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Economic Growth (GDP)
What Gross Domestic Product measures, why its growth rate matters, and a small set of verified, dated figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis's own public releases.
Not a live feed or an automated dataset
BEA’s programmatic API requires a free-registration API key — obtaining one is a credential decision for this site’s owner, not something built automatically into this page (see apps.bea.gov/API/signup). The St. Louis Fed’s FRED, which also republishes BEA’s GDP series, is not used on this site for GDP either — FRED’s own terms restrict commercial display, caching/storage, and AI/ML-development use (see docs/DATA-SOURCES.md for the full citation). The figures below are instead direct, dated citations to BEA’s own public press release pages — a federal government work, public domain, reachable with no key or registration at all — reviewed periodically, not fetched automatically on a schedule.
What GDP growth measures
Gross Domestic Product is the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in the U.S. economy. BEA reports its growth as a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) — the pace the economy would grow over a full year if the quarter’s pace continued, not the actual quarter-over-quarter change. Each quarter gets three successive estimates (Advance, Second, Third) as BEA incorporates more complete source data; an early “Advance” estimate can be revised in the following two releases.
Verified, dated figures
Each figure below is a direct quote/citation from BEA’s own named, dated press release — not an estimate, not an average, not a projection.
- Q3 2026 (Advance Estimate): real GDP grew at an annualized rate of +3.4% (released October 29, 2026). Source: BEA, "GDP (Advance Estimate), 3rd Quarter 2026", released October 29, 2026.
- Q2 2026: real GDP grew at an annualized rate of +2.2% (released August 26, 2026). Source: BEA, "GDP (Advance Estimate), 3rd Quarter 2026" (cites the prior quarter's figure directly: "In the second quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.").
Next scheduled release — periodically reviewed
Per BEA’s own published release schedule (checked 2026-11-01): GDP (Second Estimate) and Corporate Profits, 3rd Quarter 2026, scheduled for November 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. See BEA’s full release schedule for the complete calendar. This page is not automatically updated when that release happens — the figures above reflect what was true as of the date cited for each, and this page itself will need a human (or an agent under direct instruction) to revisit it after future releases.
Not investment advice — not a forecast
GDP growth describes the past; it is not a prediction of future market or economic performance, and nothing on this page is investment, tax, or legal advice.