US economy growth rates have been minimal in six years

According to the results of 2016, the American GDP, according to preliminary estimates, increased by 1.6%. This was reported in a press release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the US Department of Trade of January 27.

As a result, the country's GDP growth rate has been minimal since the beginning of 2010, writes The Washington Post. Since the end of the latest recession in mid -2009, the US economy has grown an average of 2.1% annually.

In 2015, according to the Ministry of Trade, the US GDP grew by 2.6%. The federal reserve system predicted that according to the results of 2016, the indicator will increase by 1.9%.

In the fourth quarter of the last year, the US economy increased by 1.9% after lifting by 3.5% in the third quarter. In the second quarter, American GDP grew by 1.4%, and in the first quarter - by 0.8%.