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The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the economy of the U.S., from the colonial era to the present. The emphasis is on productivity and economic performance and how the economy was affected by new technologies, the change of size in economic sectors and the effects of legislation and government policy.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by gross domestic product (GDP). This article presents the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and their nominal GDP at current prices. The data source for the list is the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in 2024. The BEA defined GDP by state as "the sum of value added from all industries ...
This recession was one of the main causes of the American Civil War, which would begin in 1861 and end in 1865. This is the earliest recession to which the NBER assigns specific months (rather than years) for the peak and trough. [ 6][ 8][ 21] 1860–1861 recession. October 1860 – June 1861. 8 months.
The U.S. economy is heavily dependent on road transport for moving people and goods. Personal transportation is dominated by automobiles, which operate on a network of four million miles (6.4 million km) of public roads, [ 339] including one of the world's longest highway systems at 57,000 miles (91,700 km). [ 340]
This list of countries by largest GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies has changed. While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy for some time, in the last fifty years the world has seen the rapid rise and fall in relative terms of the economies of other countries while the share of the United States has also fluctuated.
Oct 1945–. Nov 1948. 37. +5.2%. +1.5%. As the United States demobilized from World War II, the decline in government spending caused a brief recession in 1945 and suppressed GDP growth for several years thereafter. However, private economic activity expanded at a brisk pace throughout this period.
Historical list of the world's ten largest economies by GDP (PPP) (billions USD) (World Bank figures) Year World Top 10 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 2015 113,612.52: 68,997.53 China 19,524.35 United States 17,947.0 Japan 4,738.29 Germany 3,848.27 Russia 3,579.83 Brazil 3,192.40 Indonesia 2,842.24 United Kingdom 2,691.81
On the whole, PPP per capita figures are less spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. [5] The rankings of national economies over time have changed considerably; the United States surpassed the British Empire's output around 1916, [6] which in turn had surpassed the Qing dynasty in aggregate output decades earlier.