# What was the US GDP in 2005?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 18, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894 "2005-04-18T14:37:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894/1 "2005-04-18T14:37:45Z")

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I’m interested in finding out how much the US GDP was in dollars for 2005. I’ve tried googling but all the results take me to pages which explain the GDP in terms of growth from the previous quarter (which, when I go to check, gives the GDP in terms of growth from the quarter before _that_ and so on, ad infinitum) and I would really appreciate a figure in dollars with an accompanying cite. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894/2 "2005-04-18T14:40:06Z")

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Shit. I meant 2004, not 2005. Sorry, being a :wally today

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894/3 "2005-04-18T14:47:12Z")

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[U.S. Bureau of Economic Analaysis.](http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn1.htm)

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894/4 "2005-04-18T14:48:25Z")

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And in particular, [11.735 trillion in current dollars.](http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/newsrel/gdpnewsrelease.htm)

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894/5 "2005-04-18T14:52:36Z")

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. . . says the GDP in 2004 was $11.7 trillion.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-us-gdp-in-2005/299894/6 "2005-04-18T16:25:09Z")

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> [@manhattan](#):
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> And in particular, [11.735 trillion in current dollars.](http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/newsrel/gdpnewsrelease.htm)

So **that’s** where your “MPSIMS has become a cesspool” link came from! 😉  
An interesting read, but I didn’t see how it proved your case.