MAIN CATEGORIES:
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and Prisons
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8. Elections
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Finances and Employment
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Finances and Employment
11. National Defense and
Veterans Affairs
12. Social Insurance and Human
Services
13. Labor Force, Employment,
and Earnings
14. Income, Expenditures, and
Wealth
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Insurance
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18. Communications and
Information Technology
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20. Science and Technology
21. Transportation - Land
22. Transportation - Air
and Water
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25. Construction and Housing
26. Manufactures
27. Domestic Trade and
Services
28. Foreign Commerce and Aid
29. Outlying Areas
30. Comparative International
Statistics
31. Industrial Outlook
32. 1997 Economic Census
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725. Gross Saving and Investment
[In billions of dollars (105.8 represents $105,800,000,000).
For definitions of concepts, see Terms below table]
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| Gross saving................................................................................. |
105.8 |
110.9 |
113.9 |
124.6 |
132.8 |
143.0 |
158.1 |
169.1 |
171.1 |
183.3 |
199.8 |
194.3 |
211.4 |
241.6 |
294.6 |
304.0 |
298.4 |
342.7 |
398.2 |
481.6 |
544.9 |
555.5 |
656.5 |
625.7 |
608.0 |
769.4 |
772.5 |
735.9 |
810.4 |
936.2 |
967.6 |
977.7 |
1,015.8 |
1,007.4 |
1,039.4 |
1,155.9 |
1,257.5 |
1,349.3 |
1,521.3 |
1,646.0 |
1,727.1 |
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| Gross private saving.................................................................... |
84.2 |
84.4 |
91.5 |
100.4 |
104.3 |
117.6 |
129.4 |
138.5 |
150.8 |
153.7 |
157.0 |
174.3 |
202.6 |
217.0 |
256.4 |
270.7 |
323.5 |
344.0 |
383.1 |
439.1 |
487.8 |
537.8 |
631.7 |
681.6 |
693.8 |
824.8 |
833.4 |
806.5 |
838.3 |
943.0 |
955.1 |
1,016.2 |
1,098.9 |
1,164.6 |
1,159.4 |
1,199.3 |
1,266.0 |
1,290.4 |
1,362.0 |
1,371.2 |
1,364.7 |
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| Personal saving......................................................................................... |
26.5 |
26.4 |
31.9 |
33.5 |
33.1 |
40.5 |
42.7 |
44.5 |
54.0 |
52.7 |
52.6 |
69.5 |
80.1 |
76.9 |
102.5 |
114.3 |
125.2 |
122.1 |
125.6 |
145.4 |
165.8 |
205.6 |
243.7 |
262.2 |
227.8 |
306.5 |
282.6 |
267.8 |
252.8 |
292.3 |
301.8 |
334.3 |
371.7 |
413.7 |
350.8 |
315.5 |
302.4 |
272.1 |
271.1 |
229.7 |
156.3 |
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| capital consumption adjustments..................................................... |
17.5 |
16.3 |
16.8 |
22.6 |
25.2 |
28.6 |
34.9 |
37.6 |
35.4 |
33.6 |
29.8 |
23.0 |
32.4 |
41.1 |
44.8 |
29.5 |
49.1 |
57.3 |
73.1 |
82.9 |
77.0 |
49.6 |
64.1 |
61.9 |
93.2 |
124.7 |
128.3 |
88.0 |
107.3 |
138.3 |
99.2 |
102.4 |
119.2 |
124.4 |
142.0 |
151.6 |
203.6 |
232.7 |
266.6 |
259.6 |
268.6 |
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| Undistributed profits............................................................................. |
17.5 |
15.5 |
14.8 |
17.9 |
19.5 |
22.7 |
28.9 |
32.1 |
29.1 |
29.3 |
27.2 |
21.9 |
29.7 |
38.6 |
55.0 |
61.8 |
60.9 |
75.4 |
91.2 |
110.6 |
124.6 |
102.6 |
86.0 |
56.2 |
70.5 |
81.0 |
61.0 |
30.6 |
75.3 |
115.2 |
80.2 |
95.3 |
104.1 |
122.9 |
141.9 |
151.8 |
203.3 |
205.0 |
223.9 |
193.1 |
224.4 |
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-0.3 |
-0.2 |
0.3 |
0.0 |
0.1 |
-0.5 |
-1.2 |
-2.1 |
-1.6 |
-3.7 |
-5.9 |
-6.6 |
-4.6 |
-6.6 |
-19.6 |
-38.2 |
-10.5 |
-14.1 |
-15.7 |
-23.7 |
-40.1 |
-42.1 |
-24.6 |
-7.5 |
-7.4 |
-4.0 |
0.0 |
7.1 |
-16.2 |
-22.2 |
-16.3 |
-12.9 |
4.9 |
-2.8 |
-4.0 |
-12.4 |
-18.3 |
3.1 |
7.4 |
20.9 |
-13.0 |
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| Capital consumption adjustment....................................................... |
0.3 |
1.0 |
1.7 |
4.6 |
5.6 |
6.4 |
7.2 |
7.6 |
7.9 |
8.0 |
8.5 |
7.6 |
7.3 |
9.0 |
9.4 |
5.9 |
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-4.0 |
-2.4 |
-4.0 |
-7.4 |
-10.8 |
2.7 |
13.3 |
30.2 |
47.7 |
67.2 |
50.3 |
48.2 |
45.3 |
35.3 |
19.9 |
10.2 |
4.3 |
4.1 |
12.2 |
18.6 |
24.6 |
35.3 |
45.6 |
57.2 |
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| capital......................................................................................................... |
23.7 |
24.7 |
25.2 |
26.2 |
27.2 |
28.7 |
30.8 |
33.7 |
37.1 |
41.1 |
45.6 |
50.5 |
55.4 |
60.9 |
66.8 |
78.5 |
94.0 |
104.5 |
117.5 |
134.5 |
156.4 |
181.1 |
210.1 |
233.4 |
244.4 |
260.2 |
280.9 |
302.1 |
320.8 |
344.3 |
370.6 |
391.1 |
411.2 |
427.9 |
448.5 |
482.7 |
512.1 |
543.5 |
578.8 |
616.9 |
661.1 |
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| capital..................................................................................................................... |
16.5 |
17.1 |
17.6 |
18.1 |
18.7 |
19.7 |
21.0 |
22.6 |
24.3 |
26.4 |
29.0 |
31.4 |
34.4 |
38.5 |
42.3 |
48.4 |
55.2 |
60.0 |
66.9 |
76.2 |
88.5 |
101.5 |
113.7 |
124.0 |
128.3 |
133.4 |
141.7 |
148.7 |
157.4 |
168.1 |
183.4 |
188.4 |
196.8 |
214.3 |
211.6 |
231.9 |
231.5 |
238.5 |
249.8 |
261.5 |
278.6 |
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0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.4 |
-0.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
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0.0 |
-15.8 |
6.4 |
17.6 |
16.4 |
3.6 |
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21.6 |
26.5 |
22.5 |
24.2 |
28.5 |
25.5 |
28.8 |
30.7 |
20.3 |
29.6 |
42.8 |
20.0 |
8.8 |
24.6 |
38.2 |
33.3 |
-25.1 |
-1.3 |
15.1 |
42.5 |
57.1 |
17.7 |
24.8 |
-55.9 |
-85.7 |
-55.4 |
-60.9 |
-70.5 |
-27.9 |
-6.7 |
12.5 |
-38.6 |
-83.2 |
-157.2 |
-120.0 |
-43.4 |
-8.5 |
58.9 |
159.3 |
274.8 |
362.5 |
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13.6 |
17.8 |
13.5 |
14.0 |
17.5 |
13.4 |
16.0 |
16.1 |
5.8 |
13.8 |
25.5 |
2.3 |
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-3.8 |
8.3 |
6.4 |
-47.7 |
-29.9 |
-20.6 |
-0.6 |
16.6 |
-22.8 |
-18.9 |
-93.1 |
-131.5 |
-121.6 |
-127.9 |
-139.2 |
-91.6 |
-77.2 |
-65.6 |
-104.3 |
-142.3 |
-222.2 |
-195.4 |
-130.9 |
-108.0 |
-51.5 |
37.7 |
134.3 |
206.3 |
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10.4 |
10.7 |
11.0 |
11.6 |
12.3 |
12.5 |
12.8 |
13.3 |
14.2 |
15.1 |
15.9 |
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17.4 |
18.7 |
19.5 |
20.2 |
21.6 |
23.2 |
24.6 |
26.3 |
28.0 |
30.9 |
34.7 |
39.5 |
42.4 |
46.4 |
49.3 |
52.9 |
56.3 |
60.2 |
64.4 |
68.7 |
73.0 |
75.4 |
78.7 |
81.4 |
84.0 |
85.3 |
86.6 |
87.4 |
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3.2 |
7.1 |
2.5 |
2.4 |
5.2 |
0.8 |
3.2 |
2.7 |
-8.3 |
-1.3 |
9.6 |
-14.4 |
-26.8 |
-22.5 |
-11.2 |
-13.9 |
-69.3 |
-53.0 |
-45.2 |
-26.9 |
-11.4 |
-53.8 |
-53.7 |
-132.6 |
-173.9 |
-168.1 |
-177.1 |
-192.1 |
-147.9 |
-137.4 |
-130.0 |
-173.0 |
-215.3 |
-297.5 |
-274.1 |
-212.3 |
-192.0 |
-136.8 |
-48.8 |
46.9 |
115.4 |
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8.0 |
8.7 |
9.0 |
10.2 |
11.0 |
12.1 |
12.7 |
14.6 |
14.5 |
15.8 |
17.3 |
17.6 |
18.2 |
28.4 |
30.0 |
27.0 |
22.7 |
28.6 |
35.7 |
43.1 |
40.5 |
40.6 |
43.8 |
37.2 |
45.7 |
66.2 |
67.0 |
68.7 |
63.7 |
70.5 |
78.1 |
65.7 |
59.1 |
65.0 |
75.4 |
87.5 |
99.4 |
110.4 |
121.5 |
140.5 |
156.2 |
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| Consumption of fixed capital.............................................................. |
4.2 |
4.4 |
4.7 |
5.0 |
5.4 |
5.7 |
6.2 |
6.9 |
7.5 |
8.3 |
9.3 |
10.6 |
11.8 |
12.9 |
14.3 |
17.7 |
20.2 |
21.3 |
22.6 |
24.4 |
27.4 |
31.7 |
36.3 |
39.5 |
40.9 |
42.4 |
44.7 |
47.9 |
51.5 |
54.9 |
58.8 |
63.1 |
66.9 |
69.9 |
73.9 |
78.9 |
84.1 |
88.9 |
94.0 |
98.8 |
105.2 |
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3.8 |
4.3 |
4.3 |
5.2 |
5.7 |
6.4 |
6.5 |
7.7 |
7.0 |
7.5 |
8.0 |
7.1 |
6.4 |
15.6 |
15.7 |
9.3 |
2.4 |
7.3 |
13.1 |
18.7 |
13.0 |
8.8 |
7.5 |
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4.8 |
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22.3 |
20.8 |
12.2 |
15.6 |
19.3 |
2.6 |
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-4.9 |
1.5 |
8.6 |
15.3 |
21.4 |
27.5 |
41.7 |
51.0 |
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| Gross investment................................................................................................. |
106.7 |
110.4 |
113.8 |
125.3 |
132.4 |
144.2 |
160.0 |
175.6 |
175.9 |
187.6 |
202.7 |
201.2 |
222.7 |
250.3 |
302.6 |
314.0 |
316.1 |
367.2 |
419.8 |
502.6 |
580.6 |
589.5 |
684.0 |
628.2 |
655.0 |
787.9 |
784.2 |
779.8 |
813.8 |
894.0 |
983.9 |
1,008.2 |
1,035.4 |
1,051.1 |
1,103.2 |
1,214.4 |
1,284.0 |
1,382.1 |
1,518.1 |
1,598.4 |
1,602.0 |
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| Gross private domestic investment................................................. |
78.5 |
78.9 |
78.2 |
88.1 |
93.8 |
102.1 |
118.2 |
131.3 |
128.6 |
141.2 |
156.4 |
152.4 |
178.2 |
207.6 |
244.5 |
249.4 |
230.2 |
292.0 |
361.3 |
436.0 |
490.6 |
477.9 |
570.8 |
516.1 |
564.2 |
735.5 |
736.3 |
747.2 |
781.5 |
821.1 |
872.9 |
861.7 |
800.2 |
866.6 |
955.1 |
1,097.1 |
1,143.8 |
1,242.7 |
1,383.7 |
1,531.2 |
1,622.7 |
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| Gross government investment.............................................................. |
29.3 |
28.3 |
31.3 |
33.3 |
33.6 |
34.6 |
35.6 |
40.4 |
43.8 |
44.7 |
44.4 |
44.8 |
44.0 |
46.3 |
49.4 |
57.4 |
64.5 |
66.4 |
67.5 |
77.1 |
88.5 |
100.3 |
106.9 |
112.3 |
122.8 |
139.4 |
158.8 |
173.2 |
184.3 |
186.2 |
197.7 |
215.8 |
220.3 |
223.1 |
220.9 |
225.6 |
238.2 |
250.1 |
258.1 |
268.7 |
297.8 |
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-1.2 |
3.2 |
4.3 |
3.9 |
5.0 |
7.5 |
6.2 |
3.9 |
3.5 |
1.7 |
1.8 |
4.0 |
0.6 |
-3.6 |
8.7 |
7.1 |
21.4 |
8.9 |
-9.0 |
-10.4 |
1.4 |
11.4 |
6.3 |
-0.2 |
-32.0 |
-87.0 |
-110.9 |
-140.6 |
-152.0 |
-113.2 |
-86.7 |
-69.2 |
14.9 |
-38.7 |
-72.9 |
-108.3 |
-98.0 |
-110.7 |
-123.7 |
-201.5 |
-318.5 |
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0.8 |
-0.6 |
-0.2 |
0.7 |
-0.4 |
1.2 |
1.9 |
6.4 |
4.8 |
4.3 |
2.9 |
6.9 |
11.3 |
8.7 |
8.0 |
10.0 |
17.7 |
24.5 |
21.6 |
21.0 |
35.7 |
33.9 |
27.5 |
2.5 |
47.0 |
18.6 |
11.7 |
43.9 |
3.3 |
-42.2 |
16.3 |
30.6 |
19.6 |
43.7 |
63.8 |
58.5 |
26.5 |
32.8 |
-3.2 |
-47.6 |
-125.1 |
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| gross national product........................................................................................ |
20.7 |
20.9 |
20.7 |
21.1 |
21.3 |
21.4 |
21.8 |
21.3 |
20.4 |
20.0 |
20.1 |
18.6 |
18.6 |
19.3 |
21.1 |
20.0 |
18.1 |
18.6 |
19.4 |
20.8 |
21.0 |
19.6 |
20.7 |
19.0 |
17.0 |
19.4 |
18.2 |
16.5 |
17.0 |
18.3 |
17.6 |
16.8 |
16.9 |
15.9 |
15.6 |
16.3 |
16.9 |
17.2 |
18.3 |
18.8 |
18.7 |
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis,
National Income and Product Accounts of the United States, 1929-97, vol. 1, forthcoming;
and Survey of Current Business, May 2000.
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn1.htm
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The national income and product accounts (NIPA's) show the value and composition of the Nation's output and the
distribution of incomes generated in its production. The accounts include estimates of gross domestic product (GDP)-the
market value of the Nation's output of goods and services-in current and real terms, GDP price measures, the goods and
services that make up GDP in current and real terms, national income, personal income, and corporate profits. In addition,
BEA produces specialized measures such as estimates of auto and truck output, GDP of corporate business, housing output,
and business inventories and sales. Estimates of gross product originating by industry are prepared annually in current and real
terms. Measures of the inventory and fixed capital stocks consistent with the NIPA output measures are also provided.
Further, the accounts provide a consistent framework within which estimates of analytical interest-such as the role of research
and development in the U.S. economy or as the interaction of the economy and the environment-can be developed.
The estimates of GDP are prepared each quarter in the following sequence: Advance estimates are released near the end of
the first month after the end of the quarter; as more detailed and comprehensive data become available, preliminary and final
estimates are released near the end of the second and third months, respectively. Monthly estimates of personal income and
outlays are released near the end of the month following the reference month; estimates for the 2 to 4 most recent months are
revised at that time. Ordinarily, annual NIPA revisions are carried out each summer and cover the months and quarters of the
most recent calendar year and the preceding 2 years. (For example, the July 1994 revision covered 1991, 1992, and 1993.)
These revisions are timed to incorporate newly available major annual source data. Comprehensive (benchmark) revisions are
carried out at about 5-year intervals, a comprehensive revision was released in January 1996. Current quarterly NIPA
estimates appear in a set of 54 "selected" tables each month in the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS. The full set of
NIPA tables (138 tables) usually is published at the time of annual revisions and comprehensive revisions. Annual estimates of
the fixed capital stock are reported shortly thereafter.
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Terms
Personal saving is personal income less the sum of personal outlays and personal tax and nontax payments. It is the
current saving of individuals (including proprietors and partnerships), nonprofit institutions that primarily serve individuals,
life insurance carriers, private noninsured welfare funds, and private trust funds. Personal saving may also be viewed as the
sum of the net acquisition of financial assets (such as cash and deposits, securities, and the change in the net equity of
individuals in life insurance and in private noninsured pension plans) and the change in physical assets less the sum of net
borrowing and of consumption of fixed capital.
Undistributed profits is corporate profits after tax less dividends.
Inventory valuation adjustment (IVA) for corporations is the difference between the cost of inventory withdrawals
as valued in the source data used to determine profits before tax and the cost of withdrawals valued at replacement cost. It is
needed because inventories as reported in the source data are often charged to cost of sales (that is, withdrawn) at their
acquisition (historical) cost rather than at their replacement cost (the concept underlying the NIPA's). As prices change,
companies that value inventory withdrawals at acquisition cost may realize profits or losses. Inventory profits, a
capital-gains-like element in profits, result from an increase in inventory prices, and inventory losses, a capital-loss-like
element in profits, result from a decrease in inventory prices. In the NIPA's, inventory profits or losses are shown as
adjustments to business income (corporate profits and nonfarm proprietors' income); they are shown as the IVA with the sign
reversed. No adjustment is needed to farm proprietors' income because farm inventories are measured on a
current-market-cost basis.
Private capital consumption adjustment is the difference between private capital consumption allowances and private consumption of
fixed capital.
Consumption of fixed capital is a charge for the using up of private and government fixed capital located in the
United States. It is based on studies of prices of used equipment and structures in resale markets. For general government
and for nonprofit institutions that primarily serve individuals, it is recorded in government consumption expenditures and in
personal consumption expenditures, respectively, as the value of the current services of the fixed capital assets owned and
used by these entities.
Gross private domestic investment consists of fixed investment and change in business inventories.
Fixed investment consists of both nonresidential fixed investment and residential fixed investment. It
consists of purchases of fixed assets, which are commodities that will be used in a production process for more than 1 year,
including replacements and additions to the capital stock, and it is measured before a deduction for consumption of fixed
capital. It covers all investment by private businesses and by nonprofit institutions in the United States, regardless of
whether the investment is owned by U.S. residents. (Purchases of the same types of equipment and structures by government
agencies are included in government gross investment.) It excludes investment by U.S. residents in other countries.
Nonresidential fixed investment consists of both structures and producers' durable equipment (PDE).
Government consumption expenditures and gross investment consists of net purchases of goods, services, and
structures from business and from the rest of the world by general government; payments by general government to
households in the form of compensation of employees; the consumption of general government fixed capital, which
represents the value of the current services of fixed assets of general government; net purchases of fixed assets by
government enterprises; inventory change of government enterprises; and a deduction for general government
salesprimarily tuition payments for higher education and charges for medical care. Of this total, gross investment is net
purchases of new and used structures and equipment by general government and government enterprises; all other
transactions are consumption expenditures. Government consumption expenditures and gross investment excludes purchases
by government enterprises (except for fixed assets), transfer payments, interest paid or received by government, subsidies,
and transactions in financial assets and in nonproduced assets, such as land.
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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.
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