In Focus: Global Supply Chains

Globalization has led to substantial changes in economic activity, a key aspect of which has been the fragmentation of production and supporting services activities. A variety of economic forces may drive firms to locate production and other activities abroad, leading to the formation of global supply chains. Global supply chains are worldwide networks of organization, technology, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product from a supplier to a consumer.

While no one set of statistics fully captures their complexity, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) publishes a variety of international trade and investment statistics that can provide valuable insight about global supply chains. BEA periodically highlights such insights in the In Focus: Global Supply Chains collection of Survey of Current Business articles. These articles are part of a broader BEA initiative to measure global supply chains.

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Changes in Host Country Employment for U.S. Multinational Enterprises, 2009–2022

BEA employment data, both domestic and foreign, of U.S. multinational enterprises (MNEs) provide insight into the impact of U.S. MNEs on the U.S. and foreign host country economies. The featured charts provide a clear view of time series trends of the top host countries.

December 23, 2024