U.S. States Ranked by Real GDP Growth
Which state economies grew fastest after inflation? This table orders all 50 states by percent, annual change, using 2025 observations.
Fastest-growing state economies in 2025
Delaware ranks first at 5.13. The last-ranked state is Iowa, at -0.43. Equal displayed values share competition rank; alphabetical order within a tie does not establish a lead. These figures use the same period and definition.
Growth compares each state with its own preceding-year output. It measures proportional change, so it does not rank the dollar scale of the economy. The median of the 50 state observations is 1.94; this unweighted state median is not the national rate or total. Annual estimates remain revisable; source publication dates appear in the methodology below.
Complete ranking and historical periods
50 states · 2025 · Percent, annual change. Highest values first; ties share a rank.
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| Rank | State | Value | Rank one year earlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware | 5.13 | 50 |
| 2 | Alaska | 4.75 | 42 |
| 3 | California | 3.54 | 15 |
| 4 | South Carolina | 3.31 | 2 |
| 5 | Washington | 3.17 | 5 |
| 6 | Idaho | 3.05 | 4 |
| 7 | Kentucky | 3.00 | 40 |
| 8 | Georgia | 2.89 | 33 |
| 9 | Texas | 2.85 | 11 |
| 10 | Florida | 2.83 | 17 |
| 10 | West Virginia | 2.83 | 45 |
| 12 | Rhode Island | 2.79 | 13 |
| 13 | Utah | 2.69 | 1 |
| 14 | Illinois | 2.57 | 32 |
| 15 | New York | 2.48 | 9 |
| 16 | Connecticut | 2.46 | 37 |
| 17 | Ohio | 2.39 | 36 |
| 18 | Virginia | 2.32 | 24 |
| 19 | Oklahoma | 2.22 | 35 |
| 20 | Michigan | 2.19 | 44 |
| 21 | Tennessee | 2.05 | 19 |
| 22 | New Jersey | 2.01 | 16 |
| 23 | Nevada | 2.00 | 17 |
| 24 | Alabama | 1.98 | 25 |
| 24 | Montana | 1.98 | 25 |
| 26 | Vermont | 1.89 | 23 |
| 27 | Colorado | 1.87 | 43 |
| 28 | Indiana | 1.85 | 8 |
| 29 | Pennsylvania | 1.84 | 41 |
| 30 | North Carolina | 1.83 | 10 |
| 31 | New Mexico | 1.82 | 3 |
| 32 | South Dakota | 1.78 | 47 |
| 33 | New Hampshire | 1.70 | 27 |
| 34 | Louisiana | 1.54 | 12 |
| 35 | Hawaii | 1.52 | 20 |
| 36 | Arizona | 1.46 | 6 |
| 37 | Maine | 1.37 | 22 |
| 38 | Oregon | 1.36 | 31 |
| 39 | Massachusetts | 1.34 | 21 |
| 40 | Mississippi | 1.33 | 28 |
| 41 | Nebraska | 1.31 | 38 |
| 42 | Missouri | 1.22 | 29 |
| 43 | Kansas | 1.00 | 48 |
| 44 | Arkansas | 0.93 | 6 |
| 45 | Wisconsin | 0.82 | 29 |
| 46 | Maryland | 0.81 | 14 |
| 47 | Minnesota | 0.70 | 49 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 0.47 | 34 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 0.13 | 39 |
| 50 | Iowa | -0.43 | 46 |
Change period · Download displayed data
District of Columbia: -1.00 percent, annual change, shown separately and excluded from ranks.
Changing the period updates the table and export. The introductory analysis above concerns 2025. All historical choices use the same acquired revised history.
What changed in the ranking?
Delaware occupies position 1 in 2025 and occupied position 50 in 2024 within this acquired history. Compare the underlying levels before interpreting movement: other states’ changes can alter a rank even when a state’s own value barely changes. A change in rank is not itself a growth rate, and it cannot establish a policy cause.
A full-year comparison rather than a quarterly pace
The values compare annual real GDP in 2025 with annual real GDP in 2024. This avoids mixing a quarterly annualized pace with a full-year result. Annual estimates cover the entire year and are not the December value of a monthly series. A state can have a weak quarter late in the year while its annual average still rises.
The calculation uses a consistent state, table line and chained-dollar basis at both endpoints. BEA’s published growth rates can differ slightly from calculations based on rounded levels. This table identifies the figures as website calculations and provides the inputs in the state history download.
Base effects and the scale of growth
A percentage change divides the increase or decrease by the previous year’s level. A rebound after an unusually weak year can therefore produce a strong growth rate even when output has only returned to an earlier level. Use the state’s historical chart to distinguish a rebound from a sustained rise.
The rank does not identify how much a state contributed to national growth. A small state’s large percentage increase may add fewer dollars of output than a modest percentage increase in a large state. Growth contribution requires the appropriate producer contribution measure; it cannot be inferred from rank alone.
What industry detail can establish
A state profile shows the largest industries in current-dollar GDP. That provides context for the structure of the economy, but a large industry is not necessarily the industry responsible for the latest real growth. To identify drivers, an analyst needs industry growth contributions from compatible releases.
Do not sum chained-dollar industry components to recreate the state total. Chain-type weights change over time and make the components nonadditive outside the reference-year setting. The growth calculation here uses the published all-industry total directly.
Sources, formula and ranking methodology
Measure: BEA SAGDP1, line 1. Method: 100 × (annual real GDP ÷ preceding annual real GDP − 1). Rounded to two decimals for ranking; not quarterly annualized growth. The display and rank use 2 decimal places. Equal values receive competition rank; missing values are omitted from the ranked universe and reported in the table status. Filtering preserves national ranks.
Source file publication: September 30, 2026. Site acquisition: September 30, 2026. The annual GDP/income files contain 2025 observations; the price-parity file contains 2024 observations; labor series contain August 2026. These dates must not be relabeled as one current-month dashboard. Revised estimates in this acquisition are distinct from a historical release-vintage archive.
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