Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 2-1
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Attributed to Transportation-Related Final Demand

(Current value, billions (or thousand millions) of U.S. dollars)

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  Canada Mexico United States
1990 1995 1996 1990 1995 1996 1990 1995r 1996
Personal consumption of  transportation, total 48.1 45.4 49.1 24.7 26.1 32.2 462.5 574.1 612.0
Road motor vehicles and partsa 21.4 20.7 23.0 7.7 6.3 8.2 204.6 247.4 256.4
Motorcycles and other 0.9 0.8 0.8 U U U 5.0 7.9 8.7
Motor fuel and lubricants 11.2 10.0 10.5 5.8 5.0 6.0 109.3 115.6 124.5
Transport services 14.6 13.9 14.8 11.2 14.8 18.1 143.6 203.2 222.4
Gross private domestic investment,  total 12.4 11.1 11.8 U U U 78.5 130.6 142.6
Transportation structures 2.3 1.8 2.3 U U U 3.0 4.4 5.4
Transportation equipment 10.1 9.3 9.5 U U U 75.5 126.2 137.2
Exports (+), total 39.7 58.9 61.3 6.3 14.6 19.5 106.7 133.6 143.2
Aircraft, engines and parts 4.2 4.7 5.5 0.1 0.3 0.1 32.2 26.1 30.8
Road motor vehicles, engines and parts 32.1 49.3 50.5 4.8 12.4 17.0 36.5 61.8 65.0
Passenger fares 1.5 1.7 1.9 0.4 0.7 0.8 15.3 18.9 20.4
Other transportation 1.9 3.2 3.4 1.0 1.2 1.6 22.7 26.8 27.0
Imports (-), total 35.8 47.9 49.4 9.7 12.2 13.5 134.7 176.6 185.1
Aircraft, engines and parts 2.8 2.9 3.6 0.1 0.0 0.1 10.5 10.7 12.7
Road motor vehicles, engines and parts 29.6 40.8 41.3 5.8 7.6 8.4 88.5 123.8 128.9
Passenger fares 2.7 2.8 3.1 0.5 0.4 0.6 10.5 14.7 15.8
Other transportation 0.7 1.4 1.4 3.3 4.1 4.4 25.2 27.4 27.7
Net exports of transportation-related  goods and services 3.9 11.0 11.9 -3.4 2.4 6.0 -28.0 -43.0 -41.9
Government transportation-related  purchases, total 7.7 7.1 6.4 U U U 110.6 136.6 143.3
Federal purchases 0.6 0.3 0.2 U U U 14.6 18.1 18.9
State/province and local purchases 5.7 5.7 5.3 U U U 87.1 110.0 115.5
Defense related purchases 1.4 1.1 0.9 U U U 8.9 8.5 8.9
Transportation-related final demand,  total 72.0 74.6 79.2 22.7 30.0 40.2 623.6 798.3 856.0
Gross domestic product 540.1 545.9 p568.7 240.4 261.5 302.2 5743.8 7269.6 7661.6
Transportation in GDP, total (percent) 13.4 13.6 13.9 U U U 10.9 11.0 11.2

aExcludes boats, noncommercial trailers and aircraft.

KEY: p = Data are preliminary. r = Data are revised. U = Data are unavailable.

NOTES

Mexico

Road motor vehicles and parts: Data include motorcycles which cannot be disaggregated into a separate category.

Motorcycles and other: Data are unavailable as motorcycles are included in the category, road motor vehicles and parts and cannot be further disaggregated.

Transportation related final demand: Excludes data for government purchases and gross private domestic investment.

Transportation in GDP: The total percent of transportation in GDP was not calculated due to the unavailability of data for government and private sector purchases.

SOURCES

Canada

Statistics Canada. Input-Output Division. Special tabulations. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998).

Mexico

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. Dirección General de Contabilidad Nacional, Estudios Socioeconómicos y Precios. Sistema de Cuentas Nacionales de México, 1988-1996. (Aguascalientes, Ags: 1997).

United States

U.S. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, April 1999 based on data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Historical Data Tables. (Washington, DC: 1990).

U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Survey of Current Business and special tabulations. (Washington, DC:1998).



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