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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| The BEA Wire

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Real Disposable Personal Income Falls in January

| The BEA Wire

Personal income decreased 3.6 percent in January after increasing 2.6 percent in December, reflecting accelerated bonus payments and dividend distributions in December in anticipation of income tax rate changes.

Personal Income and Outlays, January 2013

| News Release

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GDP Growth Slows in Fourth Quarter

| The BEA Wire

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Gross Domestic Product, 4th quarter and annual 2012 (second estimate)

| News Release

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Growth Continues Across the Nation's Metropolitan Areas

| The BEA Wire

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Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area, 2011 and Revised 2001-2010

| News Release

 

ECONOMIC GROWTH CONTINUES ACROSS METROPOLITAN AREAS IN 2011

Advance 2011, and Revised 20012010 GDP-by-Metropolitan-Area Statistics

 

Tracking Global Investment: Who Owns What—and Where

| The BEA Wire

How much does the United States own abroad? And how does that stack up against what foreign investors own in this country? Tracking the ownership and value of trillions of dollars’ worth of financial assets like stocks, bonds, loans, and cash in bank accounts to come up with answers to these very questions is the work of skilled financial sleuths at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

December 2012 Trade Gap is $38.5 Billion

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit decreased in December 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $48.6 billion (revised) in November to $38.5 billion in December, as exports increased and imports decreased. The previously published November deficit was $48.7 billion. The goods deficit decreased $9.4 billion from November to $56.2 billion in December, and the…