Washington, DC…Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent.
The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the first quarter were investment, exports, consumer spending, and government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, also increased. For more information, refer to the “Technical Notes” below.
Compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, the acceleration in real GDP in the first quarter of 2026 reflected upturns in government spending and exports, and an acceleration in investment that were partly offset by a deceleration in consumer spending. Imports turned up.
Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, the sum of consumer spending and gross private fixed investment, increased 2.5 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter.
The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 3.6 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 4.5 percent, compared with an increase of 2.9 percent, and the PCE price index excluding food and energy increased 4.3 percent, compared with an increase of 2.7 percent.
| Real GDP and Related Measures [Percent change (SAAR) from 2025:Q4 to 2026:Q1] |
|
|---|---|
| Advance Estimate | |
| Real GDP | 2.0 |
| Current-dollar GDP | 5.6 |
| Real final sales to private domestic purchasers | 2.5 |
| Gross domestic purchases price index | 3.6 |
| PCE price index | 4.5 |
| PCE price index excluding food and energy | 4.3 |
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The unemployment data from the maga labor dept are BS.
The stock market also is a fraud, as the inflation, and projection of higher inflation due to the illegal Iran war-not a war according to maga mike.
The projections by economists for the economy for the next 6 months is dismal.
As long as maga don keeps the world hostage with his Epstein distraction everyone will have economic distress .
This elective illegal war is killing people with the loss of transportation, food security, especially the poorer countries.