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

The Latest

Gross Domestic Product and Corporate Profits: Third Quarter 2004 "preliminary" estimates

November 30, 2004 | News Release

Updated November 30, 2004. See the notice below.

New BEA Economic Areas For 2004

November 17, 2004 | News Release

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: September 2004

November 10, 2004 | News Release

Updated November 18, 2004. See the notice at the bottom of this page.

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Personal Income, September 2004

November 1, 2004 | News Release

The entire release is available in PDF format. The tables in this release are available in an XLS spreadsheet.

Gross Domestic Product: Third Quarter 2004 "advance" estimates

October 29, 2004 | News Release

The tables from this news release are available in XLS format and the entire release is available in PDF format.

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: August 2004

October 14, 2004 | News Release

The first two pages of this release are shown in plain text below.

Personal Income, August 2004

September 30, 2004 | News Release

The entire release is available in PDF format. The tables in this release are available in an XLS spreadsheet.

Gross Domestic Product and Corporate Profits: Second Quarter 2004 "final" estimates

September 29, 2004 | News Release

The tables from this news release are available in XLS format and the entire release is available in PDF format. Also available: a brief summary of highlights.

State Personal Income: Second Quarter 2004

September 28, 2004 | News Release

The tables in this release are available in an XLS spreadsheet and the entire release is available in PDF format.