Gross Domestic Product

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 31.4 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the “third” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The change was 0.3 percentage point higher than the “second” estimate released in August. In the first quarter of 2020, real GDP decreased 5.0 percent. For more details, including source data, see the Technical Note.

Second-quarter GDP highlights

The Bureau of Economic Analysis on Monday released prototype annual estimates of gross domestic product for Puerto Rico for 2012 to 2018. This release represents another major step by the Bureau to develop comprehensive economic accounts for Puerto Rico that are consistent with international guidelines and that are directly comparable to data for other states and countries.

In conjunction with this release, BEA is requesting feedback to refine the data sources and methods used to prepare these statistics.

BEA will release – for the first time – prototype statistics showing gross domestic product and its components for Puerto Rico at 11 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, September 28.

The prototype GDP statistics in the report will cover the years 2012-2018 and will include the components of GDP: consumer spending, private fixed investment, private inventory investment, imports and exports, and government spending.

BEA is speeding up by weeks the release of industry and state statistics that will provide a powerful tool for analyzing the second quarter’s rapid shifts in U.S. economic activity.

For the first time, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will issue its industry-by-industry breakdown of U.S. gross domestic product alongside the quarter’s third estimate of GDP on Sept. 30. Statistics measuring the GDP of each state and the District of Columbia will follow two days later, on Oct. 2.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 31.7 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The change was 1.2 percentage points higher than the “advance” estimate released in July. In the first quarter of 2020, real GDP decreased 5.0 percent. For more details, including source data, see the Technical Note.

Second-quarter GDP highlight

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter of 2020, real GDP decreased 5.0 percent. For more information, see the Technical Note.

It’s time for BEA’s annual update of gross domestic product and related statistics. That means when we publish second quarter GDP numbers July 30, we’ll also update GDP estimates for the first quarter of 2020 and the previous five years.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2020. The percent change in real GDP in the first quarter ranged from –1.3 percent in Nebraska to –8.2 percent in New York and Nevada.

Accommodation and food services; finance and insurance; and health care and social assistance industries were the leading contributors to the 5.0 percent (annual rate) decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2020.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased 5.0 percent in the first quarter of 2020, according to the “third” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The decline is the same as in the “second” estimate released in May. In the fourth quarter of 2019, real GDP increased 2.1 percent. For more information, see the Technical Note.