Chart: Last two recoveries never achieved takeoff: Per capita growth in real gross domestic product in economic recoveries

Figure A

	1961Q1	1982Q4	1991Q1	2001Q4	2009Q2
-6					105.8236
-5		103.8492			104.8717
-4		102.3703			105.1609
-3	101.5714	100.4438		100.2621	104.4026
-2	101.3988	100.767	102.0077	100.5571	101.9581
-1	99.71863	100.1498	100.7817	99.97809	100.3413
0	100	100	100	100	100
1	101.4686	101.1032	100.4568	100.702	100.0958
2	102.734	103.1972	100.5798	101.0319	100.8314
3	104.3651	104.9606	100.6744	101.2678	101.0664
4	105.8701	106.8743	101.5636	101.0852	101.8536
5	106.6356	108.7891	102.3421	101.3979	102.3338
6	107.2359	110.4766	102.957	102.1111	102.7694
7	107.2212	111.2929	103.6296	103.5643	102.201
8	108.0543	111.9067	103.5179	104.5252	102.7703
9	109.1136	112.8097	103.8186	104.9224	102.7804
10	110.8183	113.6036	103.9686	105.4616	103.7355
11	111.182	115.0741	105.021	106.1562	104.2526
12	113.2334	115.6472	105.7673	106.8078	104.5664
13	114.2179	116.4889	106.8989	107.7179	104.4871
14	115.3498	116.7772	107.1827	108.0497	104.3091
15	115.3468	117.6621	108.0677	108.6801	104.8847
16	117.8702	117.9874	108.148	109.0273	104.9226
17	119.1559	118.5816	108.2178	110.0956	105.5253
18	121.1678	119.6613	108.7935	110.1765	106.3437
19	123.6273	120.4474	109.2309	109.9899	105.8508
20	126.3656	122.1338	109.6747	110.5681	106.7038
21	126.5494	122.577	111.2728	110.3923	107.7867
22	127.0649	123.9383	111.9367	110.9873	108.1898
23	127.7594	124.329	112.7596	111.4469	108.5657
24	128.6164	125.6631	113.3193	111.5605	109.0917
25	128.4113	126.6754	114.7001		109.4199
26	129.1609	127.385	115.7765		109.4544
27	129.8321	127.9813	116.3102		109.5152
28	132.1891	127.9039	117.1613		109.7251
29	134.1152	129.0123	117.9737		110.4683
30	134.7144	129.1093	119.1448		110.7772

Source: Author’s analysis of data from Table 1.1.6 from the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) from the Bureau of Economic Analysis

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