As such, it's worth knowing what the headline statistic — the annual growth rate in real GDP — represents. Let's take a closer look at how to calculate this rate. Image source: Getty Images.

Real GDP is often considered the most important ... Experts use three main approaches to calculate GDP, which ideally should all lead to roughly the same number: 1. The Production (or Output ...

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis last week released its “advance estimate” of U.S. Gross Domestic ...

Each state's GDP compares to that of another country in the world.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, real GDP decreased at an annual rate of 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025. Click to read.

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It isn’t a statistical artifact but a warning of a real slowdown.

“The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending,” said the ...

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"GDP is backward-looking but there was some good news as real final sales to private domestic purchasers, the engine of the economy, posted a decent gain," Oxford Economics' chief US economist ...