Wichita economy shrinks

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The data for 2016 has been revised, and for Wichita the revision was large and significant. Please see Wichita economy shrinks, and a revision for updates.

The Wichita-area economy was smaller in 2016 than the year before.

The Wichita MSA economy produced fewer goods and services in 2016 than in 2015, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

In real (inflation-adjusted) dollars, the Wichita metropolitan area gross domestic product fell by 1.4 percent. For all metropolitan areas, GDP grew by 1.7 percent.

Since 2001, GDP for all metropolitan areas grew by 29.3 percent, while Wichita had 12.3 percent growth.

BEA offers these definitions:

Gross domestic product (GDP) by metropolitan area is the sub-state counterpart of the Nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the Bureau’s featured and most comprehensive measure of U.S. economic activity. GDP by metropolitan area is derived as the sum of the GDP originating in all the industries in the metropolitan area.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the value of the goods and services produced by the nation’s economy less the value of the goods and services used up in production. GDP is also equal to the sum of personal consumption expenditures, gross private domestic investment, net exports of goods and services, and government consumption expenditures and gross investment.

Current-dollar statistics are valued in the prices of the period when the transactions occurred–that is, at “market value.” Also referred to as “nominal GDP” or “current-price GDP.”

Real values are inflation-adjusted statistics–that is, these exclude the effects of price changes.

Wichita and US GDP. Click for larger.

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