This slide deck highlights CBO’s key findings about the outlook for the economy as described in its report "An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034."
This slide deck highlights CBO’s key findings about the outlook for the economy as described in its new report, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034.
The document summarizes CBO projections for the US economy and federal budget. Key points include:
- Unemployment is projected to rise in early 2024 as economic growth slows. Inflation is projected to decline to the Fed's 2% goal by 2027.
- Primary deficits are projected to average 3.0% of GDP from 2024-2033, totaling around $10 trillion. Net interest costs are also projected to average 3.1% of GDP and total $10 trillion.
- Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach 118% of GDP by 2033, the highest ever, and grow to 195% of GDP by 2053 if current policies continue.
This document provides a summary of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) economic projections from 2020 to 2030. It notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread economic disruption. The CBO projects a rapid economic recovery in the second half of 2020 and 2021, but unemployment will remain above pre-pandemic levels through 2030. GDP will recover to its pre-pandemic level by 2022 and continue growing at a moderate pace similar to the past decade. Inflation will be stable around 2% after 2024. Interest rates will also remain low through the decade. The projections are highly uncertain due to many factors related to the ongoing pandemic.
In 2020, inflation-adjusted GDP is projected to grow by 2.2 percent, largely because of continued strength in consumer spending and a rebound in business fixed investment. Output is projected to be higher than the economy’s maximum sustainable output this year to a greater degree than it has been in recent years, leading to higher inflation and interest rates after a period in which both were low, on average. Continued strength in the demand for labor keeps the unemployment rate low and drives employment and wages higher. If current laws governing federal taxes and spending generally remained in place, the economy would expand at an average annual rate of 1.7 percent over the next decade, roughly the same rate as its potential growth.
Phillip L. Swagel presented CBO's updated budget and economic projections to J.P. Morgan's Virtual Investor Meeting on July 20, 2021. According to the projections, primary deficits will hover around 2% of GDP through 2029 and increase to 3% thereafter. Despite low interest rates through 2023, net interest costs will rise from 1.3% of GDP in 2024 to 2.7% in 2031. The projected deficit for 2021 increased by a third due to recently enacted legislation, while projected cumulative deficits for 2022-2031 were largely unchanged. Federal debt is projected to reach 106% of GDP by 2031, matching the previous peak in 1946.
This slide deck highlights CBO’s key findings about the outlook for the economy as described in its new report, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034.
The document summarizes CBO projections for the US economy and federal budget. Key points include:
- Unemployment is projected to rise in early 2024 as economic growth slows. Inflation is projected to decline to the Fed's 2% goal by 2027.
- Primary deficits are projected to average 3.0% of GDP from 2024-2033, totaling around $10 trillion. Net interest costs are also projected to average 3.1% of GDP and total $10 trillion.
- Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach 118% of GDP by 2033, the highest ever, and grow to 195% of GDP by 2053 if current policies continue.
This document provides a summary of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) economic projections from 2020 to 2030. It notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread economic disruption. The CBO projects a rapid economic recovery in the second half of 2020 and 2021, but unemployment will remain above pre-pandemic levels through 2030. GDP will recover to its pre-pandemic level by 2022 and continue growing at a moderate pace similar to the past decade. Inflation will be stable around 2% after 2024. Interest rates will also remain low through the decade. The projections are highly uncertain due to many factors related to the ongoing pandemic.
In 2020, inflation-adjusted GDP is projected to grow by 2.2 percent, largely because of continued strength in consumer spending and a rebound in business fixed investment. Output is projected to be higher than the economy’s maximum sustainable output this year to a greater degree than it has been in recent years, leading to higher inflation and interest rates after a period in which both were low, on average. Continued strength in the demand for labor keeps the unemployment rate low and drives employment and wages higher. If current laws governing federal taxes and spending generally remained in place, the economy would expand at an average annual rate of 1.7 percent over the next decade, roughly the same rate as its potential growth.
Phillip L. Swagel presented CBO's updated budget and economic projections to J.P. Morgan's Virtual Investor Meeting on July 20, 2021. According to the projections, primary deficits will hover around 2% of GDP through 2029 and increase to 3% thereafter. Despite low interest rates through 2023, net interest costs will rise from 1.3% of GDP in 2024 to 2.7% in 2031. The projected deficit for 2021 increased by a third due to recently enacted legislation, while projected cumulative deficits for 2022-2031 were largely unchanged. Federal debt is projected to reach 106% of GDP by 2031, matching the previous peak in 1946.
The document summarizes CBO's updated budget and economic projections from 2021 to 2031. It finds that primary deficits will hover around 2% of GDP through 2029, while net interest costs will rise from 1.3% in 2024 to 2.7% in 2031 due to mounting federal debt. The projected 2021 deficit has increased by a third due to recent legislation. Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach 106% of GDP by 2031, matching the previous peak in 1946. Outlays are projected to climb after 2024 as Social Security and healthcare costs rise along with interest rates, while revenues remain relatively flat, resulting in large deficits and rising debt levels.
In 3 sentences:
CBO projects that the federal budget deficit will continue to shrink in 2014 but federal debt will still be growing. If current laws generally remain unchanged, deficits will persist through 2024, pushing debt held by the public higher to 77% of GDP by 2024. Economic growth is expected to pick up over the next few years but then moderate, with the output gap closing by 2017.
The document summarizes the key projections from the Congressional Budget Office's budget and economic outlook report for 2023 to 2033. It notes that total deficits are projected to increase over the period due to rising net interest costs and mandatory spending programs. Federal debt held by the public is projected to rise to 118% of GDP by 2033. Spending on Social Security and Medicare is expected to increase mandatory outlays while discretionary spending declines as a share of GDP.
If current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal budget deficit would grow substantially over the next few years, CBO projects, with accumulating deficits driving debt held by the public to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028. That amount would be far greater than the debt in any year since just after World War II.
In CBO’s projections, real GDP growth is relatively strong this year and next, as recent changes in fiscal policy add to existing momentum. Between 2018 and 2028, real GDP expands at an average annual rate of 1.9 percent: Productivity growth returns to nearly its average over the past 25 years and recent changes in fiscal policy boost incentives to work, save, and invest; nonetheless, economic growth is held down by slower growth of the labor force.
This presentation provides an overview of the agency’s most recent budget and economic projections, which were published on April 9. It also includes a discussion of the effects of the 2017 tax act on those projections.
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The Congressional Budget Office presentation provides an overview of the US budget and economic outlook from 2018 to 2028. Key points include:
- Under current law, deficits will remain large as outlays and revenues increase in most years. Deficits will exceed their 50-year average throughout this period.
- Economic growth is projected to be faster in 2018 but then slow, with growth matching potential GDP after 2018.
- Federal debt held by the public is projected to rise significantly, reaching 96% of GDP by 2028, which would be the largest since 1946.
CBO projects a 2019 deficit of $897 billion, equaling 4.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The projected shortfall (adjusted to exclude the effects of shifts in the timing of certain payments) grows to 4.7 percent of GDP in 2029. Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach $16.6 trillion at the end of 2019. That amount would equal 78 percent of GDP—nearly twice its average over the past 50 years. Debt is estimated to reach $28.7 trillion, or 93 percent of GDP, by 2029, a larger amount than at any time since just after World War II. It would continue to grow after 2029, reaching about 150 percent of GDP by 2049.
Federal debt held by the public is projected to remain above 70% of GDP through 2023 under current law. Revenues are projected to rise from 17.5% of GDP in 2013 to around 19% of GDP from 2016-2023. Mandatory spending, driven by programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, is projected to increase from 13.1% of GDP in 2014 to 14.0% of GDP in 2022-2023. Discretionary spending is projected to decline slightly over the next few years but then rise, reaching 6.5% of GDP by 2023.
If current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal budget deficit would grow substantially over the next few years, CBO projects, with accumulating deficits driving debt held by the public to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028. That amount would be far greater than the debt in any year since just after World War II.
In CBO’s projections, real GDP growth is relatively strong this year and next, as recent changes in fiscal policy add to existing momentum. Between 2018 and 2028, real GDP expands at an average annual rate of 1.9 percent: Productivity growth returns to nearly its average over the past 25 years and recent changes in fiscal policy boost incentives to work, save, and invest; nonetheless, economic growth is held down by slower growth of the labor force.
This presentation provides an overview of the agency’s most recent budget and economic projections, which were published on April 9. It also includes a discussion of the effects of the 2017 tax act on those projections.
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, to the Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board.
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This presentation provides an overview of the agency’s most recent budget and economic projections, which incorporate the assumption that current laws governing taxes and spending generally remain unchanged. In those projections, federal debt held by the public grows sharply over the next 30 years, reaching unprecedented levels. The presentation also includes a discussion of the effects of the 2017 tax act and recent changes to federal spending policy on the projections. In addition, the presentation touches on budgetary outcomes under scenarios that include future changes to current law.
Presentation by John McClelland, CBO’s Assistant Director for Tax Analysis, at the International Tax Policy Forum.
Under CBO's extended baseline projections:
- Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach 100% of GDP by 2038 as budget deficits rise steadily over the long term due to increasing spending on major health care programs and Social Security as well as rising interest costs.
- Deficits are projected to grow from around 3.5% of GDP in 2023 to over 7% of GDP by 2038, pushing debt above the historical high reached just after World War II.
- Spending is projected to outpace revenues significantly after 2023, with revenues remaining between 17-19% of GDP and spending growing from over 20% of GDP currently to over 26% by 2038.
The presentation summarizes the Congressional Budget Office's 2022 long-term budget outlook projections over the next 30 years. Key points include:
- Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach 185% of GDP by 2052 due to growing deficits and rising interest rates.
- Net spending on interest will account for most of the growth in total deficits in the last two decades as interest payments rise rapidly.
- Both outlays and revenues are projected to be higher than historical averages but outlays will increase faster, resulting in larger budget deficits.
CBO projects rising budget deficits over the next decade, with debt levels exceeding those ever recorded. Spending is expected to outpace revenues due to an aging population, rising healthcare costs, and interest on the growing debt. Major trust funds risk insolvency within 10 years. While recent legislation has increased near-term deficits, changes to both spending and revenues will ultimately be needed to address rising debt burdens. The longer action is delayed, the larger the required policy adjustments.
In 2020, CBO estimates a deficit of $1.0 trillion, or 4.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Under current law, the projected gap between outlays and revenues increases to 5.4 percent of GDP in 2030. Federal debt held by the public is projected to rise over the coming decade, from 81 percent of GDP in 2020 to 98 percent of GDP in 2030. It continues to grow thereafter, in CBO’s projections, reaching 180 percent of GDP in 2050, well above the highest level ever recorded in the United States.
Presentation by Julie Topoleski, CBO’s Director of Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis, at the 16th Annual Meeting of the OECD Working Party of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
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CBO projects that the federal budget deficit will continue to shrink in 2014 but federal debt will still be growing. If current laws generally remain unchanged, deficits will persist through 2024, pushing debt held by the public higher to 77% of GDP by 2024. Economic growth is expected to pick up over the next few years but then moderate, with the output gap closing by 2017.
The document summarizes the key projections from the Congressional Budget Office's budget and economic outlook report for 2023 to 2033. It notes that total deficits are projected to increase over the period due to rising net interest costs and mandatory spending programs. Federal debt held by the public is projected to rise to 118% of GDP by 2033. Spending on Social Security and Medicare is expected to increase mandatory outlays while discretionary spending declines as a share of GDP.
If current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal budget deficit would grow substantially over the next few years, CBO projects, with accumulating deficits driving debt held by the public to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028. That amount would be far greater than the debt in any year since just after World War II.
In CBO’s projections, real GDP growth is relatively strong this year and next, as recent changes in fiscal policy add to existing momentum. Between 2018 and 2028, real GDP expands at an average annual rate of 1.9 percent: Productivity growth returns to nearly its average over the past 25 years and recent changes in fiscal policy boost incentives to work, save, and invest; nonetheless, economic growth is held down by slower growth of the labor force.
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- Economic growth is projected to be faster in 2018 but then slow, with growth matching potential GDP after 2018.
- Federal debt held by the public is projected to rise significantly, reaching 96% of GDP by 2028, which would be the largest since 1946.
CBO projects a 2019 deficit of $897 billion, equaling 4.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The projected shortfall (adjusted to exclude the effects of shifts in the timing of certain payments) grows to 4.7 percent of GDP in 2029. Federal debt held by the public is projected to reach $16.6 trillion at the end of 2019. That amount would equal 78 percent of GDP—nearly twice its average over the past 50 years. Debt is estimated to reach $28.7 trillion, or 93 percent of GDP, by 2029, a larger amount than at any time since just after World War II. It would continue to grow after 2029, reaching about 150 percent of GDP by 2049.
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If current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, the federal budget deficit would grow substantially over the next few years, CBO projects, with accumulating deficits driving debt held by the public to nearly 100 percent of GDP by 2028. That amount would be far greater than the debt in any year since just after World War II.
In CBO’s projections, real GDP growth is relatively strong this year and next, as recent changes in fiscal policy add to existing momentum. Between 2018 and 2028, real GDP expands at an average annual rate of 1.9 percent: Productivity growth returns to nearly its average over the past 25 years and recent changes in fiscal policy boost incentives to work, save, and invest; nonetheless, economic growth is held down by slower growth of the labor force.
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An Update to the Economic Outlook for 2024 to 2034 in 20 Slides
1. An Update to the Economic Outlook for
2024 to 2034 in 20 Slides
June 2024
These slides reprise information presented in Congressional Budget Office, An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034 (June 2024),
www.cbo.gov/publication/60039. For additional details, see Chapter 2 of that report. Definitions of terms used in this slide deck appear at the end of the document.
The years referred to in these figures are calendar years.
2. 1
GDP = gross domestic product.
Growth of Real GDP
Economic output is
projected to grow more
slowly in 2024 than it did last
year, as the growth of
consumer spending slows
and as the growth rate of
imports rises relative to the
growth rate of domestic
demand. Output is projected
to increase by 2.0 percent a
year in 2024 and 2025,
before settling at a growth
rate of roughly 1.8 percent a
year through 2034.
3. 2
GDP = gross domestic product.
Uncertainty of CBO’s Projections of the Growth of Real GDP
CBO estimates that there
is approximately a two-
thirds chance that from
2024 to 2034, real GDP will
grow by a total of between
15 percent and 29 percent,
and the annual growth rate
of real GDP will average
between 1.3 percent and
2.4 percent.
4. 3
GDP = gross domestic product.
Uncertainty of CBO’s Projections of Economic Output
CBO estimates that there is
approximately a two-thirds
chance that the annual
growth rate of real GDP will
be between 0.8 percent and
3.2 percent in 2024 and
between −0.5 percent and
3.9 percent in 2027.
5. 4
GDP = gross domestic product.
Average Annual Growth of Real Potential GDP and Its Components
Real potential GDP is
projected to grow by an
average of 2.1 percent a
year through 2029, faster
than it has since the
recession that began in late
2007. That faster growth of
potential GDP stems mainly
from CBO’s projection of a
surge in net immigration
through 2026, which
increases the projected
growth of the labor force.
6. 5
Payroll Employment: Average Net Monthly Change
The number of payroll
employees is projected to
grow more slowly from 2024
to 2029 than it has in recent
years as real output grows
more slowly than potential
output and as the growth of
the labor force slows in
2026.
7. 6
Unemployment Rate
The projected slowdown in
economic growth is
expected to raise the
unemployment rate
gradually through early
2030.
8. 7
Uncertainty of CBO’s Projections of the Unemployment Rate
CBO estimates that there is
roughly a two-thirds chance
that the average
unemployment rate in 2024
will be between 3.6 percent
and 4.0 percent.
9. 8
Wage growth is measured as the growth of the employment cost index for wages and salaries of workers in private industry from the fourth quarter of one calendar year to the fourth
quarter of the next year.
Wage Growth
Slowing demand for labor
and declining inflation are
projected to slow the growth
of nominal wages gradually
through 2029. Even so,
wage growth is projected to
remain above its
prepandemic 2015–2019
average through 2034.
10. 9
Labor Force Participation
Despite relatively high
participation rates among
recent and projected
immigrants, CBO expects
the effects of slowing
demand and the aging of
the population to reduce
the overall rate of
participation in the labor
force from 62.4 percent in
2024 to 61.9 percent in
2027.
11. 10
Growth of Real Residential Investment
The growth of real
residential investment is
expected to rise through
2025 as recent increases in
immigration and projected
declines in mortgage interest
rates boost the demand for
housing.
12. 11
GDP = gross domestic product.
Contributions to the Growth of Real GDP in the Near Term
In CBO’s projections, the
near-term slowdown in the
growth of economic output
stems largely from slower
growth in consumer
spending through 2026,
partly offset by faster growth
in residential investment and
exports.
13. 12
Overall Inflation and Core Inflation
The growth of overall prices,
as measured by the change
in the PCE price index,
jumped in the first quarter of
this year after declining
since 2022. In CBO’s
projections, overall inflation
declines during the rest of
2024 and in 2025, reaching
the Federal Reserve’s target
of 2 percent by 2026 and
stabilizing thereafter.
PCE = personal consumption expenditures.
14. 13
PCE = personal consumption expenditures.
Uncertainty of CBO’s Projections of Overall Inflation
CBO estimates that there is
approximately a two-thirds
chance that the inflation rate
as measured by the PCE
price index will be between
2.1 percent and 3.4 percent
in 2024.
15. 14
Values represent the contributions of each category of goods and services to the growth rate of the price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE). The sum of those
categories’ contributions equals the overall growth of that index. Values for 2000 to 2018 and for 2026 to 2034 are annual averages over those periods.
Contributions to Overall Inflation
Key reasons that inflation is
projected to be lower in
2024 than in 2023 include
the easing of upward
pressures on the prices of
goods because of improving
supply chains, rising
unemployment, and higher
long-term interest rates.
Those factors will be partly
offset in 2024 by strong
growth in the prices of some
services.
16. 15
Interest Rates
In CBO’s projections, the
Federal Reserve keeps
the federal funds rate at
5.3 percent through 2024
and then responds to
slowing inflation and rising
unemployment by cutting
that rate in the first quarter
of 2025. Starting this year,
the difference between the
federal funds rate and the
interest rate on 10-year
Treasury notes is
projected to gradually
revert to its long-run
average.
17. 16
Uncertainty of CBO’s Projections of 10-Year Treasury Note Rates
CBO estimates that there is
approximately a two-thirds
chance that the average
interest rate on 10-year
Treasury notes will be
between 4.1 percent and
4.8 percent in 2024.
18. 17
CPI-U = consumer price index for all urban consumers; GDP = gross domestic product.
Comparison of CBO’s Economic Forecasts With Those of the
Blue Chip Forecasters
19. 18
GDP = gross domestic product; SPF = Survey of Professional Forecasters.
Comparison of CBO’s Economic Forecasts With Those in the
Survey of Professional Forecasters
20. 19
CPI-U = consumer price index for all urban consumers; PCE = personal consumption expenditures; SPF = Survey of Professional Forecasters.
Comparison of CBO’s Inflation Forecasts With Those in the
Survey of Professional Forecasters
21. 20
GDP = gross domestic product; PCE = personal consumption expenditures.
Comparison of CBO’s Economic Forecasts With Those of
the Federal Reserve
22. 21
§ Real gross domestic product (GDP) is nominal GDP that has been adjusted to remove the
effects of changes in prices. Growth of real GDP is measured from the fourth quarter of one
calendar year to the fourth quarter of the next year.
§ Real potential GDP is the amount of real GDP that can be produced if labor and capital are
employed at their maximum sustainable rates.
§ The labor force consists of people age 16 or older in the civilian noninstitutionalized
population who have jobs or who are unemployed (available for work and either seeking work
or expecting to be recalled from a temporary layoff). The potential labor force is CBO’s
estimate of how big the labor force would be if economic output and other key variables were
at their maximum sustainable amounts.
§ The unemployment rate is the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed.
§ The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the civilian noninstitutionalized
population age 16 or older that is in the labor force.
Definitions
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§ Real residential investment consists of construction of single-family and multifamily
structures, manufactured homes, and dormitories; spending on home improvements; and
brokers’ commissions and other ownership-transfer costs.
§ The inflation rate based on the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index is
measured from the fourth quarter of one calendar year to the fourth quarter of the next year.
§ Core inflation—as measured by the PCE price index or the consumer price index for all urban
consumers (CPI-U)—excludes prices for food and energy.
§ The term “federal funds rate” refers to the effective federal funds rate—the median interest
rate that financial institutions charge one another for overnight loans of their monetary
reserves, weighted by loan volume.
§ Values for 2000 to 2024 reflect data available from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the
Bureau of Labor Statistics as of late May 2024. Those data contain updated values for the
first quarter of 2024, which were not available when CBO developed its current projections.
Definitions (continued)