 The estimated annual growth rate of United States metro area economies from 2013-2020 is 2.9%, with $686.5 billion in 2013 and an estimated $838.2 billion in 2020.According to real gross metropolitan product and employment growth rates from 2013 to 2015, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area ranked number two according to its 2013 GMP.Its percent change in employment was 1.7 in 2013, 1.1 in 2014, and 1.5 in 2015 and its percent change in real GMP 2.7 in 2013, 1.8 in 2014, and 2.6 in 2015.