The Bureau of Economic Analysis released state-level GDP data for the first quarter of 2016 on Wednesday, July 27, 2016. The JEC Democratic staff analyzed the data and created a table with a state-by-state breakdown of real GDP growth, including the percentage change over the past year, over the past three years, since the national low point for GDP in Q2 2009 and since the national prerecession peak in Q4 2007.

The table shows that, over the past year (Q1 2015 to Q1 2016), real GDP grew in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Fourteen states posted real GDP growth of 3 percent or more. The fastest real GDP growth from Q1 2015 to Q1 2016 was in New Hampshire (4.1 percent), followed by Tennessee (4.0 percent), South Dakota, Washington and Maine (3.7 percent each).