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

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Gross Domestic Product for the U.S. Virgin Islands Increases

December 14, 2016 | The BEA Wire

After declining for four consecutive years, the Virgin Islands’ economy grew in 2015.  Real GDP — adjusted to remove price changes—increased 0.2 percent in 2015, after decreasing 1.0 percent in 2014. For comparison, real GDP for the United States (excluding the territories) increased 2.6 percent in 2015 after increasing 2.4 percent in 2014.

Travel and Tourism Spending Accelerated in the Third Quarter

December 14, 2016 | The BEA Wire

Real Tourism Spending. –  Real spending on travel and tourism accelerated in the third quarter of 2016, increasing at an annual rate of 5.0 percent after increasing 4.5 percent (revised) in the second quarter according to new statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  By comparison, real gross domestic

Gross Domestic Product for U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), 2015

December 14, 2016 | News Release

This release is available as a PDF download.

 

Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts, 3rd quarter 2016

December 14, 2016 | News Release

Real spending (output) on travel and tourism accelerated in the third quarter of 2016, increasing at an annual rate of 5.0 percent after increasing 4.5 percent (revised) in the second quarter according to new statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. By comparison, real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 3.2 percent in the third quarter after increasing 1.4 percent in the second.

Gross Domestic Product by State: Second Quarter 2016

December 7, 2016 | The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia in the second quarter of 2016, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Real GDP by state growth ranged from 4.3 percent in Nebraska to –5.6 percent in North Dakota. Transportation and warehousing; health care and social assistance; and professional, scientific, and technical services…

Gross Domestic Product by State, 2nd quarter 2016

December 7, 2016 | News Release

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia in the second quarter of 2016, according to statistics on the geographic breakout of GDP released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Real GDP by state growth ranged from 4.3 percent in Nebraska to –5.6 percent in North Dakota. Transportation and warehousing; health care and social assistance; and professional, scientific, and technical services…

October 2016 Trade Gap is $42.6 Billion

December 6, 2016 | The BEA Wire

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit increased in October 2016 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit increased from $36.2 billion in September (revised) to $42.6 billion in October, as exports decreased and imports increased. The previously published September deficit was $36.4 billion. The goods deficit increased $6.3 billion in October to $63.4 billion. The services surplus…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, October 2016

December 6, 2016 | News Release

U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis NEWS U.S. Department of Commerce * Washington, DC 20230 U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES October 2016 The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that the goods and services deficit was $42.6 billion in October, up $6.4 billion from $36.2 billion in…

Economy of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Grows in 2015

December 1, 2016 | The BEA Wire

The economy of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands grew 3.5 percent in 2015, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

That 3.5 percent growth figure is for real GDP – that is, GDP adjusted for inflation. In 2014, the Northern Mariana Islands’ economy saw real GDP increase by 2.8 percent.  For comparison, real GDP for the United States (excluding the territories) increased 2.6 percent in 2015, after…

Personal Income Rises in October

November 30, 2016 | The BEA Wire

Personal income increased 0.6 percent in October after increasing 0.4 percent in September. Wages and salaries, the largest component of personal income, increased 0.5 percent in October—the same increase as in September.