Customers shop on July 12, 2023, in New York City.Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images Real gross domestic product, or real GDP, grew at an annualized rate of 2.4%. That advance estimate for the second quarter beat the 1.8% increase expected. The estimate is above the 2.0% annualized rate in the first quarter. The US economy was seeing growth surge in the second quarter of 2023, according to new data out Thursday morning.According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real gross domestic product, or real GDP, grew at an annualized rate of 2.4% in the second quarter of 2023.