United States

GDP growth, year over year

Name: GDP growth, year over year data for United States
Creator: World Bank
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GDP growth tracks how quickly inflation-adjusted output is expanding or contracting. It is the headline pace measure for business cycles, slowdowns, recoveries, and recessions.

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Source: World Bank · NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG:US

Stored official data

GDP growth, year over year - United States in United States was 2.79% on January 1, 2024, lower by 0.09% (-3.3%) from the prior observation. Charted from annual observations in %.

Latest2.79%

YoY-3.27%

10Y Avg2.49%

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

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Min-2.58%

Mean3.02%

Max7.24%

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

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Tier 1 - critical

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World Bank Open Data

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NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG:US

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Stored · 2024-01-01

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ComparabilityReal, nominal, and chain measures are not interchangeable: Use real growth for cycle analysis, nominal levels for revenue/size questions, and PPP or per-capita variants for welfare comparisons.Seasonal-adjustment status needs attention: Prefer same-adjustment comparisons, or transform to year-over-year changes before cross-series comparison.Provider comparability note: Check provider dimensions, units, and methodological notes before using this series as a model input.

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QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official multilateral.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 64 observations available; latest observation 2024-01-01; platform fetch 2026-06-15T04:14:47.655Z; release status none; data status liveRevision and vintage depth: 35/100. This provider currently exposes only the latest published values in Macro by Mark.

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CitationGDP growth, year over year - United States (World Bank Indicators: NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG, United States, retrieved Jun 15, 2026)

Retrieved Jun 15, 2026

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SourceCountry official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

CategoryEconomy & Growth

FrequencyAnnual

Unit%

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

Platform last fetchJune 15, 2026

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About this series

GDP growth (annual %)

The reading right now

As of January 2024, GDP growth, year over year for United States stood at 2.79%. That is down 0.09 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 2.44%, ranging from a low of -2.16% in January 2020 to a high of 6.06% in January 2021. The current reading sits 0.3 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 2.49%.

Computed from the observation series on this page. Numbers update when the underlying provider revises the data.