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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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, July 2017

| News Release

Total July exports of $194.4 billion and imports of $238.1 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $43.7 billion.

Gross Domestic Product for Guam, 2016

| News Release

This release is available as a PDF download.

 

Gross Domestic Product for Guam Increases in 2016

| The BEA Wire

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released estimates of gross domestic product for Guam for 2016, in addition to estimates of GDP by industry and compensation by industry for 2015.

These estimates were developed under the Statistical Improvement Program funded by the Office of Insular Affairs of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Revised estimates of GDP for 2013 to 2015, as well as revised estimates of GDP by industry and…

Personal Income Increases in July

| The BEA Wire

Personal income increased 0.4% in July after showing no change in June. Wages and salaries, the largest component of personal income, increased 0.5 percent in July, the same increase as in June.

Personal Income and Outlays, July 2017

| News Release

In July 2017, real disposable personal income increased 0.2 percent.

GDP Increases in Second Quarter

| The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 3.0 percent in the second quarter of 2017, according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The growth rate was 0.4 percentage point more than the “advance” estimate released in July. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.2 percent.

Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2017 (second estimate); Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 2017 (preliminary estimate)

| News Release

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.0 percent in the second quarter of 2017, according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.2 percent.

Measuring How Much People Save: An Inside Look at the Personal Saving Rate

| The BEA Wire

The personal saving rate, technically described by BEA as “personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income,” is the percentage households save of their after-tax income. For 2016, the rate was 4.9 percent. The saving rate is published monthly, quarterly, and annually with BEA’s Gross Domestic Product and Personal Income and Outlays statistics. Personal saving statistics are used by businesses, the White House and Congress, the…

BEA Releases New Health Care Statistics for 2014

| The BEA Wire

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released a new set of statistics detailing how much the United States spends to treat different diseases and medical conditions.

Statistics on the Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises Now Available for 2015; Revised Data Available for 2014

| The BEA Wire

Statistics detailing the activities of U.S. affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are now available from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The statistics, which provide new data for 2015, as well as revised data for 2014, offer details on the activities of U.S.