| The Associated Press analyzed nine economic recoveries since the Great Depression that have lasted at least three years. By most measures, the recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2009 is the weakest. Gross domestic product, or GDP _ the broadest measure of economic output _ has never grown so slowly. |
| Here is how much GDP grew, adjusted for inflation, in the first three years after a recession. For example, GDP in the April-June quarter this year was 6.8 percent higher than in the same quarter of 2009. |
| 1948-1949 +25.4 percent |
| 1953-1954 +12.4 percent |
| 1960-1961 +18.4 percent |
| 1969-1970 +16.4 percent |
| 1973-1975 +14.1 percent |
| 1981-1982 +18.5 percent |
| 1990-1991 +9.8 percent |
| 2001 +9.0 percent |
| 2007-2009 +6.8 percent |