US GDP Growth Rate
How fast the economy grew or shrank each quarter, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms, expressed at an annualised rate, the standard US convention.
3.4%
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Q1 1970 to Q3 2026
Source: FRED series A191RL1Q225SBEA · chained 2017 dollars, quarter-on-quarter annualised rate, seasonally adjusted (BEA).
US GDP Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the US, the GDP growth rate fell by 0.5pp over the year to Q3 2026, from 3.9% in Q3 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −1.0% in Q1 2022 to 6.8% in Q4 2021.
Its average since Q1 1970 is 2.8%, and the latest reading is above that.
The US is 23rd of 45 countries in our GDP Growth Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- BEA via FRED
- Series
- A191RL1Q225SBEA
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q3 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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