Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining output

This table also can be found in the article, "Industry employment and output projections to 2020," published in the January 2012 Monthly Labor Review.

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Table 2.5 Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining output

Industry description

Sector

2007 NAICS

Billions of chained
2005 dollars

Change

Annual rate of change

2010

2020

2010-20

2010-20

Fastest growing

Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3341

132.3

513.0

380.7

14.5

Software publishers

Information

5112

156.9

368.2

211.3

8.9

Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing

Manufacturing

3344

143.8

290.0

146.1

7.3

Computer systems design and related services

Professional and business services

5415

258.5

466.5

208.0

6.1

Data processing, hosting, related services, and other information services

Information

518, 519

168.2

303.2

135.0

6.1

Communications equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3342

62.8

105.7

42.8

5.3

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)

Financial activities

533

134.1

219.6

85.5

5.1

Management of companies and enterprises

Professional and business services

55

318.8

494.7

175.8

4.5

Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities

Financial activities

523

410.7

636.6

226.0

4.5

Home health care services

Health care and social assistance

6216

48.7

74.4

25.7

4.3

Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing

Manufacturing

3331

47.8

72.5

24.7

4.3

Telecommunications

Information

517

511.3

774.7

263.4

4.2

Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media

Manufacturing

3346

7.3

11.1

3.7

4.2

Couriers and messengers

Transportation and Warehousing

492

73.9

110.9

37.0

4.1

Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing

Manufacturing

3333

21.0

31.2

10.1

4.0

Railroad rolling stock manufacturing

Manufacturing

3365

10.6

15.7

5.1

4.0

Outpatient, laboratory, and other ambulatory care services

Health care and social assistance

6214, 6215, 6219

146.1

215.5

69.4

4.0

Scenic and sightseeing transportation and support activities for transportation

Transportation and Warehousing

487, 488

63.1

93.0

29.9

4.0

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Professional and business services

5416

166.7

242.9

76.1

3.8

Employment services

Professional and business services

5613

157.7

229.3

71.6

3.8

Construction

Construction

23

814.7

1,183.3

368.7

3.8

Automotive equipment rental and leasing

Financial activities

5321

49.7

72.0

22.3

3.8

Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing

Manufacturing

3259

47.3

68.4

21.1

3.8

Most Rapidly declining

Apparel knitting mills

Manufacturing

3151

14.8

7.1

-7.7

-7.1

Leather and hide tanning and finishing, and other leather and allied product manufacturing

Manufacturing

3161, 3169

4.4

3.2

-1.3

-3.3

General Federal non-defense government compensation

Federal government

NA

147.0

128.7

-18.3

-1.3

General Federal non-defense government consumption of fixed capital

Federal government

NA

31.3

27.4

-3.9

-1.3

Fiber, yarn, and thread mills

Manufacturing

3131

44.1

39.9

-4.2

-1.0

General Federal non-defense government except compensation and consumption of fixed capital

Federal government

NA

138.5

127.2

-11.3

-0.8

Postal Service

Federal government

491

62.0

57.5

-4.6

-0.8

General Federal defense government compensation

Federal government

NA

241.6

225.0

-16.5

-0.7

General Federal defense government consumption of fixed capital

Federal government

NA

83.1

77.4

-5.7

-0.7

General Federal defense government except compensation and consumption of fixed capital

Federal government

NA

288.6

272.0

-16.6

-0.6

General State government hospitals compensation

State and local government

NA

29.7

28.2

-1.5

-0.5

Tobacco manufacturing

Manufacturing

3122

54.3

52.0

-2.2

-0.4

Fishing, hunting and trapping

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

114

6.3

6.1

-0.2

-0.3

Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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