Table 4.—Investment Outlays by Industry of U.S. Business Enterprise and by Country of Ultimate Beneficial Owner, 1992-98
[Millions of dollars]
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997/r/ | 1998/p/ | |
 Total |
15,333 | 26,229 | 45,626 | 57,195 | 79,929 | 69,708 | 201,027 |
| By industry: | |||||||
| Petroleum |
463 | 882 | 469 | 1,520 | 1,059 | 762 | 72,136 |
| Manufacturing |
6,014 | 11,090 | 21,218 | 26,643 | 27,835 | 19,603 | 89,679 |
| Food and kindred products |
404 | 1,294 | 4,567 | 3,802 | 1,145 | 1,949 | 1,556 |
| Chemicals and allied products |
1,644 | 5,035 | 6,905 | 12,511 | 3,961 | 4,539 | 4,168 |
| Primary and fabricated metals |
1,187 | 1,297 | 1,485 | 547 | 3,222 | 1,327 | 1,877 |
| Machinery |
1,002 | 1,778 | 1,867 | 4,489 | 4,355 | 4,788 | 21,951 |
| Other manufacturing |
1,778 | 1,686 | 6,393 | 5,293 | 15,151 | 7,000 | 60,127 |
| Wholesale trade |
698 | 837 | 2,156 | 1,168 | 4,746 | 2,612 | 907 |
| Retail trade |
256 | 1,495 | 1,542 | 2,838 | 2,988 | 435 | 1,963 |
| Depository institutions |
529 | 958 | 2,026 | 2,301 | 1,944 | 3,547 | 1,104 |
| Finance, except depository institutions |
797 | 1,599 | 2,195 | 7,837 | 8,676 | 7,019 | 6,195 |
| Insurance |
291 | 1,105 | 450 | 654 | 4,688 | 8,526 | 4,325 |
| Real estate |
2,161 | 1,883 | 2,647 | 2,996 | 4,175 | 4,119 | 5,272 |
| Services |
2,023 | 4,162 | 7,163 | 5,881 | 15,292 | 12,187 | 9,951 |
| Other industries |
2,101 | 2,218 | 5,760 | 5,359 | 8,528 | 10,898 | 9,496 |
| By country/1/: | |||||||
| Canada |
1,351 | 3,797 | 4,128 | 8,029 | 9,700 | 11,755 | 21,480 |
| Europe |
8,344 | 16,845 | 31,920 | 38,195 | 49,427 | 44,014 | 160,612 |
| France |
406 | 1,249 | 1,404 | 1,129 | 6,021 | 2,578 | 14,129 |
| Germany |
1,964 | 2,841 | 3,328 | 13,117 | 12,858 | 6,464 | 39,949 |
| Netherlands |
1,331 | 2,074 | 1,537 | 1,061 | 6,476 | 10,244 | 19,446 |
| Switzerland |
1,259 | 804 | 5,044 | 7,533 | 4,910 | 6,745 | 3,637 |
| United Kingdom |
2,255 | 8,238 | 17,261 | 9,094 | 14,757 | 11,834 | 76,881 |
| Other Europe |
1,129 | 1,639 | 3,346 | 6,261 | 4,405 | 6,149 | 6,570 |
| Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere |
1,438 | 874 | 1,352 | 1,550 | 1,790 | 924 | 10,457 |
| South and Central America |
1,152 | 527 | (/D/) | 1,283 | (/D/) | 166 | 813 |
| Other Western Hemisphere |
286 | 347 | (/D/) | 267 | (/D/) | 758 | 9,644 |
| Africa |
(/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | 145 |
| Middle East |
238 | 1,308 | (/D/) | 447 | (/D/) | 847 | 2,968 |
| Asia and Pacific |
3,716 | 3,004 | 5,263 | 8,688 | 12,751 | 11,786 | 5,207 |
| Australia |
164 | 129 | 1,522 | 2,270 | 2,222 | 7,600 | 1,726 |
| Japan |
2,921 | 2,065 | 2,715 | 3,602 | 8,813 | 2,326 | 2,872 |
| Other Asia and Pacific |
631 | 810 | 1,026 | 2,816 | 1,716 | 1,860 | 609 |
| United States/2/ |
(/D/) | (/D/) | 201 | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | 159 |
D Suppressed to avoid disclosure of data of individual companies.
- For investments in which more than one investor participated, each investor and each investor's outlays are classified by country of each ultimate beneficial owner.
- See footnote 4 in text for explanation.
