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Economy & public finances

United States · Contributions to GDP growth

What moved GDP from one quarter to the next, in percentage points: household consumption, government consumption, investment, changes in inventories and net trade (exports minus imports). The five bars add up to the quarter's GDP growth (volume, seasonally adjusted). Quarterly national accounts: Eurostat (namq_10_gdp) for EU countries, OECD for the others.· Contributions to the change in GDP volume vs the previous quarter, in percentage points, seasonally and calendar adjusted (Eurostat, namq_10_gdp, unit CON_PPCH_PRE, for France, Germany, Italy and the EU; OECD Quarterly National Accounts for the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Japan). The five bars add up to the quarter’s GDP growth, up to rounding; the total shows in the tooltip. Net trade = exports minus imports: rising imports pull it down.· Changes in inventories swing widely from quarter to quarter and absorb part of the statistical discrepancies; they often offset net trade (imports put into stock weigh on one and support the other). Read the two together.· For this country the contributions come from the OECD Quarterly National Accounts (DF_QNA_EXPENDITURE_CONTRIB), which carry the national statistical office’s figures. Household consumption includes non-profit institutions; inventories include valuables. The five bars may differ from published GDP growth by up to 0.2 point (statistical discrepancy, rounding: Japan publishes to one decimal); the headline figure is the published GDP growth.· The BEA publishes contributions at an annualised rate; the OECD divides them by 4 to match quarter-on-quarter growth. The approximation holds except in the 2020 shocks (Q2 and Q3), when the bars differ from GDP growth by about 1 point.· Annual view: the OECD publishes no annual contributions for this country. Citoyen computes them from OECD national accounts (Table 1, national currency) with Eurostat’s method: change of each component valued at the previous year’s prices, divided by the previous year’s GDP at current prices. The GDP growth obtained this way matches the OECD’s published growth to within 0.05 point. They are not the sum of the four quarterly contributions.· In the annual view, changes in inventories are not published at the previous year’s prices for this country: they are computed as GDP growth minus the four other bars, so they also absorb the statistical discrepancy.· Licence : OECD terms and conditions · source: OECD, Quarterly National Accounts
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Q3 2026
Frequency
Range
Net tradeChanges in inventoriesInvestmentGovernment consumptionHousehold consumption
Source: OCDE· Data Q3 2026
Bars add up to the period’s GDP growthInventories: an adjustment itemBars vs GDP: statistical discrepancy possible (≤ 0.2 pt)BEA contributions at an annual rate ÷ 4
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