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Table 2–2<br />

Supply-Side Components of Actual and Potential Real GDP Growth, 1952–2024<br />

Component<br />

History,<br />

peak-topeak<br />

Recent<br />

history,<br />

since peak<br />

1953:Q2 to 2007:Q4 to<br />

2007:Q4 b 2013:Q3<br />

Growth rate a<br />

Forecast<br />

2013:Q3 to<br />

2024:Q4<br />

Out-year<br />

forecast<br />

2020:Q4 to<br />

2024:Q4<br />

1. Civilian noninstitutional population aged 16+ 1.4 1.1 1.0 0.9<br />

2. Labor force participation rate 0.2 –0.7 –0.2 –0.3<br />

3. Employed share of the labor force 0.0 –0.5 0.2 0.0<br />

4. Ratio of nonfarm business employment to<br />

household employment 0.0 –0.5 0.0 –0.4<br />

5. Average weekly hours (nonfarm business) –0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0<br />

6. Output per hour (productivity, nonfarm business) c 2.2 1.7 2.1 2.2<br />

7. Ratio of real GDP to nonfarm business output c –0.2 –0.1 –0.3 –0.1<br />

8. Sum: Actual real GDP c 3.3 1.1 2.7 2.3<br />

9. Memo: Potential real GDP 3.3 2.0 2.3 2.3<br />

a. All contributions are in percentage points at an annual rate, forecast finalized in November 2013. Total may<br />

not add up due to rounding.<br />

b. 1953:Q2 and 2007:Q4 are business-cycle peaks.<br />

c. Real GDP and real nonfarm business output are measured as the average of income- and product-side measures.<br />

Note: Population, labor force, and household employment have been adjusted for discontinuities in the population<br />

series. Nonfarm business employment, and the workweek, come from the Labor Productivity and Costs database<br />

maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<br />

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Labor Productivity and Costs; Bureau of Economic<br />

Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts; Department of the Treasury; Office of Management and Budget;<br />

CEA calculations.<br />

The population is projected to grow 1.0 percent a year, on average,<br />

over the projection period (line 1, column 3), following the projection<br />

published by the Social Security Administration. Over this same period, the<br />

labor force participation rate is projected to decline 0.2 percent a year (line<br />

2, column 3). This projected moderate decline in the labor force participation<br />

rate reflects a balance of opposing influences: a negative demographic<br />

trend partially offset by increasing demand. The entry of the baby-boom<br />

generation into its retirement years is expected to reduce the participation<br />

rate trend by about 0.4 percent a year through 2020 and by about 0.3<br />

percent during the 2020-24 period (as can be seen in column 4). During<br />

the next several years, however, rising labor demand due to the continuing<br />

business-cycle recovery is expected to offset some of this downward trend.<br />

Young adults, in particular, have been preparing themselves for labor-force<br />

entry through additional education. The share of young adults aged 16 to<br />

24 enrolled in school between January 2008 and December 2012 rose well<br />

above its trend, enough to account for the entire decline in the labor force<br />

participation rate for this age group over this period. As these young adults<br />

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