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: September 2003

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Personal Income September 2003

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Gross Domestic Product Third Quarter 2003 "advance" estimates

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State Personal Income: Second Quarter 2003

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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: August 2003

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Capital Flows in the U.S. Economy, 1997

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The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today releases the capital flow data for 1997, which show which industries purchase what types of equipment, software and structures. This table is the latest in a series of tables that provide detailed information on the flows of investment in the U.S. economy. The capital flow table is an important supplemental table to the 1997 benchmark input-output (I-O) accounts.

Personal Income August 2003

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Tourism Satellite Accounts, Second Quarter 2003

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