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BY CLEBER DA SILVA

U.S. ANNUAL DATA (2000 - 2009)
REAL GDP GROWTH, INFLATION RATES, and UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
NOVEMBER 2012
Sources:

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Department of Labor).
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Department of Commerce).

Trends Since 2000
This has been a tumultuous decade for the United
States. During the first 10 years of the 21st Century, there was a major terrorist attack, a housing meltdown, a severe economic recession, and a significant downturn in the U.S. stock market. Unemployment recently passed the 10 percent mark for the first time since 1983.
Household net worth dropped by more than $10 trillion during the recession— the largest loss of wealth since the federal government started keeping records of wealth accumulation 50 years ago. Trends in stock market indicators, household wealth, consumer confidence, and labor force participation are widely reported and used to measure the health of the U.S. economy. Since the beginning of the current recession, homeownership and mobility rates have dropped, poverty has increased, and commuting patterns have shifted toward greener, more cost-effective options.

SINCE
2000,

Since 2000, more than 26 million people have been added to the U.S. population. During the past nine years, the population grew at a rate of just under 1 percent per year, high compared with other developed countries but the U.S. population has low compared with the 1.3 percent annual growth during the 1990s, when increased by more than nearly 33 million people were added to the population. U.S. population
26 million people. growth has slowed slightly in the past few years, mostly because of a drop in net international migration. At the beginning of the decade, the Census
Bureau estimated net international migration at about 1.2 million per year. By 2009, that annual number had been revised to less than
900,000. The drop also means that a smaller