August 2024
Preliminary Results From a New R&D Satellite Account: Experimental National and State-Level R&D Value Added, Employment, and Compensation Statistics, 2017–2021
Building on decades of collaborative research, these experimental statistics combine National Science Foundation R&D performance data with BEA's GDP estimation framework to expand BEA’s R&D measures at the national level and, for the first time, provide state-level R&D statistics.
New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States in 2023
Spending by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $148.8 billion in 2023, down $206.2 billion from 2022. Employment at these businesses was 110,000 workers.
Revisions to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Domestic Income, and Their Major Components
This analysis confirms that BEA's early estimates of the main measures the public relies on to grasp the pulse of the economy provide a reliable picture of current economic activity and that differences in later estimates are mostly due to new information and not systematic measurement errors.
Direct Investment by Country and Industry for 2023
Growth in the outward investment position increased $364.0 billion in 2023 to $6.68 trillion, up 5.8 percent from 2022. The inward investment position increased $227.0 billion to $5.39 trillion, up 4.4 percent from 2022.
La exportación de productos intensivos en propiedad intelectual es el factor clave del PIB de Puerto Rico
Una actualización de la investigación para evaluar el impacto general de estas industrias en la economía de Puerto Rico.
GDP and the Economy: Advance Estimates for the Second Quarter of 2024
Real GDP increased 2.8 percent in the second quarter of 2024, reflecting increases in consumer spending, private inventory investment, and nonresidential fixed investment.