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Thursday, November 8, 2018 Contact: Jeannine Aversa, (301) 278-9003 Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises, 2016 Majority-owned U.S. affiliates (MOUSAs) of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) employed 7.1 million workers (preliminary) in the United States in 2016, a 3.9 percent increase from 6.8 million (revised) in 2015, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 Employment (left axis) 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Percent Millions of employees Employment by Majority-Owned U.S. Affiliates 0 Share of total U.S. private-industry employment (right axis) U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Highlights of the statistics on MOUSAs in 2016: • • • • • MOUSAs accounted for 5.6 percent of total private-industry employment in the United States. Current-dollar value added of MOUSAs, a measure of their direct contribution to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), increased 1.9 percent to $910.6 billion. Expenditures for property, plant, and equipment by MOUSAs decreased 1.2 percent to $258.9 billion. Research and development (R&D) performed by MOUSAs increased 6.0 percent to $60.1 billion. By state, private-industry employment accounted for by MOUSAs was highest in South Carolina (8.2 percent), New Jersey (8.2 percent), and Kentucky (8.0 percent). BEA statistics—including GDP, personal income, the balance of payments, foreign direct investment, the input-output accounts, and economic data for states, local areas, and industries—are available on the BEA Web site: www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release in this series will present data for 2017 and will be available November 15, 2019. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
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