GDP and the Economy: Advance Estimates for the Fourth Quarter of 2006 and for 2006
Real GDP increased 3.4 percent after increasing 2.0 percent, reflecting a downturn in imports and accelerations in consumer spending for nondurable goods, in exports, and in Federal, state, and local government spending. In 2006, real GDP increased 3.4 percent after increasing 3.2 percent.

• Real GDP for 2006 (PDF • 149KB)

Alternative Measures of Personal Saving
In 2005, NIPA annual personal saving, at –0.4 percent of disposable personal income, was negative for the first time since 1933. Like the NIPA measure, four alternative measures show that personal saving has fallen in the last two decades, but their levels differ from the NIPA measure.

Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts for the United States
BEA and the Federal Reserve Board have developed integrated accounts that relate U.S. economic activity to changes in net worth for the major sectors of the U.S. economy.

U.S. National Income and Product Statistics: Born of the Great Depression and World War II
The initial national income and product accounts were created in the wake of two crises: The Great Depression and World War II. The story of the early accounts illustrates the scholarly debates that gave way to the compromises required to produce these accounts when they were most needed.