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.

August 30, 2024

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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.

August 28, 2024

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.

August 27, 2024

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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.

August 22, 2024

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.

12 de agosto de 2024

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.

August 6, 2024