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

Personal Income, August 1999

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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 1999 (final); Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 1999 (revised)

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Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the second quarter of 1999, according to revised estimates released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 4.3 percent. Real GDP increased $31.…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, July 1999

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U.S. International Transactions, 2nd quarter 1999

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Personal Income, July 1999

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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 1999 (preliminary); Corporate Profits, 2nd quarter 1999 (preliminary)

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Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the second quarter of 1999, according to preliminary estimates released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 4.3 percent. Real GDP increased…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services June 1999

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Personal Income, June 1999

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Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 1999 (advance)

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State Personal Income, 1st quarter 1999

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Idaho and Maine led the nation in personal income growth in the first quarter of 1999, according to estimates released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.