Introduction to U.S. economic production
- Understand how U.S. industries can be grouped at a high level
- Explore the economic production of these high-level groups in 2023
2. Overview of National Data
The total GDP of the United States was nearly $28 trillion in 2023 (as measured in current dollars). The treemap visualization below shows the breakdown of U.S. production across 15 different industry groupings ranging from agriculture to manufacturing to transportation (values in millions of current dollars; data from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis). These industry groupings share the same color when, according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), they are part of the same larger aggregated group (for example, wholesale trade, retail trade, and transportation and warehousing all have NAICS codes beginning with the number 4, so they are visualized in the treemap with the same shade of purple).
These high-level groupings are:
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
- Mining, utilities construction
- Manufacturing
- Trade, transportation, and warehousing
- Information, finance, real estate, professional services, management
- Education, healthcare, and social assistance
- Entertainment, recreation, accommodation, food services
- Other services
- Government
The visualization illustrates that, at the national level, five of these high-level industry groups were responsible for more than 60 percent of GDP in 2023. These groups were: (1) finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing; (2) professional and business services; (3) government and government enterprises; (4) manufacturing; and (5) educational services, health care, and social assistance.
To see a breakdown of the sub-industries contained within each high-level group, click on the group. (Note that only the groups that have bolded names can be explored in this way.) To zoom back out to the higher-level groups, click anywhere within the treemap.