Table 20.2.—Selected Data of Nonbank U.S. Affiliates by Country of Ultimate Beneficial Owner, 1996

	Millions of dollars				Thousands of employees	Millions of dollars
	Gross product	Sales	Net income	Compensation of employees		Total assets	Gross property, plant, and equipment		Expenditures for new plant and equipment	Research and development expenditures	U.S. exports of goods shipped by affiliates	U.S. imports of goods shipped to affiliates
							Total	Of which:
								Commercial property
All countries	339,485	1,596,022	21,110	210,378	4,977.5	2,613,985	797,647	166,807	84,142	17,150	136,588	252,990
Canada	30,026	121,650	5,035	19,868	618.6	263,862	74,315	19,085	5,993	1,397	5,658	14,123
Europe	218,174	881,931	15,885	136,653	3,103.9	1,507,678	440,786	66,192	42,608	12,516	63,104	86,533
Austria	387	2,513	12	303	7.0	5,000	557	60	60	7	420	484
Belgium	4,531	19,437	581	2,250	103.5	15,850	10,985	2,138	1,281	80	633	1,427
Denmark	1,890	4,514	-151	1,572	71.8	4,061	1,842	123	267	106	493	699
Finland	1,632	9,954	-215	1,343	25.4	6,654	2,648	191	250	113	1,118	1,587
France	32,584	127,434	3,120	19,977	411.8	274,775	74,447	13,642	7,013	1,712	18,386	12,888
Germany	40,467	168,151	3,096	27,598	610.2	249,891	81,310	13,248	10,362	3,084	13,493	28,304
Ireland	2,505	8,281	204	1,545	37.2	10,374	5,503	339	284	48	335	261
Italy	2,827	13,904	-18	2,078	50.7	20,314	5,232	638	513	130	983	3,230
Liechtenstein	149	582	-29	132	2.5	760	539	318	19	2	42	174
Luxembourg	678	4,215	-41	725	16.0	5,124	1,320	134	155	19	183	653
Netherlands	29,299	111,395	2,785	15,248	378.8	180,292	73,300	11,628	5,441	948	4,468	8,969
Norway	1,367	8,838	71	1,046	18.4	5,308	2,543	385	213	65	583	901
Spain	572	1,985	10	346	8.6	4,171	1,798	241	166	23	192	194
Sweden	5,700	25,561	279	3,884	78.7	33,577	7,652	1,233	889	276	2,811	5,192
Switzerland	19,461	96,026	310	16,544	306.2	275,890	29,683	3,362	3,216	3,375	6,457	7,550
United Kingdom	73,960	277,026	5,890	41,905	972.6	413,966	140,866	18,163	12,386	2,525	12,354	13,267
Other	164	2,114	-19	156	4.4	1,672	561	349	93	2	156	753
Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere	12,699	53,767	147	6,446	155.4	57,482	27,203	6,214	2,928	386	5,725	10,621
South and Central America	7,914	35,613	-110	3,185	70.0	38,658	16,192	1,781	1,686	84	2,853	9,409
Brazil	283	4,462	160	279	4.5	10,652	957	155	104	(*)	1,192	1,241
Mexico	1,439	7,982	-643	1,213	35.8	8,454	3,204	752	347	60	688	2,248
Panama	819	2,316	-22	739	12.9	3,922	1,610	350	66	(/D/)	542	295
Venezuela	5,084	19,337	379	833	13.0	12,669	9,287	319	1,078	(/D/)	298	5,067
Other	290	1,517	17	121	3.7	2,962	1,134	206	90	(*)	132	557
Other Western Hemisphere	4,785	18,155	256	3,261	85.4	18,824	11,012	4,432	1,243	302	2,873	1,212
Bahamas	217	702	-25	190	6.3	1,421	883	429	65	(*)	1	6
Bermuda	2,488	11,684	-183	1,584	43.8	9,046	5,601	2,166	593	120	(/D/)	888
Netherlands Antilles	1,364	3,003	462	993	16.5	3,937	2,691	882	280	179	635	104
United Kingdom Islands, Caribbean	699	2,634	13	475	18.2	4,206	1,729	886	300	4	(/D/)	210
Other	17	133	-11	19	.7	213	107	68	4	(*)	48	4
Africa	2,555	10,605	733	1,157	22.7	11,708	(D)	258	(/D/)	81	522	560
South Africa	1,942	9,531	672	1,005	20.4	8,178	(/D/)	95	422	77	417	(/D/)
Other	613	1,074	61	152	2.3	3,530	4,635	163	(/D/)	4	105	(/D/)
Middle East	5,292	21,024	-258	2,001	61.8	26,501	20,298	14,490	855	121	607	5,481
Israel	391	2,513	-96	471	9.6	2,818	752	124	89	115	412	663
Kuwait	709	1,500	230	139	5.2	7,418	7,137	6,400	135	(*)	4	20
Lebanon	177	482	-23	105	2.9	905	899	447	35	(*)	60	(*)
Saudi Arabia	3,410	14,776	-63	871	26.4	11,985	8,668	5,310	346	5	106	(/D/)
United Arab Emirates	144	327	-5	41	1.1	1,966	2,133	1,834	157	0	19	(/D/)
Other	461	1,427	-300	373	16.6	1,410	709	375	94	1	6	5
Asia and Pacific	65,469	487,580	-3,370	42,107	972.9	635,683	205,841	59,393	27,257	2,592	60,077	134,416
Australia	5,539	23,013	243	3,345	77.4	44,617	15,157	2,662	1,141	56	1,268	1,375
China	179	1,821	-4	72	1.6	1,004	494	79	42	3	(/D/)	(/D/)
Hong Kong	1,403	6,848	-199	993	36.8	8,406	5,572	3,859	313	7	71	1,142
Indonesia	202	986	-12	154	5.7	765	361	170	27	0	119	18
Japan	54,560	418,320	-2,271	34,524	776.4	549,408	168,399	47,741	23,473	2,070	52,555	117,433
Korea, Republic of	1,102	22,476	-611	1,070	22.6	12,706	4,086	867	686	351	3,642	10,707
Malaysia	395	1,388	-24	327	9.5	1,804	794	437	44	9	(/D/)	30
New Zealand	348	1,755	-45	302	7.6	1,100	760	48	27	3	30	364
Philippines	38	126	13	18	.7	275	174	80	5	(*)	10	49
Singapore	159	1,794	-348	310	7.5	3,866	2,344	1,837	595	42	94	505
Taiwan	1,411	8,089	73	822	20.2	10,229	6,564	839	835	39	795	2,161
Other	134	963	-183	173	6.8	1,503	1,137	774	68	11	104	(/D/)
United States	5,270	19,466	2,938	2,146	42.2	111,071	(/D/)	1,175	(/D/)	57	894	1,255
Addenda:
European Union (15)/1/	197,068	774,840	15,531	118,824	2,773.5	1,224,534	407,801	62,052	39,099	9,072	55,867	77,182
OPEC/2/	10,086	37,504	634	2,162	52.6	37,437	31,445	14,091	2,037	14	548	9,903

* Less than $500,000.

D Suppressed to avoid disclosure of data of individual companies.

1. The European Union (15) comprises Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Prior to 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden were not members of the European Union.
2. OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its members are Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

Estimates for 1996 are preliminary.