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, 1st quarter 1998 (preliminary); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 1998 (preliminary)

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

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Local Area Personal Income, 1996

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Personal Income and Outlays, March 1998

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Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 1998 (advance)

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1997 State Per Capita Personal Income and State Personal Income

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

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New Accounts Show Expanded Role of Transportation in the U.S. Economy

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Transportation accounts for a larger share of the nation's economy than traditional measures indicate, according to the newly developed Transportation Satellite Accounts (TSA's) released for the first time by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.

According to the TSA's, the value added to economic output by transportation activities totaled 5.0 percent of GDP; the traditional input-output accounting measure of value…

Personal Income and Outlays, February 1998

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Gross Domestic Product, 4th quarter 1997 (final); Corporate Profits, 4th quarter 1997

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