Table 4.—Investment Outlays by Industry of U.S. Business Enterprise and by Country of Ultimate Beneficial Owner, 1990-96
[Millions of dollars]
| 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995/r/ | 1996/p/ | |
 Total |
65,932 | 25,538 | 15,333 | 26,229 | 45,626 | 57,195 | 80,537 |
| By industry: | |||||||
| Petroleum |
1,141 | 702 | 463 | 882 | 469 | 1,520 | (/D/) |
| Manufacturing |
23,898 | 11,461 | 6,014 | 11,090 | 21,218 | 26,643 | 28,976 |
| Food and kindred products |
997 | 1,247 | 404 | 1,294 | 4,567 | 3,802 | 1,239 |
| Chemicals and allied products |
7,518 | 2,897 | 1,644 | 5,035 | 6,905 | 12,511 | 4,038 |
| Primary and fabricated metals |
2,447 | 797 | 1,187 | 1,297 | 1,485 | 547 | 3,193 |
| Machinery |
3,795 | 4,929 | 1,002 | 1,778 | 1,867 | 4,489 | 4,673 |
| Other manufacturing |
9,141 | 1,591 | 1,778 | 1,686 | 6,393 | 5,293 | 15,834 |
| Wholesale trade |
1,676 | 623 | 698 | 837 | 2,156 | 1,168 | 5,092 |
| Retail trade |
1,250 | 1,605 | 256 | 1,495 | 1,542 | 2,838 | 3,216 |
| Depository institutions/1/ |
897 | 482 | 529 | 958 | 2,026 | 2,301 | 2,154 |
| Finance, except depository institutions/1/ |
2,121 | 2,199 | 797 | 1,599 | 2,195 | 7,837 | 7,709 |
| Insurance |
2,093 | 2,102 | 291 | 1,105 | 450 | 654 | (/D/) |
| Real estate |
7,771 | 3,823 | 2,161 | 1,883 | 2,647 | 2,996 | 2,955 |
| Services |
19,369 | 2,256 | 2,023 | 4,162 | 7,163 | 5,881 | 15,306 |
| Other industries |
5,716 | 284 | 2,101 | 2,218 | 5,760 | 5,359 | 8,942 |
| By country/2/: | |||||||
| Canada |
3,430 | 3,454 | 1,351 | 3,797 | 4,128 | 8,029 | 10,240 |
| Europe |
36,011 | 13,994 | 8,344 | 16,845 | 31,920 | 38,195 | 50,402 |
| France |
10,217 | 4,976 | 406 | 1,249 | 1,404 | 1,129 | 6,196 |
| Germany |
2,363 | 1,922 | 1,964 | 2,841 | 3,328 | 13,117 | 13,041 |
| Netherlands |
2,247 | 1,661 | 1,331 | 2,074 | 1,537 | 1,061 | 6,633 |
| Switzerland |
3,905 | 1,327 | 1,259 | 804 | 5,044 | 7,533 | 4,789 |
| United Kingdom |
13,096 | 2,169 | 2,255 | 8,238 | 17,261 | 9,094 | 15,473 |
| Other Europe |
4,183 | 1,939 | 1,129 | 1,639 | 3,346 | 6,261 | 4,270 |
| Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere |
796 | 375 | 1,438 | 874 | 1,352 | 1,550 | 771 |
| South and Central America |
399 | 108 | 1,152 | 527 | (/D/) | 1,283 | 396 |
| Other Western Hemisphere |
397 | 267 | 286 | 347 | (/D/) | 267 | 376 |
| Africa |
(/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) |
| Middle East |
472 | 1,006 | 238 | 1,308 | (/D/) | 447 | (/D/) |
| Asia and Pacific |
23,170 | 6,560 | 3,716 | 3,004 | 5,263 | 8,688 | 12,677 |
| Australia |
1,412 | 251 | 164 | 129 | 1,522 | 2,270 | 2,425 |
| Japan |
19,933 | 5,357 | 2,921 | 2,065 | 2,715 | 3,602 | 9,311 |
| Other Asia and Pacific |
1,825 | 952 | 631 | 810 | 1,026 | 2,816 | 941 |
| United States/3/ |
(/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | (/D/) | 201 | (/D/) | (/D/) |
D Suppressed to avoid disclosure of data of individual companies.
- Prior to 1992, "depository institutions" exclude, and "finance, except depository institutions" include, savings institutions and credit unions. Beginning with 1992, savings institutions and credit unions have been reclassified from "finance, except depository institutions" to "depository institutions."
- 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.
