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# US GDP data is live: 12 series back to 1947
2026-11-09 · Financial Datasets Team · 3 min read

Financial Datasets now serves US GDP data. Real GDP growth, the real and nominal level of GDP, the four contributions to growth, income-side growth, corporate profits, personal income, the saving rate, and real consumer spending are available at `/macro/gdp`. That is 12 series, quarterly from 1947 and monthly from 1959, updated within minutes of each release. Every row carries the change from the prior period and from a year earlier, already computed.

## Why

Growth was the missing piece of our macro data. The API already serves [inflation](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/api/macro/inflation/historical), the [labor market](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/api/macro/labor/historical), [Treasury yields](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/api/macro/yield-curve/historical), and [central bank policy rates](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/api/macro/interest-rates/historical). GDP completes the set that an earnings model or a macro dashboard starts from: how fast the economy is growing, what drove it, and what households earn and save. The numbers come directly from authoritative government sources.

## How to pull GDP data

Pass a series id. The dates are optional. With none, you get the trailing five years.

```python
import requests

headers = {"X-API-KEY": "your_api_key_here"}

url = (
    "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/macro/gdp"
    "?series=real_gdp_growth&start_date=2025-07-01&end_date=2026-09-30"
)

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
for row in response.json()["gdp"]:
    print(f"{row['date']} growth={row['value']} change_prior={row['change_prior']}")
```

```text
2026-07-01 growth=3.4 change_prior=1.2
2026-04-01 growth=2.2 change_prior=-0.3
2026-01-01 growth=2.5 change_prior=2.3
2025-10-01 growth=0.2 change_prior=-3.7
2025-07-01 growth=3.9 change_prior=-0.1
```

`date` is the reference period, so `2026-07-01` is the third quarter of 2026. `real_gdp_growth` is the headline number of each release: growth from the quarter before, at an annual rate. For year-over-year growth, request `real_gdp` and read `change_year_pct`. It is 2.1 for the third quarter of 2026.

For the latest print of all 12 series in one call, use the snapshot.

```python
url = "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/macro/gdp/snapshot"
```

To see every series id with its units and first available date, call the series list. It is free and needs no API key.

```python
url = "https://api.financialdatasets.ai/macro/gdp/series/"
```

The [GDP API docs](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/api/macro/gdp/historical) describe every series and field.

## Every estimate, within minutes

Each quarter of GDP is estimated three times, about a month apart: the advance, second, and third estimate. We check for new figures every five minutes on release mornings, so an estimate is in the API within minutes of its 8:30 am ET release. History always holds the latest published values.

To get each estimate pushed to you instead of polling, subscribe to the `gdp.created` [webhook](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/webhooks/events). It fires once for each estimate of a quarter and once for each new month of personal income. The payload carries the figures.

## What is covered

- Real GDP growth for every quarter since 1947, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate.
- Real GDP in chained 2017 dollars and nominal GDP in current dollars, in billions, since 1947.
- The contributions of consumer spending, private investment, net exports, and government to growth, in percentage points. The four add up to the headline rate.
- The income side: real gross domestic income growth and corporate profits, since 1947.
- Households: personal income and the saving rate for every month since 1959, and real consumer spending since 2007.
- The change from the prior period and from a year earlier on every row, so you do not compute it yourself.
- AI agents reach the same data through the [MCP server](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/mcp-server), or pay per request with [x402](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/x402) and no account.
Latest updates

November 9
[US GDP DATA IS LIVE: 12 SERIES BACK TO 1947](https://www.financialdatasets.ai/news/gdp-data)

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