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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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2016 (advance estimate)

| News Release

Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.2 percent in the second quarter of 2016 (table 1), according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.8 percent (revised). The Bureau emphasized that the second-quarter advance estimate released today is based on source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see “Source…

Gross Domestic Product by State: First Quarter 2016

| The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 37 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2016, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  Real GDP by state growth, at an annual rate, ranged from 3.9 percent in Arkansas   to –11.4 percent in North Dakota.  Construction; health care and social assistance; and retail trade were…

Gross Domestic Product by State, 1st quarter 2016

| News Release

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 37 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2016, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Real GDP by state growth, at an annual rate, ranged from 3.9 percent in Arkansas to -11.4 percent in North Dakota. Construction; health care and social assistance; and retail trade were the leading contributors to U.S.…

Detailed Direct Investment Data for 2015 Now Available

| The BEA Wire

Detailed statistics on U.S. direct investment abroad – or “outward direct investment”– and on foreign direct investment in the United States – or “inward direct investment” – are now available on BEA’s website.

BEA Announces Selection of New Deputy Director

| The BEA Wire

Sarahelen “Sally” Thompson will become the Bureau of Economic Analysis’  new Deputy Director, starting on July 24.

Industry in Focus: Construction on the Rise

| The BEA Wire

Although the U.S. economy has changed considerably over time, construction is an industry that’s maintained its importance. We no longer depend on telegraphs as we once did, but we’ll always need a place to live. Construction also is an industry in which the products can differ to a great degree. While cellphones may be quite similar to one another, office buildings take shapes ranging from the Empire State Building to a one-story structure…

Gross Domestic Product by Industry: First Quarter 2016

| The BEA Wire

Construction; health care and social assistance; and retail trade were the leading contributors to the increase in U.S. economic growth in the first quarter of 2016. Overall, 11 of 22 industry groups contributed to the 1.1 percent increase in real GDP in the first quarter.

Gross Domestic Product by Industry, 1st quarter 2016

| News Release

Construction; health care and social assistance; and retail trade were the leading contributors to the increase in U.S. economic growth in the first quarter of 2016. According to statistics on the breakout of gross domestic product (GDP) by industry released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, 11 of 22 industry groups contributed to the overall 1.1 percent increase in real GDP in the first quarter.

What's New for the 2016 Annual GDP Update?

| The BEA Wire

The Bureau of Economic Analysis updates GDP figures and their major components every summer, sweeping in more comprehensive data that weren’t available for earlier estimates. The 2016 annual update, coming July 29, also will feature some of BEA’s efforts to continuously improve its measurement of the U.S. economy.

Summer updates to national income and product accounts incorporate data from annual Census Bureau surveys of businesses…

Guest blog: New Advance Economic Indicators Report Available This Month

| The BEA Wire

This is a guest blog by John H. Thompson, Director of U.S. Census Bureau