As concerns dispersion within the economies, before the crisis, the standard deviation of growth rates was around 2% in both the euro area and the United States.
This ongoing broad-based economic growth is largely echoed in the June 2018 Eurosystem staff 1/2  BIS central bankers' speeches  macroeconomic projections for the euro area. Real GDP is projected to increase by 2.1% in 2018, 1.9% in 2019 and 1.7% in 2020.