ACADEC Economics Numbers 2025-26

Starred cards are more likely to show up as individual questions

31,530

The amount of items in the average supermarket

$3.39

The price of a barrel of oil in 1972

$31.77

The price of a barrel of oil in 1982 due to OPEC acting like a cartel

$10

The price of a barrel of oil in 1986 because the OPEC cartel didn’t effectively restrict production

40

The increase factor of the real GDP since 1900

4

The approximate increase factor of the U.S. population since 1900

9

The increase factor of the GDP per capita since 1900

$65,000

The average output per person in the U.S. in 2019

5

The factor between China’s population and the U.S. population

2/3

The fraction of the U.S. real GDP that is China’s real GDP

15%

The percent of the U.S. GDP per capita that is China’s GDP per capita

3.2%

The percent of the U.S. GDP per capita that is India’s GDP per capita

1.3%

The percent that the CPI overestimates inflation

60,000

The number of households surveyed by the BLS each month to calculate unemployment

260 million

The number of working-age people in the U.S.

160 million

The number of people in the U.S. labor force

61.4%

The labor force participation rate in the U.S. in 2020

143.5 million

The number of people in the labor force who had jobs in the U.S. in 2020

16.3 million

The number of unemployed Americans in 2020

10.2%

The unemployment rate in July 2020

3.4%

The unemployment rate in 2019

12

The number of regional banks in the Federal Reserve System

7

The number of members on the Fed board of governors

14

The term length in years of Fed board governors

5

The number of regional bank president on the FOMC

6

The number of weeks between meetings of the FOMC

0%

The reserve requirement for the U.S. as of 2020

8.6

The increase factor of the CPI from 1960 to 2019

25%

The approximate percent fall in price level during the Great Depression

2

The number of quarters of consecutive real GDP decline used to indicate a recession

3

The number of recessions lasting more than twelve months since WWII

100

The number of satellites built by SpaceX each month

12,000

The number of satellites SpaceX is working toward to using

3

The approximate time in months it takes to estimate the GDP

2nd

The place of California out of all states for the share of electricity used for manufacturing in 1920

78%

The percentage of manufacturing that used electricity in 1929

93

The number of buildings in the River Rouge Plant

$780 to $360

The decrease in price of a Model T

1.42%

The average percent growth rate of productivity each year from 1913 to 1928

5%

The average percent increase of worker productivity in the manufacturing sector during the 1920s

2

The increase factor of high school graduation rates in the Northeast from 1920 to 1935

4

The increase factor of high school graduation rates in the Midwest from 1920 to 1935

10%

The average high school graduation rate outside the South in 1910

50%

The average high school graduation rate outside the South in 1935

$480

The national per capita income in 1900

$681

The national per capita income in 1929

60%

The percentage of households with a car by 1930

4.5%

The percent consumer debt to income ratio in 1919

9%

The percent consumer debt to income ratio in 1929

$8 billion

The national mortgage debt in 1919

$27 billion

The national mortgage debt in 1927

47.1%

The percent increase of assets of building and loan associations in the Western states in the 1920s

25%

The national percent increase of assets of building and loan associations in the 1920s

50%

The percent increase in stock prices from 1926 to 1928

2

The increase factor in stock prices from 1928 to 1929

30%

The percent decrease in the spending at the municipal level during the Great Depression

350,000

The annual immigration maximum quota in 1921

165,000

The annual immigration maximum quota in 1924

20%

The average tariff rate in 1932, more than double 1920

4%

The percent of the GDP that net federal outlays were before the Great Depression

19%

The average percent the federal government has accounted for the GDP since 1947

80,000

The number of tractors in 1918

850,000

The number of tractors in 1929

1/6

The fraction of American farms that faced foreclosure between 1921 and 1929

1/2

The fraction of the pre-crash stock prices that was the stock prices in 1931

1/2

The fraction of the 1931 stock prices that was the stock prices in 1932

2%

The average percent of long-run economic growth each year in the U.S.

1% to 2%

The range of percentage decreases of the real GDP that characterizes most recessions

50%

The percentage decrease of the manufacturing sector during the Great Depression

1%

The percentage of the GDP that was new investment in the 1930s

55%

The percent decrease in agricultural goods from 1929 to 1933

1/2

The fraction of banks in 1929 that hadn’t failed by 1933

1/3

The fraction building and loan associations that disappeared after 1929

1/3

The fraction of pre-crash levels of imports with 75 countries that was the level in 1932

11%

The percent dip in the GDP during the 1937 recession

2

The increase factor of reserve requirement in 1937

33%

The percent lower the Gross National Product is because of the Great Depression

10

The amount of time in months it took for the discount rate to halve during the Great Recession

2

The amount of time in years it took for the discount rate to halve during the Great Depression

$700 billion

The amount spent by the Obama administration purchasing troubled assets from banks

$800 billion

The value of the 2009 stimulus package pushed by the Obama administration