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GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: FOURTH QUARTER 2008 (PRELIMINARY)
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 6.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008,
(that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to preliminary estimates released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP decreased 0.5 percent.
The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available for
the advance estimates issued last month. In the advance estimates, the decrease in real GDP was 3.8
percent (see "Revisions" on page 3).
The decrease in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected negative contributions from
exports, personal consumption expenditures, equipment and software, and residential fixed investment
that were partly offset by a positive contribution from federal government spending. Imports, which are
a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.
Most of the major components contributed to the much larger decrease in real GDP in the fourth
quarter than in the third. The largest contributors were a downturn in exports and a much larger
decrease in equipment and software. The most notable offset was a much larger decrease in imports.
Final sales of computers subtracted 0.01 percentage point from the fourth-quarter change in real
GDP, the same contribution as in the third quarter. Motor vehicle output subtracted 2.04 percentage
points from the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.16 percentage point to the third-quarter
change.

NOTE.--Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise
specified. Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates. Percent
changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. “Real” estimates are in chained (2000)
dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.
This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights
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The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
decreased 4.1 percent in the fourth quarter, 0.5 percentage point less of a decrease than in the advance
estimate; this index increased 4.5 percent in the third quarter. Excluding food and energy prices, the
price index for gross domestic purchases increased 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an
increase of 2.8 percent in the third.
Real personal consumption expenditures decreased 4.3 percent in the fourth quarter, compared
with a decrease of 3.8 percent in the third. Real nonresidential fixed investment decreased 21.1 percent,
compared with a decrease of 1.7 percent. Nonresidential structures decreased 5.9 percent, in contrast to
an increase of 9.7 percent. Equipment and software decreased 28.8 percent, compared with a decrease
of 7.5 percent. Real residential fixed investment decreased 22.2 percent, compared with a decrease of
16.0 percent.
Real exports of goods and services decreased 23.6 percent in the fourth quarter, in contrast to an
increase of 3.0 percent in the third. Real imports of goods and services decreased 16.0 percent,
compared with a decrease of 3.5 percent.
Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment increased 6.7 percent in
the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 13.8 percent in the third. National defense increased
3.1 percent, compared with an increase of 18.0 percent. Nondefense increased 15.1 percent, compared
with an increase of 5.1 percent. Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross
investment decreased 1.4 percent, in contrast to an increase of 1.3 percent.
The real change in private inventories added 0.16 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in
real GDP, after adding 0.84 percentage point to the third-quarter change. Private businesses decreased
inventories $19.9 billion in the fourth quarter, following a decrease of $29.6 billion in the third quarter
and a decrease of $50.6 billion in the second.
Real final sales of domestic product -- GDP less change in private inventories -- decreased 6.4
percent in the fourth quarter, compared with a decrease of 1.3 percent in the third.

Gross domestic purchases
Real gross domestic purchases -- purchases by U.S. residents of goods and services wherever
produced -- decreased 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with a decrease of 1.5 percent in the
third.

Current-dollar GDP
Current-dollar GDP -- the market value of the nation's output of goods and services -- decreased
5.8 percent, or $212.5 billion, in the fourth quarter to a level of $14,200.3 billion. In the third quarter,
current-dollar GDP increased 3.4 percent, or $118.3 billion.

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Revisions
The preliminary estimate of the fourth-quarter change in real GDP is 2.4 percentage points, or
$74.4 billion, lower than the advance estimate issued last month. The downward revision to the percent
change in real GDP was widespread; the largest contributors were downward revisions to private
inventory investment, to exports, and to personal consumption expenditures for nondurable goods.
Advance
Preliminary
(Percent change from preceding quarter)
Real GDP...............................................
Current-dollar GDP...............................
Gross domestic purchases price index...

-3.8
-4.1
-4.6

-6.2
-5.8
-4.1

2008 GDP
Real GDP increased 1.1 percent in 2008 (that is, from the 2007 annual level to the 2008 annual
level), compared with an increase of 2.0 percent in 2007.
The major contributors to the increase in real GDP in 2008 were exports, personal consumption
expenditures (PCE) for services, federal government spending, nonresidential structures, and state and
local government spending. These were partly offset by negative contributions from residential fixed
investment, PCE for goods, private inventory investment, and equipment and software. Imports, which
are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.
The slowdown in real GDP in 2008 primarily reflected a sharp deceleration in PCE, a downturn in
equipment and software, and decelerations in exports and in state and local government spending that
were partly offset by a sharp downturn in imports, an acceleration in federal government spending, and a
smaller decrease in private inventory investment.
The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 3.2 percent in 2008, compared with an
increase of 2.8 percent in 2007.
Current-dollar GDP increased 3.3 percent, or $457.0 billion, in 2008. Current-dollar GDP
increased 4.8 percent, or $629.2 billion, in 2007.
During 2008 (that is, measured from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter 2008), real
GDP decreased 0.8 percent. Real GDP increased 2.3 percent during 2007. The price index for gross
domestic purchases increased 2.0 percent during 2008, compared with an increase of 3.3 percent during
2007.

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Next release -- March 26, 2009, at 8:30 A.M. EDT for:
Gross Domestic Product: Fourth Quarter 2008 (Final)
Corporate Profits: Fourth Quarter 2008

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Table 1. Real Gross Domestic Product and Related Measures: Percent Change From Preceding Period
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2006

2007

2008

r

2005
I

II

2006
III

IV

I

II

2007
III

IV

I

II

2008
III

IV

I

II

III r

IV r

Gross domestic product (GDP)................
2.8
2.0
1.1
3.0
2.6
3.8
1.3
4.8
2.7
0.8
1.5
0.1
4.8
4.8 –0.2
0.9
2.8 –0.5 –6.2
Personal consumption expenditures..................
3.0
2.8
0.2
1.7
3.6
3.7
1.4
4.3
2.8
2.2
3.7
3.9
2.0
2.0
1.0
0.9
1.2 –3.8 –4.3
Durable goods ....................................................
4.5
4.8 –4.3
0.6 12.1
5.4 –11.7 18.9
1.8
3.5
4.2
9.2
5.0
2.3
0.4 –4.3 –2.8 –14.8 –22.1
Nondurable goods ..............................................
3.7
2.5 –0.6
2.4
4.2
3.0
4.7
4.4
3.1
2.3
3.1
3.5
1.9
1.2
0.3 –0.4
3.9 –7.1 –9.2
Services..............................................................
2.5
2.6
1.5
1.7
1.7
3.8
2.5
1.6
2.8
2.0
3.9
3.1
1.4
2.4
1.4
2.4
0.7 –0.1
1.4
Gross private domestic investment ....................
2.1 –5.4 –6.5
9.1 –5.1
4.0 12.2
6.2 –0.4 –5.3 –15.0 –9.6
6.2
3.5 –11.9 –5.8 –11.5
0.4 –20.8
Fixed investment .................................................
1.9 –3.1 –4.9
5.3
7.6
5.3
2.3
8.3 –2.5 –4.8 –7.6 –3.4
3.0 –0.9 –6.2 –5.6 –1.7 –5.3 –21.3
Nonresidential .................................................
7.5
4.9
1.7
3.7
6.3
6.1
3.7 15.9
6.4
5.3 –1.0
3.4 10.3
8.7
3.4
2.4
2.5 –1.7 –21.1
Structures....................................................
8.2 12.7 11.5
7.5 –1.3 –9.2
1.9 15.6 19.7 14.3
2.5 11.2 18.3 20.5
8.5
8.6 18.5
9.7 –5.9
Equipment and software .............................
7.2
1.7 –3.0
2.3
9.2 12.2
4.4 16.3
1.7
2.0 –2.4
0.0
6.9
3.6
1.0 –0.6 –5.0 –7.5 –28.8
Residential ......................................................
–7.1 –17.9 –20.7
8.1
9.7
4.0
0.2 –3.6 –16.6 –21.4 –19.5 –16.2 –11.5 –20.6 –27.0 –25.1 –13.3 –16.0 –22.2
Change in private inventories ............................. ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ...........
Net exports of goods and services..................... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ........... .......... ...........
Exports ...............................................................
9.1
8.4
6.2
8.1
8.8
0.4 10.9 16.7
5.5
3.5 15.6
0.6
8.8 23.0
4.4
5.1 12.3
3.0 –23.6
Goods .............................................................
9.9
7.5
5.8
7.1 14.5 –0.8 13.2 18.1
6.7
3.6 10.4
2.1
6.9 21.8
5.1
4.5 16.3
3.7 –33.6
Services ..........................................................
7.2 10.5
6.9 10.2 –2.8
3.2
5.7 13.4
2.7
3.2 28.6 –2.7 13.3 25.9
2.7
6.4
3.8
1.4
3.5
Imports................................................................
6.0
2.2 –3.3
3.2
0.6
0.8 15.3 10.3
0.1
3.1
2.0
7.7 –3.7
3.0 –2.3 –0.8 –7.3 –3.5 –16.0
Goods .............................................................
6.0
1.7 –4.1
5.0
0.7
1.1 17.0
9.0
0.5
3.8 –0.8
8.4 –4.0
2.4 –2.6 –2.0 –7.1 –4.7 –19.4
Services ..........................................................
6.0
4.4
0.8 –5.7
0.0 –1.0
6.8 17.7 –2.0 –0.3 18.4
4.2 –2.0
6.3 –0.9
5.5 –8.0
3.3
2.7
Government consumption expenditures and
gross investment ..............................................
1.7
2.1
2.9 –0.2
0.9
3.4 –1.7
3.9
1.2
1.7
1.6
0.9
3.9
3.8
0.8
1.9
3.9
5.8
1.6
Federal................................................................
2.3
1.6
6.0
1.1
1.1
9.7 –7.2 10.0 –1.5
1.9
1.8 –3.6
6.7
7.2 –0.5
5.8
6.6 13.8
6.7
National defense .............................................
1.6
2.5
7.2
3.1
4.0 12.3 –14.2
8.8
1.9 –0.9
7.0 –5.9
8.5 10.2 –0.9
7.3
7.3 18.0
3.1
Nondefense.....................................................
3.6 –0.2
3.6 –2.7 –4.5
4.4
8.9 12.4 –8.1
7.7 –8.1
1.2
3.1
1.2
0.4
2.9
5.0
5.1 15.1
State and local ....................................................
1.3
2.3
1.2 –1.0
0.8 –0.1
1.6
0.5
2.9
1.6
1.5
3.6
2.4
1.9
1.6 –0.3
2.5
1.3 –1.4
Addenda:
Final sales of domestic product ..........................
2.8
2.4
1.4
2.3
4.8
4.1 –0.3
5.1
2.3
0.9
2.9
1.1
4.3
4.0
0.8
0.9
4.4 –1.3 –6.4
Gross domestic purchases .................................
2.6
1.4 –0.2
2.5
1.7
3.7
2.5
4.5
2.0
0.9
0.2
1.2
2.9
2.6 –1.0
0.1 –0.1 –1.5 –5.6
Final sales to domestic purchasers ....................
2.6
1.8
0.0
1.9
3.7
3.9
1.0
4.8
1.6
1.0
1.5
2.2
2.5
1.9 –0.1
0.1
1.3 –2.3 –5.7
Gross national product (GNP) ............................
2.6
2.2 ...........
4.7
2.2
4.1
0.4
4.9
2.8
0.2
2.0 –0.3
4.4
6.3
1.3
0.1
2.1 –0.2 ...........
Disposable personal income...............................
3.5
2.8
1.3 –4.7
2.5 –1.3
7.5
5.1
1.3
2.3
5.8
4.4 –0.6
3.1
0.6 –0.7 10.7 –8.5
3.4
Current-dollar measures:
GDP ................................................................
6.1
4.8
3.3
7.1
4.8
8.1
5.1
8.6
5.5
3.6
3.7
4.3
6.9
6.3
2.3
3.5
4.1
3.4 –5.8
Final sales of domestic product ......................
6.1
5.2
3.6
6.5
7.0
8.4
3.5
8.8
5.1
3.7
5.2
5.3
6.4
5.6
3.6
3.6
5.6
2.6 –6.2
Gross domestic purchases .............................
6.1
4.2
2.9
6.3
4.8
9.1
6.5
7.5
5.7
3.8
0.7
5.0
6.4
4.9
2.6
3.5
4.3
2.9 –9.4
Final sales to domestic purchasers.................
6.1
4.6
3.2
5.7
6.9
9.4
5.0
7.8
5.3
3.9
2.1
5.9
5.9
4.2
3.9
3.7
5.7
2.2 –9.8
GNP ................................................................
5.9
4.9 ...........
8.8
4.4
8.4
4.2
8.7
5.6
3.0
4.1
4.0
6.4
7.9
3.9
2.6
3.4
3.7 ...........
Disposable personal income ...........................
6.4
5.5
4.7 –2.4
5.1
3.4 11.1
6.9
4.6
5.4
5.3
7.9
3.0
5.7
4.9
2.9 15.4 –3.9 –1.8
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the third quarter of 2008.
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

Table 2. Contributions to Percent Change in Real Gross Domestic Product
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2006

2007

2008

r

2005
I

Percent change at annual rate:
Gross domestic product ...............................
Percentage points at annual rates:
Personal consumption expenditures...............
Durable goods................................................
Motor vehicles and parts..............................
Furniture and household equipment ............
Other ............................................................
Nondurable goods .........................................
Food .............................................................
Clothing and shoes ......................................
Gasoline, fuel oil, and other energy goods...
Other ............................................................
Services..........................................................
Housing........................................................
Household operation....................................
Electricity and gas ....................................
Other household operation.......................
Transportation ..............................................
Medical care.................................................
Recreation....................................................
Other ............................................................
Gross private domestic investment .................
Fixed investment............................................
Nonresidential ..............................................
Structures.................................................
Equipment and software ..........................
Information processing equipment and
software ............................................
Computers and peripheral
equipment .....................................
Software............................................
Other.................................................
Industrial equipment .............................
Transportation equipment.....................
Other equipment...................................
Residential ...................................................
Change in private inventories.......................
Farm.............................................................
Nonfarm .......................................................
Net exports of goods and services..................
Exports ...........................................................
Goods ..........................................................
Services .......................................................
Imports ...........................................................
Goods ..........................................................
Services .......................................................
Government consumption expenditures and
gross investment ...........................................
Federal ............................................................
National defense ..........................................
Consumption expenditures.......................
Gross investment .....................................
Nondefense..................................................
Consumption expenditures.......................
Gross investment .....................................
State and local ...............................................
Consumption expenditures.......................
Gross investment .....................................
Addenda:
Goods ..............................................................
Services...........................................................
Structures ........................................................
Motor vehicle output ........................................
Final sales of computers..................................
r Revised
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

2.8

2.0

1.1

2.13
0.36
–0.09
0.35
0.10
0.74
0.38
0.16
–0.05
0.25
1.02
0.34
–0.02
–0.05
0.03
0.05
0.31
0.09
0.24
0.35
0.32
0.77
0.23
0.54

1.95
0.38
0.07
0.24
0.08
0.50
0.18
0.13
0.02
0.17
1.07
0.16
0.07
0.03
0.04
0.05
0.35
0.13
0.31
–0.90
–0.50
0.52
0.40
0.13

0.16
–0.33
–0.42
0.10
–0.01
–0.13
–0.02
0.01
–0.14
0.02
0.61
0.10
–0.01
–0.04
0.03
–0.02
0.42
–0.02
0.15
–0.99
–0.75
0.18
0.40
–0.22

0.32

0.34

0.17

0.15
0.06
0.11
0.07
0.09
0.05
–0.45
0.03
–0.03
0.06
–0.02
0.96
0.73
0.23
–0.98
–0.82
–0.16

0.11
0.15
0.08
0.02
–0.17
–0.07
–1.02
–0.40
0.04
–0.44
0.58
0.95
0.59
0.36
–0.37
–0.25
–0.12

0.05
0.07
0.05
–0.06
–0.32
–0.02
–0.93
–0.24
0.02
–0.26
1.38
0.76
0.49
0.26
0.62
0.64
–0.02

0.32
0.16
0.08
0.04
0.04
0.08
0.05
0.03
0.16
0.16
0.00

0.40
0.11
0.12
0.11
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.28
0.20
0.09

1.67
1.35
–0.24
–0.03
0.15

0.97
1.61
–0.55
–0.03
0.13

II
3.0

2.6

2006
III
3.8

1.25
2.50 2.59
0.04
0.95 0.44
–0.32 0.53 0.15
0.26
0.29 0.37
0.11
0.13 –0.08
0.49
0.83 0.59
0.32
0.29 0.45
0.15
0.27 0.00
–0.09 0.09 0.02
0.12
0.17 0.11
0.72
0.72 1.55
0.34
0.36 0.39
0.01
0.02 0.15
0.03
0.00 0.12
–0.02 0.01 0.04
0.02
0.02 0.02
0.31
0.37 0.48
0.08
0.02 0.04
–0.03 –0.08 0.46
1.48 –0.86 0.69
0.85
1.21 0.88
0.37
0.64 0.64
0.19 –0.04 –0.26
0.18
0.68 0.90
0.23

0.31

0.36

IV
1.3

I

II

2007
III

IV

I

II

2008
III

IV

I

II

III

IV r

4.8

2.7

0.8

1.5

0.1

4.8

4.8

–0.2

0.9

2.8

–0.5

–6.2

0.94 2.86
–1.02 1.37
–1.59 0.53
0.41 0.55
0.17
0.29
0.93 0.85
0.37 0.50
0.35 0.18
–0.04 –0.17
0.25 0.33
1.02 0.64
0.35 0.37
–0.01 –0.42
–0.04 –0.42
0.03 0.01
0.01 0.08
0.39 0.37
0.04 0.08
0.24 0.16
1.98 1.15
0.41 1.39
0.40 1.62
0.05 0.42
0.35 1.20

1.88
0.14
0.06
0.15
–0.06
0.62
0.43
0.02
–0.11
0.27
1.12
0.31
0.26
0.20
0.06
0.08
0.15
0.04
0.27
–0.02
–0.40
0.71
0.54
0.16

1.52
0.27
0.06
0.20
0.00
0.46
0.10
0.14
0.03
0.19
0.79
0.25
0.10
0.05
0.05
0.03
0.07
0.18
0.15
–0.92
–0.81
0.59
0.42
0.17

2.55
0.33
0.01
0.23
0.09
0.62
0.20
0.12
0.03
0.26
1.61
0.22
0.03
–0.01
0.04
0.10
0.35
0.36
0.55
–2.68
–1.27
–0.09
0.08
–0.18

2.71
0.71
0.30
0.34
0.07
0.71
0.12
0.25
0.13
0.22
1.29
0.12
0.08
0.07
0.00
0.03
0.63
0.06
0.37
–1.63
–0.57
0.33
0.35
–0.02

1.42
0.40
0.05
0.17
0.17
0.40
0.27
0.08
–0.07
0.12
0.62
0.09
0.02
–0.04
0.06
0.04
0.13
0.08
0.27
0.94
0.47
1.07
0.57
0.50

1.44
0.19
–0.22
0.26
0.15
0.25
0.03
0.12
–0.01
0.11
1.00
0.08
0.06
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.45
0.07
0.28
0.54
–0.15
0.91
0.65
0.26

0.67
0.03
–0.03
0.11
–0.06
0.05
0.27
–0.09
–0.05
–0.08
0.59
0.12
0.09
0.01
0.08
–0.02
0.48
–0.01
–0.08
–1.93
–0.97
0.36
0.29
0.07

0.61
–0.33
–0.35
0.05
–0.04
–0.08
0.13
0.08
–0.18
–0.10
1.02
0.05
0.07
0.11
–0.05
0.04
0.59
–0.14
0.40
–0.89
–0.86
0.26
0.30
–0.04

0.87
–0.21
–0.64
0.39
0.04
0.80
0.40
0.28
–0.20
0.33
0.28
0.18
–0.17
–0.19
0.02
–0.08
0.35
0.04
–0.03
–1.74
–0.25
0.27
0.64
–0.37

–2.75
–1.16
–0.83
–0.25
–0.08
–1.57
–0.75
–0.38
–0.45
0.01
–0.03
0.08
–0.33
–0.38
0.05
–0.06
0.31
–0.04
0.02
0.06
–0.79
–0.19
0.36
–0.55

–3.01
–1.67
–1.13
–0.25
–0.30
–1.95
–1.53
–0.25
0.28
–0.44
0.61
0.04
0.27
0.21
0.05
–0.15
0.23
0.01
0.21
–3.11
–3.26
–2.48
–0.24
–2.24

0.31

0.61

0.15

0.34

0.04

0.57

0.41

0.37

0.27

0.30

–0.16

–0.97

–0.06 0.12 0.09
0.07
0.16 0.04
0.22
0.03 0.23
0.12 –0.04 0.19
–0.20 0.24 0.31
0.04
0.17 0.04
0.48
0.57 0.25
0.63 –2.07 –0.19
–0.22 0.14 0.19
0.85 –2.20 –0.39
0.28
0.79 –0.07
0.80
0.89 0.04
0.49
0.98 –0.06
0.31 –0.09 0.10
–0.52 –0.10 –0.11
–0.67 –0.10 –0.14
0.15
0.00 0.03

0.22 0.16
0.10 0.03
0.02 0.41
0.19 –0.07
–0.24 0.52
0.07 0.15
0.01 –0.23
1.56 –0.24
–0.15 0.02
1.71 –0.26
–1.26 0.09
1.09 1.70
0.91 1.27
0.18 0.42
–2.35 –1.61
–2.18 –1.18
–0.17 –0.43

0.17
0.02
–0.04
0.25
–0.25
0.02
–1.11
0.38
–0.24
0.62
0.59
0.58
0.49
0.09
0.01
–0.04
0.05

0.13
0.07
0.14
–0.12
0.06
–0.12
–1.40
–0.11
0.00
–0.12
–0.12
0.39
0.28
0.11
–0.51
–0.51
0.01

0.02
0.14
–0.11
–0.02
–0.15
–0.05
–1.18
–1.41
0.12
–1.52
1.33
1.66
0.78
0.87
–0.33
0.13
–0.46

0.17
0.21
0.19
–0.10
–0.21
–0.28
–0.91
–1.06
–0.07
–0.99
–1.20
0.06
0.15
–0.09
–1.25
–1.14
–0.11

0.09
0.22
0.09
0.34
–0.32
0.07
–0.60
0.47
0.14
0.33
1.66
1.01
0.55
0.46
0.65
0.59
0.06

0.12 0.12
0.10 0.16
0.09 0.10
–0.04 –0.20
–0.07 –0.18
0.06 0.08
–1.06 –1.33
0.69 –0.96
–0.08 0.47
0.77 –1.43
2.03 0.94
2.54 0.53
1.66 0.43
0.88 0.10
–0.51 0.40
–0.34 0.38
–0.17 0.02

0.10
0.16
0.00
0.01
–0.16
–0.16
–1.12
–0.02
–0.17
0.15
0.77
0.63
0.39
0.24
0.14
0.29
–0.15

0.08
0.04
0.18
–0.05
–0.58
–0.04
–0.52
–1.50
–0.14
–1.36
2.93
1.54
1.39
0.15
1.39
1.14
0.25

–0.16
–0.08
0.08
–0.12
–0.47
0.20
–0.60
0.84
0.01
0.83
1.05
0.40
0.34
0.06
0.65
0.74
–0.09

–0.26
–0.29
–0.42
–0.21
–0.76
–0.31
–0.78
0.16
0.05
0.10
–0.46
–3.44
–3.58
0.14
2.99
3.06
–0.08

0.57
0.43
0.35
0.27
0.08
0.08
0.06
0.02
0.14
0.13
0.01

–0.04
0.08
0.14
0.22
–0.08
–0.07
–0.03
–0.03
–0.12
–0.13
0.01

–0.34 0.72
–0.53 0.66
–0.73 0.39
–0.70 0.40
–0.02 –0.01
0.20 0.27
0.10 0.22
0.10 0.05
0.19 0.06
0.09 0.23
0.10 –0.18

0.23
–0.11
0.09
–0.02
0.11
–0.20
–0.14
–0.07
0.34
0.16
0.18

0.32
0.13
–0.04
0.00
–0.05
0.17
0.15
0.03
0.19
0.24
–0.05

0.30
0.12
0.32
0.14
0.18
–0.20
–0.20
0.01
0.18
0.23
–0.06

0.17
–0.26
–0.29
–0.08
–0.21
0.03
0.06
–0.04
0.43
0.20
0.24

0.77
0.47
0.40
0.28
0.12
0.07
0.02
0.05
0.30
0.17
0.13

0.75 0.16
0.51 –0.04
0.48 –0.04
0.45 –0.06
0.03 0.02
0.03 0.01
0.03 –0.02
–0.01 0.02
0.24 0.19
0.15 0.15
0.09 0.04

0.38
0.41
0.34
0.31
0.04
0.06
0.06
0.01
–0.03
0.14
–0.18

0.78
0.47
0.36
0.15
0.21
0.11
0.08
0.03
0.31
0.12
0.19

1.14
0.97
0.85
0.72
0.14
0.12
0.11
0.00
0.17
0.11
0.06

0.32
0.50
0.16
0.16
0.01
0.34
0.21
0.13
–0.18
0.00
–0.17

0.31
1.31
–0.50
–0.50
0.12

1.12
1.24
0.62
0.15
0.06

0.65
0.52
0.15
–1.22
0.21

1.84
1.26
–0.42
–0.34
0.15

0.51
1.29
–1.00
0.40
0.04

0.42
2.19
–1.10
–0.65
0.20

–0.80
1.26
–0.41
0.10
–0.03

3.08
1.61
0.09
0.13
0.21

2.71
2.35
–0.30
0.47
0.28

0.29
1.62
–1.03
–0.41
0.05

1.49
1.02
0.32
–1.01
0.17

–1.29
0.87
–0.09
0.16
–0.01

–6.18
1.04
–1.11
–2.04
–0.01

0.17 0.65
0.08 0.66
0.18 0.56
0.06 0.45
0.12 0.11
–0.11 0.10
–0.12 0.03
0.01 0.07
0.10 –0.01
0.02 0.06
0.08 –0.07
1.49
0.59
0.54
0.24
0.22

1.68
2.23
–0.06
0.76
0.07

0.33

3.40
1.48
–0.07
0.59
0.16

0.01
0.79
–0.97
–0.86
0.14

Table 3. Gross Domestic Product and Related Measures: Level and Change From Preceding Period
Billions of current dollars

Billions of chained (2000) dollars

Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2008 r

2007
IV

Gross domestic product ..................................
Personal consumption expenditures .....................
Durable goods ......................................................
Motor vehicles and parts.....................................
Furniture and household equipment...................
Other...................................................................
Nondurable goods................................................
Food....................................................................
Clothing and shoes .............................................
Gasoline, fuel oil, and other energy goods .........
Other...................................................................
Services.................................................................
Housing...............................................................
Household operation...........................................
Electricity and gas...........................................
Other household operation .............................
Transportation .....................................................
Medical care .......................................................
Recreation ..........................................................
Other...................................................................
Gross private domestic investment........................
Fixed investment ..................................................
Nonresidential.....................................................
Structures........................................................
Equipment and software .................................
Information processing equipment and
software ...................................................
Computers and peripheral equipment .....
Software ..................................................
Other .......................................................
Industrial equipment....................................
Transportation equipment............................
Other equipment .........................................
Residential ..........................................................
Change in private inventories .............................
Farm ...................................................................
Nonfarm ..............................................................
Net exports of goods and services ........................
Exports ..................................................................
Goods .................................................................
Services..............................................................
Imports ..................................................................
Goods .................................................................
Services..............................................................
Government consumption expenditures and
gross investment ..................................................
Federal...................................................................
National defense.................................................
Consumption expenditures .............................
Gross investment ............................................
Nondefense ........................................................
Consumption expenditures .............................
Gross investment ............................................
State and local ......................................................
Consumption expenditures .............................
Gross investment ............................................
Residual .....................................................................
Addenda:
Final sales of domestic product ..............................
Gross domestic purchases .....................................
Final sales to domestic purchasers ........................
Gross domestic product ......................................
Plus: Income receipts from the rest of the world ....
Less: Income payments to the rest of the world .....
Equals: Gross national product ..........................

2008 r

2008
I

II

III

Change from preceding
period

Seasonally adjusted at annual rates

IV

r

2007
IV

2008
I

II

III

IV

r

14,264.6 14,031.2 14,150.8 14,294.5 14,412.8 14,200.3 11,652.7 11,620.7 11,646.0 11,727.4 11,712.4 11,525.0
10,056.8 9,892.7 10,002.3 10,138.0 10,163.5 9,923.5 8,272.0 8,298.2 8,316.1 8,341.3 8,260.6 8,169.9
1,023.2 1,083.0 1,071.0 1,059.3 1,016.2
946.3 1,188.5 1,250.6 1,237.0 1,228.3 1,180.1 1,108.6
379.9
437.8
424.7
400.6
370.7
323.7
387.2
442.6
430.2
407.2
376.9
334.5
411.7
415.3
415.1
423.0
411.2
397.6
614.4
606.6
609.3
629.6
616.2
602.5
231.6
229.9
231.3
235.7
234.3
225.0
226.5
230.8
229.4
230.8
228.1
217.6
2,965.2 2,906.2 2,950.7 3,026.2 3,044.6 2,839.3 2,378.6 2,400.2 2,397.9 2,420.7 2,376.3 2,319.4
1,399.2 1,359.8 1,380.5 1,416.3 1,418.4 1,381.4 1,109.3 1,118.7 1,122.4 1,133.6 1,112.3 1,068.8
373.6
373.2
375.5
382.4
374.4
361.9
414.4
413.2
416.3
427.2
412.2
402.1
412.1
405.3
423.7
441.8
463.6
319.2
189.4
197.0
194.0
190.8
184.1
188.8
780.4
767.9
771.1
785.7
788.2
776.8
689.2
687.9
684.8
695.1
695.5
681.3
6,068.4 5,903.5 5,980.6 6,052.5 6,102.7 6,137.9 4,714.0 4,676.1 4,704.3 4,712.1 4,711.3 4,728.1
1,513.7 1,482.7 1,495.1 1,508.8 1,520.9 1,529.8 1,182.4 1,175.9 1,177.3 1,182.3 1,184.5 1,185.6
552.7
534.3
541.7
554.5
555.8
558.7
419.8
424.0
425.9
421.3
412.4
419.5
231.8
221.1
228.1
236.3
231.9
230.7
147.7
151.2
154.0
149.6
141.2
145.9
320.9
313.2
313.6
318.1
323.9
328.0
274.1
273.9
272.5
273.2
274.6
276.2
373.3
362.9
368.8
372.9
376.8
374.5
297.5
299.9
301.2
298.9
297.2
292.9
1,779.6 1,721.9 1,746.6 1,769.3 1,792.9 1,809.7 1,373.7 1,344.5 1,360.8 1,370.3 1,378.9 1,385.1
413.0
409.7
408.2
412.3
415.8
415.5
332.6
336.3
332.3
333.4
332.1
332.5
1,436.2 1,392.0 1,420.2 1,434.6 1,440.4 1,449.6 1,106.0 1,093.9 1,105.0 1,104.0 1,104.6 1,110.4
1,995.7 2,092.3 2,056.1 2,000.9 2,010.9 1,915.1 1,691.9 1,781.3 1,754.7 1,702.0 1,703.7 1,607.3
2,041.4 2,113.4 2,081.7 2,077.0 2,060.6 1,946.3 1,719.7 1,788.2 1,762.4 1,754.9 1,731.1 1,630.3
1,553.5 1,542.1 1,553.6 1,571.9 1,581.2 1,507.4 1,406.1 1,414.7 1,423.1 1,431.8 1,425.7 1,343.9
554.7
508.7
522.7
549.8
572.4
573.7
339.6
319.7
326.4
340.5
348.4
343.1
998.9 1,033.4 1,030.9 1,022.1 1,008.8
933.7 1,046.4 1,090.1 1,088.6 1,074.7 1,054.0
968.2
535.4
89.9
239.9
205.6
180.6
112.1
170.8
487.9
–45.6
–2.4
–43.2
–670.8
1,860.8
1,283.1
577.7
2,531.6
2,115.7
416.0

532.5
95.7
235.6
201.2
179.9
148.4
172.6
571.3
–21.1
5.7
–26.7
–696.7
1,759.7
1,213.7
546.0
2,456.5
2,060.9
395.6

539.6
95.8
241.8
202.0
182.0
142.1
167.3
528.1
–25.6
0.2
–25.8
–705.7
1,820.8
1,256.9
563.9
2,526.5
2,118.0
408.5

550.9
96.8
244.6
209.5
183.2
121.4
166.5
505.0
–76.0
–4.1
–71.9
–718.2
1,923.2
1,343.7
579.5
2,641.4
2,225.5
415.9

544.5
89.2
242.5
212.9
182.2
105.5
176.6
479.4
–49.7
–4.2
–45.5
–707.7
1,968.9
1,374.3
594.6
2,676.6
2,251.0
425.6

14,052.3
14,728.0
14,749.0
14,031.2
907.4
742.0
14,196.6

14,176.4
14,856.6
14,882.2
14,150.8
843.2
705.1
14,289.0

14,370.5
15,012.7
15,088.7
14,294.5
822.8
708.9
14,408.3

14,462.5
15,120.5
15,170.2
14,412.8
815.6
688.7
14,539.6

128.8
19.2
–53.9
–59.5
20.4
–1.8
–14.0
–1.2
1.5
–8.7
1.9
67.8
10.7
–1.4
–3.4
3.2
–1.7
45.9
–2.4
16.1
–117.8
–88.8
23.2
35.0
–32.5

III

IV r

–15.0
–80.7
–48.2
–30.3
–13.4
–2.7
–44.4
–21.3
–15.0
–6.7
0.4
–0.8
2.2
–8.9
–8.4
1.4
–1.7
8.6
–1.3
0.6
1.7
–23.8
–6.1
7.9
–20.7

–187.4
–90.7
–71.5
–42.4
–13.7
–10.5
–56.9
–43.5
–10.1
4.7
–14.2
16.8
1.1
7.1
4.7
1.6
–4.3
6.2
0.4
5.8
–96.4
–100.8
–81.8
–5.3
–85.8

506.6
684.4
677.6
689.6
702.9
695.5
649.7
30.5
–7.4
–45.8
78.0 .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. ..............
230.7
247.8
245.1
251.0
252.3
249.5
238.4
10.8
–2.8
–11.1
197.9
226.1
223.5
223.6
230.6
233.6
216.6
8.1
3.0
–17.0
174.8
149.1
153.1
153.4
152.0
148.6
142.4
–6.6
–3.4
–6.2
79.5
99.6
131.9
127.0
108.6
93.6
69.2
–39.8
–15.0
–24.4
172.7
146.3
151.5
146.5
145.3
151.5
142.0
–2.1
6.2
–9.5
439.0
359.6
411.6
383.0
369.6
353.7
332.2
–94.2
–15.9
–21.5
–31.3
–27.6
–8.1
–10.2
–50.6
–29.6
–19.9
–25.1
21.0
9.7
–1.7
3.6
10.5
6.0
2.4
2.2
3.6
2.6
–0.2
1.4
–29.6
–32.8
–20.6
–17.9
–55.1
–33.3
–25.0
–29.1
21.8
8.3
–551.5 –392.3 –484.5 –462.0 –381.3 –353.1 –372.9
154.2
28.2
–19.8
1,730.5 1,514.1 1,482.1 1,500.6 1,544.7 1,556.1 1,454.8
88.2
11.4 –101.3
1,157.5 1,057.0 1,037.0 1,048.6 1,088.9 1,098.7
991.7
58.3
9.8 –107.0
573.0
456.6
444.7
451.7
455.8
457.4
461.4
29.7
1.6
4.0
2,282.0 1,906.4 1,966.5 1,962.6 1,926.0 1,909.1 1,827.6
–66.0
–16.9
–81.5
1,868.1 1,608.3 1,670.2 1,662.0 1,631.6 1,612.2 1,527.5
–69.4
–19.4
–84.7
413.9
298.8
297.8
301.8
295.5
297.9
299.9
2.4
2.4
2.0

2,882.8 2,742.9 2,798.1 2,873.7 2,946.1 2,913.2
1,071.8
998.3 1,026.5 1,056.1 1,098.0 1,106.4
734.8
679.3
699.9
723.3
759.5
756.6
639.7
594.7
613.8
629.0
659.6
656.3
95.1
84.6
86.1
94.3
99.9
100.3
337.0
319.0
326.6
332.9
338.5
349.9
292.3
276.9
284.2
289.2
294.5
301.1
44.7
42.1
42.4
43.7
44.0
48.7
1,811.0 1,744.6 1,771.6 1,817.6 1,848.1 1,806.8
1,454.3 1,395.2 1,426.3 1,462.7 1,485.7 1,442.7
356.7
349.4
345.3
354.9
362.4
364.1
.............. .............. .............. .............. .............. ..............
14,310.2
14,935.4
14,981.0
14,264.6
..............
..............
..............

2008

2008 r

14,231.6
14,751.8
14,783.0
14,200.3
..............
..............
..............

2,070.6
798.1
538.0
452.5
88.6
259.5
217.9
42.5
1,273.5
1,021.2
252.2
–161.4

2,029.4
761.7
509.9
431.9
79.9
251.5
212.0
40.2
1,267.5
1,013.9
253.4
–171.9

2,039.1
772.6
518.9
439.7
81.0
253.2
213.5
40.5
1,266.7
1,017.6
249.0
–178.7

2,058.9
785.0
528.1
443.4
87.9
256.3
215.6
41.6
1,274.4
1,020.6
253.7
–191.6

2,088.1
810.8
550.4
461.5
92.6
259.5
218.5
41.8
1,278.7
1,023.4
255.2
–162.8

11,679.8
12,038.2
12,064.7
11,652.7
..............
..............
..............

11,628.0
12,103.2
12,109.8
11,620.7
749.9
611.7
11,758.3

11,653.7
12,105.8
12,113.3
11,646.0
690.9
575.2
11,760.9

11,778.8
12,102.6
12,153.0
11,727.4
667.2
571.6
11,822.2

11,739.2
12,057.8
12,084.1
11,712.4
653.9
548.5
11,817.3

Net domestic product.............................................. 12,432.4 12,272.6 12,372.9 12,491.3 12,514.8 12,350.6 10,055.8 10,096.1 10,093.2 10,151.2 10,062.4

2,096.3
58.5
29.2
8.2
824.1
45.2
25.8
13.3
554.7
35.9
22.3
4.3
465.4
26.7
18.1
3.9
92.8
10.6
4.7
0.2
268.8
9.1
3.2
9.3
224.2
6.2
2.9
5.7
46.1
3.2
0.2
4.3
1,274.2
14.5
4.3
–4.5
1,023.3
13.2
2.8
–0.1
250.8
1.3
1.5
–4.4
–112.8 .............. .............. ..............
11,547.3
156.4
11,886.4
–28.6
11,908.3
–1.3
11,525.0
128.8
.............. ..............
.............. ..............
.............. ..............
9,916.4

29.9

–39.6 –191.9
–44.8 –171.4
–68.9 –175.8
–15.0 –187.4
–13.3 ..............
–23.1 ..............
–4.9 ..............
–88.8

–146.0

r Revised
NOTE. Users are cautioned that particularly for components that exhibit rapid change in prices relative to other prices in the economy, the chained-dollar estimates should not be used to measure the component’s relative impor­
tance or its contribution to the growth rate of more aggregate series. For accurate estimates of the contributions to percent changes in real gross domestic product, use table 2.
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

Table 4. Price Indexes for Gross Domestic Product and Related Measures: Percent Change From Preceding Period
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2006

2007 2008

r

2005
I

II

2006
III

IV

I

II

2007
III

IV

I

II

2008
III

IV

I

II

III

IV r

Gross domestic product (GDP) ...............................
3.2
2.7
2.2
4.0
2.1
4.1
3.7
3.5
2.7
2.8
2.2
4.1
2.0
1.5
2.8
2.6
1.1
3.9
0.5
Personal consumption expenditures .................................
2.8
2.6
3.3
2.5
2.5
4.7
3.3
1.8
3.3
3.1 –0.5
3.4
3.6
2.5
4.3
3.6
4.3
5.0 –5.0
Durable goods .................................................................... –1.3 –1.8 –1.2
0.4 –0.9 –3.1 –0.9 –0.9 –0.8 –1.3 –2.7 –1.8 –1.6 –1.9 –1.6 –0.1 –1.6 –0.6 –3.5
Nondurable goods ..............................................................
3.0
3.0
5.3
1.5
2.0 11.2
2.3
0.3
4.9
4.4 –6.2
5.1
6.4
2.9
8.4
6.7
6.5 10.3 –16.7
Services..............................................................................
3.5
3.3
3.2
3.3
3.5
3.3
4.7
3.0
3.3
3.3
2.8
3.6
3.3
3.1
3.5
2.8
4.2
3.4
0.9
Gross private domestic investment....................................
4.2
1.4
0.6
4.7
4.0
5.0
5.4
5.2
3.5
1.6
3.3
1.6 –0.3 –0.3
1.3 –0.5
0.4
2.0
3.7
Fixed investment.................................................................
4.2
1.4
0.6
4.7
4.2
5.3
5.7
5.0
3.4
1.5
3.2
1.6 –0.2 –0.4
1.2 –0.2
0.8
2.3
1.2
Nonresidential.................................................................
3.3
1.4
1.6
4.4
2.7
2.0
4.4
4.3
3.3
1.7
2.9
1.3
0.3 –0.6
1.7
0.6
2.3
4.2
4.6
Structures.................................................................... 12.3
3.8
3.6 11.9 10.1 14.8 17.0 14.1 12.0
4.6
6.7
3.4
0.7
0.5
4.5
2.7
3.3
7.1
7.3
Equipment and software .............................................
0.1
0.3
0.7
1.8
0.1 –2.3
0.2
0.7 –0.1
0.5
1.2
0.4
0.1 –1.2
0.4 –0.4
1.7
2.6
3.1
Residential ......................................................................
5.9
1.5 –2.4
5.2
6.8 11.0
7.8
6.4
3.7
1.2
3.9
2.2 –1.3
0.3
0.0 –2.6 –3.5 –3.3 –9.6
Change in private inventories ............................................. ......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
Net exports of goods and services .................................... ......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
Exports ...............................................................................
3.5
3.5
5.4
4.6
3.5
2.5
3.2
2.9
5.8
4.7 –0.8
3.6
5.3
3.5
6.2
9.1 10.8
6.7 –21.9
Goods .............................................................................
3.3
3.5
5.4
4.3
3.0
1.3
2.2
3.0
6.2
5.2
0.0
3.3
5.1
2.8
6.0 10.0 12.3
5.6 –24.2
Services..........................................................................
3.8
3.5
5.3
5.2
4.6
5.3
5.5
2.7
4.9
3.7 –2.6
4.3
5.9
5.2
6.6
6.9
7.5
9.3 –16.7
Imports ...............................................................................
4.3
3.7 10.4
2.3
9.7 10.3
4.5 –1.1 10.3
5.0 –9.1
0.9 12.8
7.4 12.8 12.8 28.8
9.2 –37.1
Goods .............................................................................
4.2
3.6 11.1
2.1 10.0 10.8
5.0 –2.0 10.4
5.4 –10.1
0.8 13.0
7.7 14.5 13.8 31.2
9.8 –41.1
Services..........................................................................
4.8
3.7
7.2
3.5
7.9
7.8
2.0
4.1
9.9
3.2 –3.8
1.1 11.7
6.1
4.5
7.8 16.8
6.2 –12.9
Government consumption expenditures and gross
investment.........................................................................
4.7
4.5
4.7
7.7
4.1
7.0
4.8
4.9
4.9
3.3
2.3
6.4
5.2
3.4
5.1
6.2
7.0
4.4 –5.9
Federal ...............................................................................
4.1
3.4
3.2 11.8
1.7
3.1
0.8 10.2
4.1
1.2
0.9
7.6
3.7
0.9
2.3
5.6
5.1
2.7 –3.4
National defense.............................................................
4.5
3.5
3.6 12.6
1.8
3.2
1.3 10.9
4.4
1.5
0.7
7.0
4.3
1.6
3.1
5.1
6.3
3.1 –4.5
Nondefense ....................................................................
3.4
3.1
2.6 10.2
1.6
3.0 –0.1
8.9
3.5
0.5
1.2
8.8
2.6 –0.5
0.5
6.8
2.8
1.9 –0.9
State and local....................................................................
5.1
5.1
5.6
5.3
5.6
9.4
7.3
2.0
5.4
4.6
3.2
5.7
6.1
4.9
6.8
6.6
8.1
5.5 –7.3
Addenda:
Final sales of domestic product ..........................................
3.2
2.7
2.2
4.0
2.1
4.1
3.8
3.5
2.7
2.7
2.2
4.1
2.0
1.5
2.8
2.7
1.2
4.0
0.2
Gross domestic purchases.................................................
3.4
2.8
3.2
3.7
3.1
5.2
3.9
2.9
3.6
2.9
0.6
3.6
3.3
2.2
4.0
3.5
4.2
4.5 –4.1
Final sales to domestic purchasers ....................................
3.4
2.8
3.2
3.7
3.1
5.2
4.0
2.8
3.6
2.9
0.6
3.7
3.3
2.2
4.0
3.5
4.3
4.5 –4.4
Gross national product (GNP) ............................................
3.2
2.7 ..........
4.0
2.1
4.1
3.7
3.5
2.7
2.8
2.2
4.1
2.0
1.5
2.8
2.6
1.1
3.9 ..........
Implicit price deflators:
GDP ................................................................................
3.2
2.7
2.2
4.0
2.1
4.1
3.8
3.6
2.7
2.7
2.2
4.2
2.0
1.5
2.5
2.6
1.3
3.9
0.5
Gross domestic purchases .............................................
3.4
2.8
3.1
3.7
3.1
5.2
4.0
2.9
3.6
2.9
0.6
3.7
3.3
2.2
3.7
3.4
4.4
4.4 –4.1
GNP ................................................................................
3.2
2.7 ..........
4.0
2.1
4.1
3.8
3.6
2.7
2.8
2.1
4.2
2.0
1.5
2.5
2.5
1.3
3.9 ..........
r Revised
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

Table 5. Real Gross Domestic Product, Quantity Indexes
[Index numbers, 2000=100]
Seasonally adjusted
2006

2007

2008 r

2007
IV

2008
I

II

III

IV r

Gross domestic product ....................................................................
115.054
117.388
118.699
118.374
118.631
119.460
119.308
117.399
Personal consumption expenditures...............................................................
119.135
122.456
122.741
123.130
123.395
123.770
122.572
121.226
Durable goods..................................................................................................
137.274
143.908
137.665
144.856
143.284
142.273
136.695
128.407
Nondurable goods............................................................................................
119.930
122.872
122.153
123.261
123.147
124.317
122.035
119.112
Services ...........................................................................................................
115.298
118.259
119.984
119.020
119.739
119.937
119.916
120.343
Gross private domestic investment .................................................................
110.200
104.278
97.492
102.639
101.110
98.071
98.169
92.617
Fixed investment ..............................................................................................
111.109
107.717
102.424
106.503
104.969
104.522
103.102
97.102
Nonresidential ..............................................................................................
106.987
112.244
114.126
114.819
115.504
116.212
115.714
109.074
Structures .................................................................................................
86.318
97.264
108.437
102.076
104.206
108.716
111.257
109.567
Equipment and software...........................................................................
115.467
117.412
113.877
118.636
118.470
116.961
114.709
105.368
Residential ...................................................................................................
123.728
101.534
80.469
92.110
85.698
82.692
79.154
74.331
Change in private inventories........................................................................... .................. .................. .................. .................. .................. .................. .................. ..................
Exports of goods and services ........................................................................
119.937
130.068
138.108
135.189
136.880
140.908
141.943
132.701
Imports of goods and services ........................................................................
130.815
133.654
129.178
133.254
132.991
130.509
129.367
123.844
Government consumption expenditures and gross investment...................
114.497
116.871
120.272
117.879
118.443
119.594
121.288
121.762
Federal .............................................................................................................
128.019
130.078
137.893
131.610
133.488
135.628
140.080
142.378
State and local .................................................................................................
107.642
110.167
111.436
110.914
110.844
111.517
111.891
111.493
Addenda:
Final sales of domestic product .......................................................................
115.254
118.062
119.664
119.133
119.397
120.679
120.273
118.307
Gross domestic purchases ..............................................................................
116.748
118.343
118.062
118.700
118.726
118.694
118.255
116.574
Final sales to domestic purchasers..................................................................
116.948
118.995
118.981
119.427
119.461
119.853
119.173
117.439
Gross national product.....................................................................................
115.284
117.795 ..................
119.302
119.329
119.950
119.901 ..................
r Revised
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

Table 6. Price Indexes for Gross Domestic Product
[Index numbers, 2000=100]
Seasonally adjusted
2006

2007

2008

r

2007
IV

2008
I

II

III

IV r

Gross domestic product ....................................................................
116.676
119.819
122.495
120.826
121.613
121.951
123.134
123.284
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) ....................................................
114.675
117.659
121.585
119.221
120.283
121.544
123.041
121.470
Durable goods..................................................................................................
88.772
87.154
86.071
86.598
86.581
86.237
86.110
85.357
Nondurable goods............................................................................................
114.984
118.407
124.659
121.092
123.059
125.021
128.129
122.425
Services ...........................................................................................................
120.752
124.712
128.736
126.253
127.133
128.450
129.538
129.824
Gross private domestic investment .................................................................
116.102
117.735
118.459
117.960
117.815
117.926
118.510
119.588
Fixed investment ..............................................................................................
116.380
117.995
118.723
118.189
118.117
118.353
119.037
119.384
Nonresidential ..............................................................................................
107.277
108.739
110.512
109.015
109.177
109.788
110.913
112.171
Structures .................................................................................................
151.822
157.662
163.288
159.138
160.182
161.496
164.285
167.188
Equipment and software...........................................................................
94.594
94.870
95.487
94.798
94.700
95.101
95.710
96.439
Residential ...................................................................................................
136.897
138.884
135.571
138.803
137.900
136.687
135.535
132.161
Change in private inventories........................................................................... .................. .................. .................. ................. .................. .................. .................. .................
Exports of goods and services ........................................................................
112.618
116.586
122.891
118.794
121.397
124.560
126.592
119.013
Imports of goods and services ........................................................................
115.932
120.168
132.724
124.907
128.722
137.136
140.189
124.851
Government consumption expenditures and gross investment...................
127.239
132.941
139.230
135.174
137.237
139.588
141.107
138.986
Federal .............................................................................................................
125.806
130.076
134.289
131.070
132.879
134.553
135.447
134.277
State and local .................................................................................................
128.109
134.671
142.213
137.649
139.866
142.632
144.540
141.813
Addenda:
PCE excluding food and energy.......................................................................
112.129
114.548
117.031
115.512
116.158
116.782
117.481
117.704
Market-based PCE 1 ........................................................................................
113.167
115.893
119.759
117.371
118.452
119.719
121.348
119.519
1
Market-based PCE excluding food and energy .............................................
109.715
111.700
113.819
112.439
113.021
113.522
114.228
114.505
Final sales of domestic product .......................................................................
116.710
119.853
122.529
120.856
121.653
122.008
123.204
123.252
Gross domestic purchases ..............................................................................
117.066
120.294
124.143
121.766
122.821
124.103
125.475
124.174
Final sales to domestic purchasers..................................................................
117.101
120.329
124.178
121.798
122.863
124.160
125.543
124.146
Gross national product.....................................................................................
116.673
119.815 ..................
120.822
121.601
121.938
123.117 .................
Implicit price deflators:
Gross domestic product ...............................................................................
116.676
119.816
122.415
120.743
121.508
121.890
123.056
123.213
Final sales of domestic product....................................................................
116.709
119.853
122.522
120.849
121.647
122.002
123.198
123.246
Gross domestic purchases...........................................................................
117.066
120.292
124.067
121.687
122.722
124.045
125.400
124.106
Final sales to domestic purchasers..............................................................
117.101
120.329
124.173
121.794
122.858
124.156
125.538
124.141
Gross national product .................................................................................
116.672
119.813 ..................
120.737
121.495
121.876
123.037 .................
r Revised
1. This index is a supplemental measure that is based on household expenditures for which there are observable price measures. It excludes most implicit prices (for example, the services furnished
without payment by financial intermediaries) and the expenses of nonprofit institutions. Percentage changes for these series a re included in the addenda to table 8 and appendix table A.
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

Table 7. Real Gross Domestic Product: Percent Change From Preceding Year
1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008 r

Gross domestic product (GDP) ..................................................
2.7
4.0
2.5
3.7
4.5
4.2
4.5
3.7
0.8
1.6
2.5
3.6
2.9
2.8
2.0
1.1
Personal consumption expenditures ....................................................
3.3
3.7
2.7
3.4
3.8
5.0
5.1
4.7
2.5
2.7
2.8
3.6
3.0
3.0
2.8
0.2
Durable goods .......................................................................................
7.8
8.4
4.4
7.8
8.6
11.3
11.7
7.3
4.3
7.1
5.8
6.3
4.6
4.5
4.8
–4.3
Nondurable goods .................................................................................
2.7
3.5
2.2
2.6
2.7
4.0
4.6
3.8
2.0
2.5
3.2
3.5
3.4
3.7
2.5
–0.6
Services.................................................................................................
2.8
2.9
2.6
2.9
3.3
4.2
4.0
4.5
2.4
1.9
1.9
3.2
2.6
2.5
2.6
1.5
Gross private domestic investment.......................................................
8.9
13.6
3.1
8.9
12.4
9.8
7.8
5.7
–7.9
–2.6
3.6
9.7
5.8
2.1
–5.4
–6.5
Fixed investment....................................................................................
8.6
9.3
6.5
9.0
9.2
10.2
8.3
6.5
–3.0
–5.2
3.4
7.3
6.8
1.9
–3.1
–4.9
Nonresidential....................................................................................
8.7
9.2
10.5
9.3
12.1
11.1
9.2
8.7
–4.2
–9.2
1.0
5.8
7.2
7.5
4.9
1.7
Structures.......................................................................................
–0.7
1.8
6.4
5.6
7.3
5.1
–0.4
6.8
–2.3 –17.1
–4.1
1.3
1.3
8.2
12.7
11.5
Equipment and software ................................................................
12.5
11.9
12.0
10.6
13.8
13.3
12.7
9.4
–4.9
–6.2
2.8
7.4
9.3
7.2
1.7
–3.0
Residential .........................................................................................
8.2
9.6
–3.2
8.0
1.9
7.6
6.0
0.8
0.4
4.8
8.4
10.0
6.3
–7.1 –17.9 –20.7
Change in private inventories ................................................................ ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ............ ........... ........... ...........
Net exports of goods and services ....................................................... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ............ ........... ........... ...........
Exports ..................................................................................................
3.2
8.7
10.1
8.4
11.9
2.4
4.3
8.7
–5.4
–2.3
1.3
9.7
7.0
9.1
8.4
6.2
Goods ................................................................................................
3.3
9.7
11.7
8.8
14.3
2.2
3.8
11.2
–6.1
–4.0
1.8
9.0
7.7
9.9
7.5
5.8
Services.............................................................................................
3.2
6.3
6.3
7.2
5.9
2.9
5.6
2.9
–3.7
1.9
0.0
11.5
5.6
7.2
10.5
6.9
Imports ..................................................................................................
8.8
11.9
8.0
8.7
13.6
11.6
11.5
13.1
–2.7
3.4
4.1
11.3
5.9
6.0
2.2
–3.3
Goods ................................................................................................
10.1
13.3
9.0
9.3
14.4
11.7
12.4
13.5
–3.2
3.7
4.9
11.3
6.8
6.0
1.7
–4.1
Services.............................................................................................
2.9
5.7
3.3
5.5
9.4
11.4
6.9
11.1
–0.3
2.1
0.0
11.5
1.4
6.0
4.4
0.8
Government consumption expenditures and gross investment ........
–0.9
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.9
1.9
3.9
2.1
3.4
4.4
2.5
1.4
0.4
1.7
2.1
2.9
Federal ..................................................................................................
–4.2
–3.7
–2.7
–1.2
–1.0
–1.1
2.2
0.9
3.9
7.0
6.8
4.2
1.2
2.3
1.6
6.0
National defense................................................................................
–5.6
–4.9
–3.8
–1.4
–2.8
–2.1
1.9
–0.5
3.9
7.4
8.7
5.8
1.5
1.6
2.5
7.2
Nondefense .......................................................................................
–0.7
–1.2
–0.4
–0.7
2.6
0.7
2.8
3.5
3.9
6.3
3.4
1.1
0.6
3.6
–0.2
3.6
State and local.......................................................................................
1.4
2.6
2.6
2.3
3.6
3.6
4.7
2.7
3.2
3.1
0.2
–0.2
–0.1
1.3
2.3
1.2
Addenda:
Final sales of domestic product .............................................................
2.6
3.4
3.0
3.7
4.0
4.2
4.5
3.8
1.6
1.2
2.5
3.3
3.1
2.8
2.4
1.4
Gross domestic purchases....................................................................
3.2
4.4
2.4
3.8
4.8
5.3
5.3
4.4
0.9
2.2
2.8
4.1
3.0
2.6
1.4
–0.2
Final sales to domestic purchasers .......................................................
3.2
3.8
2.8
3.8
4.3
5.3
5.4
4.5
1.8
1.8
2.8
3.8
3.1
2.6
1.8
0.0
Gross national product ..........................................................................
2.7
3.9
2.6
3.7
4.4
4.0
4.6
3.7
0.8
1.5
2.7
3.8
3.0
2.6
2.2 ...........
Real disposable personal income..........................................................
1.0
2.7
2.8
3.0
3.5
5.8
3.0
4.8
1.9
3.1
2.2
3.6
1.4
3.5
2.8
1.3
Price indexes:
Gross domestic purchases ................................................................
2.2
2.1
2.1
1.8
1.4
0.6
1.6
2.5
2.0
1.6
2.3
3.1
3.7
3.4
2.8
3.2
Gross domestic purchases excluding food and energy .....................
2.3
2.2
2.2
1.5
1.3
1.0
1.4
1.9
1.9
1.9
1.9
2.7
3.1
3.1
2.4
2.2
GDP ...................................................................................................
2.3
2.1
2.0
1.9
1.7
1.1
1.4
2.2
2.4
1.7
2.1
2.9
3.3
3.2
2.7
2.2
GDP excluding food and energy ........................................................
2.4
2.2
2.1
1.7
1.7
1.2
1.5
2.0
2.1
2.1
1.9
2.7
3.2
3.2
2.5
2.0
Personal consumption expenditures ..................................................
2.3
2.1
2.1
2.2
1.7
0.9
1.7
2.5
2.1
1.4
2.0
2.6
2.9
2.8
2.6
3.3
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the third quarter of 2008.

Table 8. Real Gross Domestic Product: Percent Change From Quarter One Year Ago
2005
I

II

2006
III

IV

I

II

2007
III

IV

I

II

2008
III

IV

I

II

III r

IV r

Gross domestic product (GDP) ..................................................
3.2
2.9
3.0
2.7
3.1
3.2
2.4
2.4
1.3
1.8
2.8
2.3
2.5
2.1
0.7
–0.8
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE)..........................................
3.0
3.3
3.3
2.6
3.2
3.0
2.7
3.2
3.1
2.9
2.9
2.2
1.5
1.3
–0.2
–1.5
Durable goods .......................................................................................
4.3
6.8
6.2
1.2
5.5
3.0
2.5
6.9
4.6
5.4
5.1
4.2
0.8
–1.1
–5.5 –11.4
Nondurable goods .................................................................................
3.0
3.6
3.6
3.6
4.1
3.8
3.6
3.2
3.0
2.7
2.4
1.7
0.7
1.2
–0.9
–3.4
Services.................................................................................................
2.7
2.4
2.6
2.4
2.4
2.7
2.2
2.6
2.9
2.6
2.7
2.1
1.9
1.7
1.1
1.1
Gross private domestic investment.......................................................
10.9
4.4
3.5
4.8
4.1
5.4
3.0
–3.9
–7.7
–6.2
–4.1
–3.3
–2.3
–6.6
–7.3
–9.8
Fixed investment....................................................................................
8.7
7.3
6.4
5.1
5.8
3.3
0.7
–1.8
–4.6
–3.3
–2.3
–1.9
–2.5
–3.6
–4.7
–8.8
Nonresidential....................................................................................
9.2
8.1
6.6
4.9
7.9
7.9
7.7
6.5
3.5
4.4
5.3
6.4
6.2
4.2
1.6
–5.0
Structures.......................................................................................
4.2
2.3
–1.0
–0.5
1.4
6.4
12.7
12.8
11.7
11.4
12.9
14.5
13.9
13.9
11.3
7.3
Equipment and software ................................................................
11.0
10.2
9.4
7.0
10.5
8.5
5.9
4.2
0.3
1.6
2.0
2.8
2.7
–0.3
–3.1 –11.2
Residential .........................................................................................
7.7
6.1
6.0
5.4
2.5
–4.3 –10.8 –15.5 –18.5 –17.3 –17.0 –19.0 –21.3 –21.7 –20.6 –19.3
Change in private inventories ................................................................ ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ............ ........... ........... ...........
Net exports of goods and services ....................................................... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ............ ........... ........... ...........
Exports ..................................................................................................
6.9
7.5
6.8
7.0
9.0
8.2
9.0
10.1
6.1
7.0
11.7
8.9
10.1
11.0
6.1
–1.8
Goods ................................................................................................
6.9
8.7
6.8
8.3
11.0
9.0
10.2
9.5
5.6
5.7
10.0
8.7
9.4
11.7
7.3
–4.4
Services.............................................................................................
6.9
4.8
6.6
4.0
4.7
6.2
6.2
11.5
7.3
10.0
15.6
9.3
11.7
9.3
3.5
3.7
Imports ..................................................................................................
9.1
5.5
4.5
4.8
6.6
6.5
7.1
3.8
3.2
2.2
2.2
1.1
–1.0
–1.9
–3.5
–7.1
Goods ................................................................................................
10.2
6.3
5.2
5.8
6.8
6.7
7.4
3.1
2.9
1.7
1.4
0.9
–1.6
–2.4
–4.1
–8.5
Services.............................................................................................
3.7
1.5
0.8
–0.1
5.6
5.1
5.3
8.0
4.8
4.8
6.5
1.8
2.2
0.6
–0.2
0.7
Government consumption expenditures and gross investment ........
0.2
0.1
0.6
0.6
1.6
1.7
1.3
2.1
1.4
2.0
2.6
2.4
2.6
2.6
3.1
3.3
Federal ..................................................................................................
1.2
0.9
1.7
1.0
3.1
2.5
0.6
2.9
–0.4
1.6
2.9
2.3
4.8
4.7
6.3
8.2
National defense................................................................................
1.3
1.8
2.1
0.8
2.2
1.7
–1.5
4.1
0.4
2.0
4.7
2.7
6.2
5.9
7.7
8.8
Nondefense .......................................................................................
1.0
–0.9
0.8
1.4
5.1
4.1
4.9
0.5
–2.1
0.8
–0.8
1.5
1.9
2.3
3.3
6.9
State and local.......................................................................................
–0.4
–0.3
–0.1
0.3
0.7
1.2
1.7
1.6
2.4
2.3
2.3
2.4
1.4
1.4
1.3
0.5
Addenda:
Final sales of domestic product .............................................................
2.8
3.4
3.5
2.7
3.4
2.8
2.0
2.8
1.8
2.3
3.1
2.5
2.5
2.5
1.2
–0.7
Gross domestic purchases....................................................................
3.6
2.9
2.8
2.6
3.1
3.2
2.4
1.9
1.1
1.3
1.7
1.4
1.1
0.4
–0.6
–1.8
Final sales to domestic purchasers .......................................................
3.3
3.3
3.3
2.6
3.4
2.8
2.1
2.2
1.6
1.8
2.0
1.6
1.1
0.8
–0.2
–1.7
Gross national product ..........................................................................
3.2
3.1
3.1
2.8
2.9
3.1
2.1
2.5
1.2
1.6
3.1
2.9
3.0
2.4
0.8 ...........
Real disposable personal income..........................................................
1.9
1.9
0.9
0.9
3.4
3.1
4.0
3.6
3.4
2.9
3.1
1.8
0.6
3.3
0.3
1.0
Price indexes:
Gross domestic purchases ................................................................
3.6
3.3
3.9
4.0
3.8
3.9
3.3
2.5
2.7
2.6
2.4
3.3
3.3
3.5
4.1
2.0
Gross domestic purchases excluding food and energy .....................
3.2
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.0
3.2
3.1
2.9
2.8
2.4
2.3
2.3
2.1
2.2
2.4
2.1
GDP ...................................................................................................
3.3
2.9
3.4
3.5
3.4
3.5
3.2
2.8
2.9
2.8
2.5
2.6
2.3
2.0
2.6
2.0
GDP excluding food and energy ........................................................
3.3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.2
3.4
3.2
3.0
2.9
2.5
2.3
2.3
2.0
1.9
2.2
1.7
PCE ...................................................................................................
2.8
2.5
3.2
3.3
3.1
3.3
2.9
1.9
2.3
2.4
2.2
3.5
3.5
3.7
4.3
1.9
PCE excluding food and energy.........................................................
2.3
2.1
2.1
2.2
2.1
2.3
2.5
2.3
2.3
2.1
2.0
2.2
2.2
2.3
2.3
1.9
Market-based PCE 1 ..........................................................................
2.5
2.2
3.1
3.1
2.9
3.1
2.7
1.6
2.1
2.2
2.0
3.3
3.4
3.6
4.5
1.8
1
Market-based PCE excluding food and energy ...............................
1.7
1.7
1.7
1.7
1.6
1.9
2.1
2.0
2.1
1.8
1.6
1.8
1.7
1.9
2.1
1.8
r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the third quarter of 2008.
1. This index is a supplemental measure that is based on household expenditures for which there are observable price measures. It excludes most implicit prices (for example, the services furnished without payment by financial
intermediaries) and the expenses of nonprofit institutions.

Table 9. Relation of Gross Domestic Product, Gross National Product, and National Income
[Billions of dollars]
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2006

Gross domestic product ...................................................................................................
Plus: Income receipts from the rest of the world..................................................................
Less: Income payments to the rest of the world ..................................................................
Equals: Gross national product .......................................................................................
Less: Consumption of fixed capital ......................................................................................
Less: Statistical discrepancy................................................................................................
Equals: National income ...................................................................................................
Compensation of employees............................................................................................
Wage and salary accruals............................................................................................
Supplements to wages and salaries ............................................................................
Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments .......
Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment .....................................
Corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments............
Net interest and miscellaneous payments .......................................................................
Taxes on production and imports less subsidies..............................................................
Business current transfer payments.................................................................................
Current surplus of government enterprises .....................................................................
Addendum:
Gross domestic income ...................................................................................................

2007

2008 r

2007

2008

IV

I

II

III r

IV r
14,200.3
...............
...............
...............
1,849.8
...............
...............
8,087.0
6,572.1
1,514.8
1,061.5
89.1
...............
707.0
990.8
116.2
–9.5

13,178.4
725.4
647.1
13,256.6
1,623.9
–163.0
11,795.7
7,433.8
6,028.5
1,405.3
1,014.7
44.3
1,668.5
631.2
926.4
85.4
–8.6

13,807.5
861.7
759.3
13,910.0
1,720.5
–81.4
12,270.9
7,812.3
6,355.7
1,456.6
1,056.2
40.0
1,642.4
664.4
963.2
100.2
–7.9

14,264.6
................
................
................
1,832.2
................
................
8,055.8
6,550.8
1,505.0
1,072.7
63.8
................
677.3
987.1
103.4
–8.1

14,031.2
907.4
742.0
14,196.6
1,758.6
13.9
12,424.1
7,941.0
6,465.5
1,475.5
1,073.8
38.6
1,611.1
688.1
975.3
103.1
–6.7

14,150.8
843.2
705.1
14,289.0
1,778.0
63.4
12,447.6
8,009.7
6,518.0
1,491.7
1,071.7
39.1
1,593.5
662.3
975.1
103.2
–7.1

14,294.5
822.8
708.9
14,408.3
1,803.1
136.6
12,468.6
8,033.5
6,531.3
1,502.2
1,076.9
58.6
1,533.3
683.4
988.5
102.1
–7.7

14,412.8
815.6
688.7
14,539.6
1,898.1
150.2
12,491.4
8,092.9
6,581.8
1,511.1
1,080.5
68.5
1,514.8
656.6
993.8
92.1
–8.0

13,341.4

13,889.0 ................

14,017.4

14,087.4

14,157.8

14,262.6 ...............

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the third quarter of 2008.

Table 10. Personal Income and Its Disposition
[Billions of dollars]
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2006

1

2007

2008

r

2007

2008

IV

I

II

III r

IV r

Personal income .............................................................................................................
Compensation of employees, received ............................................................................
Wage and salary disbursements..................................................................................
Supplements to wages and salaries ............................................................................
Proprietors’ income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments .......
Farm .............................................................................................................................
Nonfarm .......................................................................................................................
Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment .....................................
Personal income receipts on assets ................................................................................
Personal interest income..............................................................................................
Personal dividend income ............................................................................................
Personal current transfer receipts ....................................................................................
Less: Contributions for government social insurance ......................................................
Less: Personal current taxes ...............................................................................................
Equals: Disposable personal income ..............................................................................
Less: Personal outlays.........................................................................................................
Equals: Personal saving ...................................................................................................

10,993.9
7,432.6
6,027.2
1,405.3
1,014.7
16.2
998.6
44.3
1,824.8
1,125.4
699.4
1,603.0
925.5
1,353.2
9,640.7
9,570.0
70.7

11,663.2
7,818.6
6,362.0
1,456.6
1,056.2
44.0
1,012.2
40.0
2,000.1
1,214.3
785.8
1,713.3
965.1
1,492.8
10,170.5
10,113.1
57.4

12,106.9
8,055.8
6,550.8
1,505.0
1,072.7
34.5
1,038.1
63.8
2,040.4
1,206.3
834.1
1,870.2
996.1
1,461.1
10,645.8
10,452.9
192.9

11,872.1
7,941.0
6,465.5
1,475.5
1,073.8
47.1
1,026.7
38.6
2,056.2
1,242.7
813.5
1,737.8
975.3
1,520.5
10,351.5
10,309.2
42.4

11,960.5
8,009.7
6,518.0
1,491.7
1,071.7
41.6
1,030.1
39.1
2,054.1
1,224.6
829.5
1,778.1
992.2
1,535.0
10,425.5
10,404.9
20.6

12,152.2
8,033.5
6,531.3
1,502.2
1,076.9
38.0
1,039.0
58.6
2,052.3
1,208.7
843.6
1,926.3
995.4
1,346.1
10,806.0
10,538.2
267.9

12,170.4
8,092.9
6,581.8
1,511.1
1,080.5
32.4
1,048.2
68.5
2,055.7
1,217.4
838.3
1,872.7
1,000.0
1,470.7
10,699.7
10,559.9
139.8

12,144.4
8,087.0
6,572.1
1,514.8
1,061.5
26.2
1,035.3
89.1
1,999.6
1,174.5
825.1
1,903.9
996.7
1,492.4
10,652.0
10,308.7
343.2

Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income ...................................
Addendum:
Disposable personal income, billions of chained (2000) dollars 2 ....................................

0.7

0.6

1.8

0.4

0.2

2.5

1.3

3.2

8,407.0

8,644.0

8,756.4

8,683.1

8,667.9

8,891.0

8,696.4

8,769.6

r Revised. Revisions include changes to series affected by the incorporation of revised wage and salary estimates for the third quarter of 2008.
1. Personal income is also equal to national income less corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments, taxes on production and imports less subsidies, contributions
for government social insurance, net interest and miscellaneous payments, business current transfer payments, current surplus of government enterprises, and wage accruals less disbursements, plus
personal income receipts on assets, and personal current transfer receipts.
2. Equals disposable personal income deflated by the implicit price deflator for personal consumption expenditures.

Appendix Table A. Real Gross Domestic Product and Related Aggregates and Price Indexes: Percent Change From Preceding Period
Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
2006

2007 2008 r

2005
I

Gross domestic product (GDP) and related aggregates:
GDP..................................................................................
Goods ...............................................................................
Services............................................................................
Structures .........................................................................
Motor vehicle output .........................................................
GDP excluding motor vehicle output ................................
Final sales of computers 1 ................................................
GDP excluding final sales of computers...........................
Farm gross value added 2 ................................................
Nonfarm business gross value added 3 ............................
Price indexes:
GDP..................................................................................
GDP excluding food and energy .......................................
GDP excluding final sales of computers...........................
Gross domestic purchases...............................................
Gross domestic purchases excluding food and energy ....
Gross domestic purchases excluding final sales of
computers to domestic purchasers...............................
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) ......................
PCE excluding food and energy .......................................
Market-based PCE 4.........................................................
Market-based PCE excluding food and energy 4 ..............

2.8
5.4
2.3
–2.2
–0.9
2.9
25.0
2.6
–6.9
3.2

2.0
1.1
3.1
1.0
2.8
2.2
–5.0 –5.0
–1.1 –17.8
2.1
1.7
21.3 18.7
1.9
1.0
9.7 –1.9
2.0
0.8

2006

II

III

IV

I

II

3.0
3.6
2.1
6.0
4.6
2.9
8.5
2.9
–1.9
3.7

2.6
4.7
1.0
5.1
7.1
2.5
38.5
2.4
27.7
2.9

3.8
1.3
4.8
2.7
5.3
2.0 11.1
5.9
3.9
0.9
2.6
2.3
–0.6
1.3 –0.8 –3.8
24.6 –31.0 20.2 –10.1
3.2
2.6
4.3
3.1
11.5 37.2 27.8 25.2
3.8
1.1
4.7
2.5
3.1 –26.8 –22.3
3.1
4.8
1.3
6.0
2.9

2007
III

IV

0.8
1.5
1.5
1.3
2.3
3.8
–8.8 –9.8
13.7 –19.0
0.4
2.2
7.0 34.2
0.8
1.3
6.9 30.4
0.3
1.4

I

2008

II

III

IV

I

II

0.1
–2.5
2.1
–3.9
3.8
–0.1
–5.0
0.1
12.5
–0.9

4.8
10.3
2.7
0.8
4.6
4.8
37.2
4.6
–6.1
5.8

4.8 –0.2
0.9
2.8
9.0
0.0
0.9
4.9
4.0
1.3
2.7
1.7
–2.9 –9.3 –10.1
3.3
17.3 –25.7 –14.2 –33.8
4.4
0.7
1.3
4.0
52.6 23.7
8.2 28.4
4.5 –0.3
0.8
2.7
8.6
8.2 –15.5 –10.7
5.5 –0.7
0.9
2.8

III

IV r

–0.5 –6.2
–4.2 –19.2
1.5
1.7
–1.0 –11.4
7.3 –63.5
–0.7 –4.4
–1.7 –2.2
–0.5 –6.3
7.1 25.5
–1.9 –8.7

3.2
3.2
3.4
3.4
3.1

2.7
2.5
2.8
2.8
2.4

2.2
2.0
2.4
3.2
2.2

4.0
3.9
4.2
3.7
3.9

2.1
2.7
2.3
3.1
2.7

4.1
3.2
4.2
5.2
2.9

3.7
3.5
3.9
3.9
3.2

3.5
3.6
3.7
2.9
3.4

2.7
3.2
2.9
3.6
3.2

2.8
2.6
2.9
2.9
2.5

2.2
2.6
2.3
0.6
2.5

4.1
3.2
4.2
3.6
2.9

2.0
1.7
2.1
3.3
1.8

1.5
1.8
1.7
2.2
1.9

2.8
2.4
3.0
4.0
2.4

2.6
2.0
2.7
3.5
2.2

1.1
1.5
1.2
4.2
2.2

3.9
3.0
4.1
4.5
2.8

0.5
0.4
0.6
–4.1
1.1

3.6
2.8
2.3
2.6
1.9

2.9
2.6
2.2
2.4
1.8

3.4
3.3
2.2
3.3
1.9

3.9
2.5
2.5
2.2
2.2

3.3
2.5
2.1
2.2
1.6

5.4
4.7
1.6
4.9
1.2

4.1
3.3
2.4
3.2
2.0

3.0
1.8
2.1
1.4
1.8

3.8
3.3
3.0
3.1
2.6

3.1
3.1
2.3
3.1
2.1

0.7
–0.5
1.8
–1.1
1.5

3.8
3.4
2.4
3.5
2.3

3.5
3.6
1.8
3.5
1.2

2.4
2.5
2.1
2.0
1.4

4.2
4.3
2.5
4.4
2.2

3.7
3.6
2.3
3.7
2.1

4.4
4.3
2.2
4.3
1.8

4.7
5.0
2.4
5.6
2.5

–4.0
–5.0
0.8
–5.9
1.0

r Revised
1. For some components of final sales of computers, includes computer parts.
2. Farm output less intermediate goods and services purchased.
3. Consists of GDP less gross value added of farm, of households and institutions, and of general government.
4. This index is a supplemental measure that is based on household expenditures for which there are observable price measures. It excludes most implicit prices (for example, the services furnished without payment by financial
intermediaries) and the expenses of nonprofit institutions.
See “Explanatory Note” at the end of the tables.

Explanatory Note: NIPA Measures of Quantities and Prices
Current-dollar GDP is a measure of the market value of goods, services, and structures produced in the
economy in a particular period. Changes in current-dollar GDP can be decomposed into quantity and
price components. Quantities, or “real” measures, and prices are expressed as index numbers with the
reference year -- at present, the year 2000 -- equal to 100.
Annual changes in quantities and prices are calculated using a Fisher formula that incorporates weights
from two adjacent years. (Quarterly changes in quantities and prices are calculated using a Fisher
formula that incorporates weights from two adjacent quarters; quarterly indexes are adjusted for
consistency to the annual indexes before percent changes are calculated.) For example, the 2006-07
annual percent change in real GDP uses prices for 2006 and 2007 as weights, and the 2006-07 annual
percent change in GDP prices uses quantities for 2006 and 2007 as weights. These annual changes are
“chained” (multiplied) together to form time series of quantity and price indexes. Percent changes in
Fisher indexes are not affected by the choice of reference year. (BEA also publishes a measure of the
price level known as the implicit price deflator (IPD), which is calculated as the ratio of the current-dollar
value to the corresponding chained-dollar value, multiplied by 100. The values of the IPD are very close
to the values of the corresponding "chain-type" price index.)
Index numbers of quantity and price indexes for GDP and its major components are presented in this
release in tables 5 and 6. Percent changes from the preceding period are presented in tables 1, 4, 7, 8, and
Appendix Table A. Contributions by major components to changes in real GDP are presented in table 2.
Measures of real GDP and its major components are also presented in dollar-denominated form,
designated "chained (2000) dollar estimates." For most series, these estimates, which are presented in
table 3, are computed by multiplying the current-dollar value in 2000 by a corresponding quantity index
number and then dividing by 100. For example, if a current-dollar GDP component equaled $100 in 2000
and if real output for this component increased 10 percent in 2001, then the chained (2000) dollar value of
this component in 2001 would be $110 (= $100 x 110 / 100). Percent changes calculated from
chained-dollar estimates and from chain-type quantity indexes are the same; any differences will be small
and due to rounding.
Chained-dollar values for the detailed GDP components will not necessarily sum to the chained-dollar
estimate of GDP (or to any intermediate aggregate). This is because the relative prices used as weights
for any period other than the reference year differ from those of the reference year. A measure of the
extent of such differences is provided by a “residual” line, which indicates the difference between GDP
(or other major aggregate) and the sum of the most detailed components in the table. For periods close to
the reference year, when there usually has not been much change in the relative prices that are used as
weights, the residuals tend to be small, and the chained-dollar estimates can be used to approximate the
contributions to growth and to aggregate the detailed estimates. For periods further from the reference
year, the residuals tend to be larger, and the chained-dollar estimates are less useful for analyses of
contributions to growth. Thus, the contributions to percent change shown in table 2 provide a better
measure of the composition of GDP growth. In particular, for components for which relative prices are
changing rapidly, calculation of contributions using chained-dollar estimates may be misleading even just
a few years from the reference year.
Reference: “Chained-Dollar Indexes: Issues, Tips on Their Use, and Upcoming Changes,” November
2003 Survey, pp. 8-16.