July 11, 2025

New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2024

Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $151.0 billion in 2024, according to preliminary statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Expenditures decreased $24.9 billion, or 14.2 percent, from $176.0 billion (revised) in 2023 and were below the annual average of $277.2 billion for 2014–2023. As in previous years, acquisitions of existing U.S. businesses accounted for most of the expenditures.

Principal Federal Economic Indicators

Gross Domestic Product
Q1 2025 (3rd)
-0.5%
Personal Income
May 2025
-0.4%
International Trade in Goods and Services
May 2025
-$71.5 B
International Transactions
Q1 2025
-$450.2 B

Noteworthy

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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 1998 (final); Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 1998 (revised)

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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, July 1998

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1997 State Per Capita Personal Income and State Personal Income (revised)

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U.S. International Transactions, 2nd quarter 1998

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Personal Income and Outlays, July 1998

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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 1998 (preliminary); Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 1998 (preliminary)

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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, June 1998

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Personal Income and Outlays, June 1998

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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 1998 (advance); Revised Estimates: 1995 through 1st quarter 1998

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State Personal Income, 1st quarter 1998

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Duke Tran (202) 606-5344 (Analysis) Marian Sacks 606-9274 (Estimates)

All 50 states had growth rates in personal income in the first quarter of 1998 that were above the nation's inflation rate, according to estimates released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The five states with the fastest growth in personal income were Alaska, South…