Bureau of Economic Analysis
GDP (Advance Estimate), 4th Quarter and Year 2025 and Personal Income and Outlays, December 2025
GDP (Advance Estimate), 4th Quarter and Year 2025
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 (October, November, and December), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 4.4 percent. The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter were increases in consumer spending and investment. These movements were partly offset by decreases in government spending and exports. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.
Personal Income and Outlays, December 2025
Personal income increased $86.2 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in December, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $75.7 billion (0.3 percent), and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $91.0 billion (0.4 percent). Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $90.2 billion in December. Personal saving was $830.8 billion in December, and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 3.6 percent.
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U.S. Current-Account Deficit Decreases in Fourth Quarter 2015
The U.S. current-account deficit—a net measure of transactions between the United States and the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income (investment income and compensation), and secondary income (current transfers)—decreased to $125.3 billion (preliminary) in the fourth quarter of 2015 from $129.9 billion (revised) in the third quarter of 2015. As a percentage of U.S. GDP, the deficit decreased to 2.8 percent from 2.9 percent.…
U.S. International Transactions, 4th quarter and Year 2015
Current Account The U.S. current-account deficit—a net measure of transactions between the United States and the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income (investment income and compensation), and secondary income (current transfers)—decreased to $125.3 billion (preliminary) in the fourth quarter of 2015 from $129.9 billion (revised) in the third quarter. The deficit decreased to 2.8…
Travel and Tourism Spending Decelerated in Fourth Quarter of 2015
Inflation adjusted spending (or output) on travel and tourism decelerated in the fourth quarter of last year, increasing at an annual rate of 1.7 percent, after rising 4.5 percent in the third quarter.
For comparison, inflation-adjusted — or real — gross domestic product also decelerated during the same period, increasing 1.0 percent in the fourth quarter, after rising 2.0 percent.
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Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts, 4th quarter 2015
Real spending (output) on travel and tourism decelerated in the fourth quarter of 2015, increasing at an annual rate of 1.7 percent after increasing 4.5 percent (revised) in the third quarter of 2015. Real gross domestic product (GDP) also decelerated, increasing 1.0 percent in the fourth quarter (second estimate) after increasing 2.0 percent. For the year, travel and tourism spending grew 4.4 percent after increasing 3.1 percent in 2014.
January 2016 Trade Gap is $45.7 Billion
The U.S. monthly international trade deficit increased in January 2016 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit increased from $44.7 billion in December (revised) to $45.7 billion in January, as exports decreased more than imports. The previously published December deficit was $43.4 billion. The goods deficit increased $1.1 billion from December to $63.7 billion in January. The services…
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, January 2016
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Retail Trade Led Growth Across States in the Third Quarter
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 47 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2015, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Overall, U.S. real GDP by state growth slowed to an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2015 after increasing 3.8 percent in the second quarter. Retail trade; health care and social assistance; and…
Gross Domestic Product by State, 3rd quarter 2015
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 47 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2015, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Overall, U.S. real GDP by state growth slowed to an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2015 after increasing 3.8 percent in the second quarter. Retail trade; health care and social assistance; and…
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