Utah worked its way to the second-largest increase among the states last year in gross domestic product — the total value of all goods and services produced, according to federal data released Wednesday.
Utah’s GDP increased by 4.3% in 2008, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Utah’s improvement was behind only the state of Washington, where GDP increased by 5.1%. Alaska was the worst performing among the states, where the GDP decreased by 0.3%.
Utah’s growth was the highest in recent years. Its GDP growth was 2.7% in 2017, 3.9% in 2016 and 4.