The US economy expanded an annualized 1.6% in Q1 2024, compared to 3.4% in the previous quarter and below forecasts of 2.5%. It was the lowest growth since the contractions in the first half of 2022, the advance estimate showed. A slowdown was seen for consumer spending (2.5% vs 3.3%), mainly due to a fall in goods consumption (-0.4% vs 3%) while spending on services rose faster (4% vs 3.4%). Non-residential investment also eased (2.9% vs 3.7%), due to structures (-0.1% vs 10.9%) while investment in equipment rebounded (2.1% vs -1.1%) and the one on intellectual property products (5.4% vs 4.3%) accelerated. Looking further, government spending rose way less (1.2% vs 4.6%), and exports slowed sharply (0.9% vs 5.1%) while imports soared (7.2% vs 2.2%). Meanwhile, private inventories subtracted 0.35 pp from the growth (vs -0.47 pp). On the other hand, residential investment jumped at a double-digit pace (13.9% vs 2.8%). source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States expanded 1.60 percent in the first quarter of 2024 over the previous quarter. GDP Growth Rate in the United States averaged 3.19 percent from 1947 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 34.80 percent in the third quarter of 2020 and a record low of -28.00 percent in the second quarter of 2020. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States GDP Growth Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States GDP Growth Rate - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2024.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States expanded 1.60 percent in the first quarter of 2024 over the previous quarter. GDP Growth Rate in the United States is expected to be 1.50 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the United States GDP Growth Rate is projected to trend around 1.80 percent in 2025, according to our econometric models.