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

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BEA on Track to Implement Third Phase to Combat Potential for Residual Seasonality in GDP

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis is on track to soon implement the third phase of a three-pronged plan to mitigate any potential for residual seasonality in gross domestic product.  That’s when seasonal patterns remain in the data even after they are adjusted for seasonal variations.

BEA laid out the plan in 2016, after conducting a painstaking component-by-component review of some 2,000 nominal data series included in GDP to…

April 2018 Trade Gap is $46.2 Billion

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit decreased in April 2018 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $47.2 billion in March (revised) to $46.2 billion in April, as exports increased and imports decreased. The previously published March deficit was $49.0 billion. The goods deficit decreased $1.0 billion in April to $68.3 billion. The services surplus decreased less than $0.1…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, annual update

| News Release

In this release and in the accompanying "U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: April 2018" release (FT-900), the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are publishing revised statistics on trade in goods and services. With these releases, statistics on trade in goods on a Census basis are revised beginning with 2015, and statistics on trade in goods on a balance of payments (BOP) basis and on trade…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, April 2018

| News Release

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit decreased in April 2018 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $47.2 billion in March (revised) to $46.2 billion in April, as exports increased and imports decreased. The previously published March deficit was $49.0 billion. The goods deficit decreased $1.0 billion in April to $68.3 billion. The services surplus decreased less than $0.1…

BEA Releases for the First Time Detailed Data on More than 200 Medical Conditions

| The BEA Wire

The Bureau of Economic Analysis for the first time released statistics that provide information on how much Americans spend to treat more than 200 specific medical conditions, such as acute myocardial infarctions, chronic kidney disease, and osteoarthritis.

The new statistics, which cover the years 2000 through 2014, are part of BEA’s Health Care Satellite Account created in 2015. The project offers a new way of analyzing health care…

Real Disposable Personal Income Increases in April

| The BEA Wire

Personal income increased 0.3 percent in April after increasing 0.2 percent in March. Wages and salaries, the largest component of personal income, increased 0.4 percent in April after increasing 0.2 percent in March.

Personal Income and Outlays, April 2018

| News Release

Personal income increased 0.3 percent in April after increasing 0.2 percent in March. Wages and salaries, the largest component of personal income, increased 0.4 percent in April after increasing 0.2 percent in March.

GDP Increases in First Quarter

| The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The growth rate was 0.1 percentage point lower than the “advance” estimate released in April. In the fourth quarter of 2017, real GDP rose 2.9 percent.

Gross Domestic Product: First Quarter 2018 (Second Estimate)

| News Release

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The growth rate was 0.1 percentage point lower than the “advance” estimate released in April. In the fourth quarter of 2017, real GDP rose 2.9 percent.

Real Personal Income for States, 2016

| The BEA Wire

The percent change in real state personal income ranged from 3.3 percent in Utah and Georgia to -3.6 percent in Wyoming. In the District of Columbia, real personal income grew 4.5 percent.