February 20, 2026

GDP (Advance Estimate), 4th Quarter and Year 2025 and Personal Income and Outlays, December 2025

GDP (Advance Estimate), 4th Quarter and Year 2025

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 (October, November, and December), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 4.4 percent. The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter were increases in consumer spending and investment. These movements were partly offset by decreases in government spending and exports. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.

Personal Income and Outlays, December 2025

Personal income increased $86.2 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in December, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $75.7 billion (0.3 percent), and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $91.0 billion (0.4 percent). Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $90.2 billion in December. Personal saving was $830.8 billion in December, and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 3.6 percent.

Principal Federal Economic Indicators

Gross Domestic Product
Q4 (Adv) 2025
+1.4%
Personal Income
December 2025
+0.3%
International Trade in Goods and Services
December 2025
-$70.3 B
International Transactions
Q3 2025
-$226.4 B

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| News Release

Average state personal income growth slowed to 2.6 percent in 2013 from 4.2 percent in 2012, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. State personal income growth ranged from 1.5 percent in West Virginia to 7.6 percent in North Dakota, with every state growing more slowly in 2013 than in 2012. Inflation, as measured by the national price index for personal consumption expenditures, slowed to 1.1 percent…

BEA Director Steve Landefeld to Retire

| The BEA Wire

Steve Landefeld, Director of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, plans to retire in early May. Dr. Landefeld took the helm in May 1995 and in his 19 years as director was instrumental in implementing major changes aimed at better measuring the dynamic U.S. and world economies.

Under Dr. Landefeld’s leadership, the non-partisan BEA:

Travel and Tourism Spending Accelerated in the Fourth Quarter of 2013

| The BEA Wire

Real spending on travel and tourism accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2013, increasing at an annual rate of 4.2 percent after increasing 3.1 percent (revised) in the third quarter of 2013.

Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts, 4th quarter 2013

| News Release

TRAVEL AND TOURISM SPENDING ACCELERATED IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2013

U.S. Current-Account Deficit Decreases in Fourth Quarter 2013

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. current-account deficit—the combined balances on trade in goods and services, income, and net unilateral current transfers—decreased to $81.1 billion (preliminary) in the fourth quarter of 2013 from $96.4 billion (revised) in the third quarter of 2013. As a percentage of U.S. GDP, the deficit decreased to 1.9 percent from 2.3 percent. The previously published current-account deficit for the third quarter was $94.8 billion.

Attention BEA Data Hounds: Our Interactive Tables Look a Little Different, But They Function the Same Way

| The BEA Wire

Eagle-eyed folks using our interactive data tables have probably noticed they look a tad different.

Despite some differences in the way they look, BEA’s interactive data tables operate in the same way.

The changes are part of a BEA upgrade to the next generation of language used to create Web pages, called HTML5. This upgrade will make it easier for BEA to develop applications that are more robust and design Web…

New Statistics Will Provide More Timely Snapshot of How Industries are Performing

| The BEA Wire

Want to know how much manufacturing contributed to U.S. economic growth in a given quarter? How about educational services?

For the first time, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will soon start producing on a regular basis quarterly estimates of economic activity generated by 22 industries.

January 2014 Trade Gap is $39.1 Billion

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit increased in January 2014 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit increased from $39.0 billion in December (revised) to $39.1 billion in January as imports increased more than exports. The previously published December deficit was $38.7 billion. The goods deficit increased $0.7 billion from December to $59.3 billion in January; the services surplus…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, January 2014

| News Release

U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis NEWS U.S. Department of Commerce * Washington, DC 20230 U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES January 2014 Goods and Services The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.