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Macroeconomic Outlook Report: United States

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    Country Profile

  • 46 Pages
  • March 2026
  • Region: United States
  • GlobalData
  • ID: 4470640
Financial intermediation, real estate, and business activities contributed 34.6% to the gross value added (GVA) in 2025, followed by wholesale, retail trade, and hotels (15.3%) and mining, manufacturing, and utilities (12.5%). In nominal terms, these three sectors are expected to grow by 4.4%, 3.9%, and 3.0%, respectively, in 2026.

Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) of New York, Austin, San Francisco, and Chicago contributed 15.0% to the US GDP in 2025 and accounted for 10.6% of the population.

The S&P 500 Index exhibited an upward trend over the past year. As of March 10, 2026, the index stood at 6,796.0, compared to 5,614.6 on March 10, 2025.

Report Scope

  • Macroeconomic Country Outlook Reports evaluate a country's investment potential through its political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) framework.
  • This comprehensive analysis offers a holistic view of the economy, serving as a strategic tool to understand market dynamics, business potential, and operational direction. Each PESTLE factor is examined based on four parameters: current strengths, current challenges, future prospects, and future risks.
  • These insights support strategic planning by highlighting opportunities and risks within the economy, helping businesses and investors make informed decisions. The report aims to provide a detailed understanding of the country's macroeconomic environment to facilitate effective decision-making and strategy development.

Reasons to Buy

  • Macroeconomic Outlook Report identifies the potentials of the country as an investment destination by analyzing the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure.
  • PESTLE Insights provides 360 degree view of the economy which can be used as a strategic tool to understand the market dynamics, business potentials and direction of operations
  • Along with providing the country’s snapshot, the report captures the risk factors pertaining to the macroeconomic risks, political environment, legal environment, demographic and social structure effectiveness, technology & infrastructure and natural and geographic aspects that might impact business.
  • This report also highlights key clusters/cities which contribute significantly to the country GDP and population along with major companies’ presence in these areas.

Table of Contents

List of Exhibits
  • Did You Know?
  • Country Highlights
  • Key Economic Updates
  • Trump’s Tariffs - Key Updates
  • Country Snapshot
  • Political Landscape
  • Economic Landscape
  • Social Landscape
  • Technological Landscape
  • Legal Landscape
  • Environmental Landscape
  • Outlook
List of Figures
  • Exhibit 1: US’s Performance in Terms of its Country Risk Analysis in Comparison to Americas and the World
  • Exhibit 2: Performance Overview (Score: 0-100)
  • Exhibit 3: Broad Categories and Weights Behind the Index
  • Exhibit 4: S&P 500 Index, (March 2025 - March 2026)
  • Exhibit 5: Key Sectors’ Contribution to the Economy
  • Exhibit 6: FDI Flows and FDI Stock (2020-24)
  • Exhibit 7: Greenfield FDI Projects and Net Cross-border M&A Deals (2020-24)
  • Exhibit 8: Key Infrastructure Indicators
  • Exhibit 9: Real GDP and Household Consumption Growth Rate (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 10: Real GDP Growth Rate Comparison (2025e)
  • Exhibit 11: Volume of Exports and Imports Growth (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 12: Current Account Balance (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 13: Top Three Commodity Exports, % of Total Exports (2021-25)
  • Exhibit 14: Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation, % of World Total (2024)
  • Exhibit 15: Interest Rates (March 2021 - March 2026)
  • Exhibit 16: Exchange Rate and Inflation Rate (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 17: Public Finance (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 18: General Government Debt (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 19: Unemployment Rate (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 20: Average Annual Wages (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 21: Labor Cost Index (2021-28f)
  • Exhibit 22: Rural/urban Share of Total Population (2020, 2025e, 2030f, 2035f)
  • Exhibit 23: Age-group Share of Total Population (2020, 2025e, 2030f, 2035f)
  • Exhibit 24: Gender Split (2020, 2025e, 2030f, 2035f)
  • Exhibit 25: Internet Users as a Percentage of Total Population, Mobile Penetration Rate, and Broadband Penetration Rate (2025e)
  • Exhibit 26: Number of Patents Granted Per Million Population (2024)
  • Exhibit 27: High-technology Exports, % of Manufactured Exports (2024)
  • Exhibit 28: Rule of Law Index (Rankings) 2025
  • Exhibit 29: Corruption Perceptions Index (Rankings) (2025)
  • Exhibit 30: Renewable Electricity, Installed Capacity (2021-25e)
  • Exhibit 31: CO2e emissions (2020-24)

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  • Google
  • Intel
  • Facebook
  • VISA
  • HP
  • Pepsico