Between the 2009 recession and 2018, national GDP grew more than 22%. States, however, saw varying levels of growth: while the state of North Dakota more than doubled the national rate of growth, three other states saw their economies contract. Industries did not grow evenly either: the information and finance industries exceeded the growth rate of the whole economy while growth in the mining industry and from government activity stayed stagnant.
On the jobs side between 2009 and 2017, the total number of jobs grew by more than 13% with states with increasing populations in the South and West seeing the most gains. The health care and real estate industries saw their employment levels grow at high rates, while the job growth in the information and finance industries were far less pronounced than their GDP growth.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis compiles data that goes deep into various measures of the economy of the nation and the states.
