GDP by industry: retail trade
Value added by retail trade (NAICS 44-45), the industry's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), in millions of current US dollars. United States and states: Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP by state, table SAGDP2, line 35.
Value added is sales minus the cost of goods sold and other inputs, so it is much smaller than retail sales. Millions of current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; for real growth of the whole economy use gdp_growth. Industries are the sectors of the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), counted where production takes place. The 20 sector values of a place add up to its gdp_usd, apart from rounding. BEA leaves out values that would disclose a single company, marked (D), and values below $50,000, marked (L); they are missing here, not zero.
Key facts
- GDP by industry: retail trade in the United States was $1.81 trillion in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- California had the highest GDP by industry: retail trade of 51 states in 2025, at $230.75 billion, and District of Columbia the lowest, at $2.31 billion. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 1997 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by GDP by industry: retail trade, 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- New Jersey
- New Hampshire
- Nevada
- Nebraska
- Montana
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