Bars over time
U.S. Real GDP Growth
Quarterly change in real GDP, annualized, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
The headline growth rate for the U.S. economy, quarter by quarter, after inflation. Back-to-back negative quarters are a common shorthand for recession, though the official call weighs more data.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Real GDP Growth (Quarterly, Annualized)as “Real GDP growth”behindlatest 2026-04-01
Sources
U.S. Real GDP Growth (Quarterly, Annualized). Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, series A191RL1Q225SBEA ("Real Gross Domestic Product, percent change from preceding period, SAAR"). Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Economic Analysis data are in the public domain.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.