National Economic Accounts

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

• News Release: Gross Domestic Product
  includes highlights, technical note, and associated tables
• Current-dollar and "real" GDP (Excel • 34KB)
• Percent change from preceding period (Excel • 34KB)
• Interactive Tables: GDP and the National Income and Product Account (NIPA) Historical Tables
• Selected NIPA Tables:
  What's New: The NIPA.wk1 spreadsheet contained in Dpga.exe (Self-extracting format) and Dpga.zip (Compressed format) are no longer available.
  • Text format (Text • 990KB)
  • Comma-delimited format (CSV • 993KB)
  • Portable document format (PDF • 2,928KB)

Now Available: • NIPA Handbook: Concepts and Methods of the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts (PDF • 1,220KB)

• NIPA annual and comprehensive revision plans (PDF • 60KB)
• Measuring the Economy: A Primer on GDP and the National Income and Product Accounts (PDF • 572KB)
• An Introduction to the National Income and Product Accounts (MP-1) (PDF • 901KB)
• "Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2008 (PDF • 124KB)

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Personal Income and Outlays

• News Release: Personal Income and Outlays
  includes highlights and associated tables
• Interactive Tables: National Income and Product Accounts Tables
• Charts and interactive tables:
  • Comparison of Personal Saving in the NIPAs with Personal Saving in the Flow of Funds Accounts
  • Comparison of the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index with the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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Corporate Profits

• News Release: Corporate Profits
  includes highlights, technical note, and associated tables
• Net Effects of the Tax Acts of 2002, 2003, and 2008 on Selected Measures of Corporate Profits (Excel • 78 KB)
• Interactive Tables: National Income and Product Accounts Tables

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Government Current Receipts and Expenditures

• Government Current Receipts and Expenditures

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Supplemental Estimates

• Underlying Detail Tables
  
  What's New: Layout of New and Modified Underlying Detail Tables
• Key source data and assumptions for "advance" estimates
  • XLS
  • TXT
• Motor vehicles (Excel • 475 KB)
• Prices and Output for Information and Communication Technologies
• Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts for the United States
• Estimates prepared for international comparisons based on the System of National Accounts
• Million Dollar and Three Decimal Place NIPA Tables
• Additional Tables

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Fixed Assets

• Interactive Tables: Fixed Assets Tables

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Research and Development Satellite Account

2007

• News Release: Research and Development
• Survey of Current Business: Research and Development Satellite Account Update. Estimates for 1959-2004: New Estimates for Industry, Regional, and International Accounts (PDF • 1,330 KB) Tables (PDF • 1,309 KB) | October 2007
• Report upon release, September 28, 2007 (PDF • 698 KB)
• 1959-2004 research and development data (Excel • 412 KB)
• Information Guide: Research and Development
• Background Papers
  • Methodology for R&D Capital Stocks and Net Rates of Return (PDF • 475 KB)
  • Framework for an Industry-based R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 143 KB)
  • 2007 R&D Satellite Account Methodologies: Current-dollar GDP Estimates (PDF • 1,082 KB)
  • Methodology for the Industry Estimates in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 1,449 KB)
  • Estimating Prices for R&D Investment in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 446 KB)
  • R&D Depreciation Rates in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 81 KB)
  • Treatment of International Research and Development as Investment (PDF • 986KB)
  • Issues Related to Treating R&D as Investment In BEA’s Regional Accounts (PDF • 179KB)

Previously Published Estimates

Research and Development Conference, December 2006

• Measurement Issues and the R&D Satellite Account Methodology

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Conferences and Meetings

• National Economic Accounts Data Users' Conference, October 2007
• National Economic Accounts Data Users' Conference, April 2007
• BEA Government Statistics Users Conference: 2006
• State and Local Data Symposium
• BEA Government Statistics Users Conference: 2004
• Research and Development Conference: Measurement Issues and the R&D Satellite Account Methodology

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Previously Published Estimates

• Previously published estimates contain historical data and have since been revised. Please contact the National program area with questions.
• Archived news releases

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• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Personal Income and Outlays
• Corporate Profits
• Fixed Assets
• Research and Development
• Government Current Receipts and Expenditures
• Supplemental Estimates
• Conferences and Meetings
• Previously Published Estimates