American Context

DATA SOURCE · BEA

BEA Regional Economic Accounts

BEA API access requires a registered and active 36-character UserID.

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · U.S. Department of Commerce

  • Active
  • Primary government
  • Mixed

Corpus snapshot

As of May 31, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

Live counts from the American Context database. Counts reflect what has been ingested as of the timestamp above — not necessarily every record held by the upstream source.

Metric observations

18,668

metric_observation

Source releases

4

tracked in source_release

Most recent release

BEA Regional BEA Regional state annual GDP bulk ZIP.

Release date
Apr 9, 2026
Retrieved
May 9, 2026, 05:35 PM UTC
Dataset
regional-state-annual
License
https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Release source ↗

Recent releases

  • May 9, 2026, 05:35 PM UTCBEA Regional BEA Regional state annual income and employment bulk ZIP.regional-state-annual
  • May 9, 2026, 04:22 PM UTCBEA Regional state annual economy metrics 2023regional-state-annual
  • May 7, 2026, 09:18 PM UTCBEA Regional state annual economy metrics 2024regional-state-annual

What we ingest

Active datasets that flow into the American Context corpus.

DatasetGeographyTimeCadenceCaveats
BEA Regional state annual GDP, income, and employment
regional-state-annual

Official BEA Regional annual national and state metrics: current-dollar GDP, real GDP, personal income, per-capita personal income, and total employment jobs.

national, stateyear, release_date—
  • · Keyed metadata discovery, API-vs-bulk comparison, full BEA bulk source_release/source_quality_audit evidence persistence, exact 51-state/DC GeoFips crosswalk prep, no-write loader dry-run validation, guarded API metric persistence, and full historical bulk metric persistence passed before activation.
  • · Use datasetname=Regional; legacy RegionalIncome and RegionalProduct datasets are deprecated.
  • · County, MSA, BEA region, quarterly, and industry-detail rows are deferred until their crosswalk and dimension semantics are validated.

How American Context connects this

  • ›An agency publishes a dataset.agency_publishes_dataset
  • ›A dataset has a release.dataset_has_release
  • ›A release contains a statistical series.release_contains_series
  • ›A series measures a metric.series_measures_metric
  • ›An economic observation is tied to a geography.economic_observation_in_geo
  • ›An economic observation is tied to a time period.economic_observation_in_period

Coverage and limits

  • ·BEA API access requires a registered and active 36-character UserID.
  • ·GDP, real GDP, personal income, per-capita personal income, and BEA employment jobs have different unit and methodology caveats; do not combine without metric-specific labels.
  • ·BEA employment jobs must not be substituted for BLS LAUS unemployment, labor-force, or place-of-residence employment statistics.
  • ·Official bulk ZIPs should be used for release artifacts, checksums, and full backfills; 2024 national/California API-vs-bulk comparisons passed for all core annual metrics.

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