In 2024, the finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry contributed the highest amount of value to the GDP of the U.S. at 21.2 percent. The construction industry contributed around four percent of GDP in the same year.

Between 2019 and 2023, oil and gas explorers and producers logged the highest total revenue worldwide, reaching *** trillion U.S. dollars. Life and health insurance carriers followed behind.

As of January 2025, the most profitable industry in the United States was the tobacco industry, with a net profit margin of ***** percent. The profit margin of the entertainment software industry was not too far behind, with a net profit margin of *****.

In 2023, the government and government enterprises industry added the most real value to the gross domestic product (GDP) of the District of Columbia, amounting to around 44.91 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the information industry contributed around 12.89 billion U.S. dollars to the district's real GDP.

In 2024, the finance, real estate, insurance, rental, and leasing industry added the most value to the GDP of the United States. In that year, this industry added 6.2 trillion U.S. dollars to the national GDP. Gross Domestic Product Gross domestic product is a measure of how much a country produces in a certain amount of time. Countries with a high GDP tend to have large economies, for example, the United States. However, GDP does not take into consideration the cost of living and inflation rates, so it is not a good measure of the standard of living. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is thought to be more reflective of living conditions within a particular country. U.S. GDP California added the largest amount of value to the real GDP of the U.S. in 2022. California was followed by Texas and New York. In California, the professional and business services industry was the most valuable to GDP in 2022. In New York, the finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry added the most value to the state GDP. While the business sector added the highest value to the U.S. real GDP in 2021, it was the information industry that had the biggest percentage change in value added to the GDP between 2010 and 2021.

This statistic shows the top ten industries of high-growth companies in the United States as of 2016. In 2016, about **** percent of U.S.-based high-growth companies were specialized in information technology services.

The statistic shows the distribution of the workforce across economic sectors in the United States from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, 1.57 percent of the workforce in the US was employed in agriculture, 19.34 percent in industry and 79.09 percent in services. See U.S. GDP per capita for more information. American workforce A significant majority of the American labor force is employed in the services sector, while the other sectors, industry and agriculture, account for less than 20 percent of the US economy. However, the United States is among the top exporters of agricultural goods – the total value of US agricultural exports has more than doubled since 2000. A severe plunge in the employment rate in the US since 1990 shows that the American economy is still in turmoil after the economic crisis of 2008. Unemployment is still significantly higher than it was before the crisis, and most of those unemployed and looking for a job are younger than 25; youth unemployment is a severe problem for the United States, many college or university graduates struggle to find a job right away. Still, the number of employees in the US since 1990 has been increasing slowly, with a slight setback during and after the recession. Both the number of full-time and of part-time workers have increased during the same period. When looking at the distribution of jobs among men and women, both project the general downward trend. A comparison of the employment rate of men in the US since 1990 and the employment rate of women since 1990 shows that more men tend to be employed than women.

In 2021, the agriculture sector contributed around 0.94 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States. In that same year, 17.61 percent came from industry, and the service sector contributed the most to the GDP, at 76.4 percent.

In 2023, the finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry contributed the greatest real value to the gross domestic product of Wisconsin at 67.83 billion U.S. dollars. In the same year, the manufacturing industry added 55.09 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars of value to the state GDP.

The gross domestic product (GDP) of North Carolina in 2023 was around 638 billion U.S. dollars. In the same year, the construction industry added around 25.6 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars of value to the state GDP.

In 2023, around 678.2 billion 2017 U.S. dollars was added to the GDP of Georgia across all industries. In that year, the finance, insurance, and real estate industry was the most valuable, contributing 142.75 billion U.S. dollars. The utilities industry added a further 11.42 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars of value to the state GDP.

In 2023, the GDP of Tennessee was valued at around 422 U.S. dollars. The manufacturing industry contributed 57.71 billion U.S. dollars of value to the state's gross domestic product. The finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry contributed the most to the state's GDP with a value of 74.53 billion U.S. dollars in value added in the same year.

In 2023, the mining industry added around 1.65 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars of value to the state gross domestic product in Virginia. The professional and business services industry added the greatest value, with 136.16 billion U.S. dollars being added to the state's GDP during the same year.

As of 2024, more than one in ten unicorns in the United States were **************************** companies. ******* was second in the ranking of business sectors with the most unicorns, accounting for 11 percent of the total. AI unicorns also made it to the top three, with nine percent of all unicorns in the U.S. being AI companies.

In 2023, the GDP of New Hampshire amounted to around 93.47 billion U.S. dollars. The finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry added the most real value to the gross domestic product of the state, amounting to 20.36 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry added around 155 million U.S. dollars worth of value to the state's GDP.

This graph shows the GDP of the Los Angeles metro area in 2022, by industry. In 2022, its GDP amounted to about **** trillion U.S. dollars. About **** billion U.S. dollars were generated by the manufacturing industry. The overall quarterly GDP growth in the United States can be found here.

Gross domestic product of Los Angeles

With a population of over *** million inhabitants in 2011, Los Angeles is the second largest city in America, following only New York. The Los Angeles metro area also ranked second among U.S. metro areas in terms of gross metropolitan product, second again only to New York City metro area, which came in with a GMP of USD ***** trillion to Los Angeles’ *** billion USD in 2011. Chicago metro area ranked third with GMP of *** billion U.S. dollars. Washington metro area ranked fourth with *** billion U.S. dollars in 2011. Additional detailed statistics about GDP and GMP in the United States is available here.

Despite Los Angeles’ high GDP, L.A. did not do as well as some cities in terms of median household income. Los Angeles ranked 11th with a median household income of ****** U.S. dollars annually in 2013. This was lower than the median household income of the United States in 2013, which came in at ****** U.S. dollars annually.

Located in Southern California, Los Angeles is home to Hollywood, the famous epicenter of the U.S. film and television industries. The United States is one of the leading film markets worldwide, producing *** films in 2011, many of them produced by Hollywood-based studios. In 2012, movie ticket sales in North America generated over **** billion U.S. dollars in box office revenue. Famous Hollywood actresses earn millions annually, with the best paid, Angelina Jolie, earning ** million U.S. dollars between ********* and *********. Second on the list was Jennifer Lawrence with earnings of ** million U.S. dollars.

In 2023, the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry added 170.97 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars of value to the Texas GDP. The total value added to the GDP of Texas from all industries came to around 2.1 trillion chained 2017 U.S. dollars in the same year.

In 2023, the GDP of North Dakota amounted to around 60.35 billion U.S. dollars. The mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry added the most real value to the gross domestic product of the state, totaling around 10.63 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the manufacturing industry contributed around 4.32 U.S. dollars of value to the state's real GDP.

This statistic shows the industries where gig economy workers are currently employed in the United States in 2018. During the survey, 14 percent of respondents reported working in government or the public sector.

The gross domestic product of Missouri amounted to around 348.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. In that year, the manufacturing industry added 41.41 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars of value to the state GDP.