Real Gross Domestic Product

This series is moving to its original source (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis); it returns when it is read from there.

Methodology

The total value of goods and services produced in the United States, with the effect of price changes removed, in billions of chained 2017 dollars, seasonally adjusted. It is quoted at an ANNUAL RATE: the figure is what a year would total if the quarter's pace were sustained for four quarters, so it is roughly four times a single quarter's output — do not read it as the quarter's own total. The headline 'GDP growth' figure is the quarter-on-quarter change in this level, itself annualised.