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Friday, August 20, 2021 Contact: Thomas Dail, (301) 278-9003 Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises, 2019 Majority-owned U.S. affiliates (MOUSAs) of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) employed 7.95 million workers in the United States in 2019, a 1.1 percent increase from 7.86 million in 2018, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. MOUSAs accounted for 6.0 percent of total private-industry employment in the United States in 2019. Employment by Majority-Owned U.S. Affiliates 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 2012 2013 U.S. Burea u of Economic Analysis 2014 2015 Employment (left axis) 2016 2017 2018 2019 Share of total U.S. private-industry employment (right axis) Highlights of the statistics on MOUSAs in 2019: • • • • Current-dollar value added of MOUSAs, a measure of their direct contribution to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), increased 1.7 percent to $1.1 trillion. MOUSAs accounted for 7.0 percent of total U.S. business-sector value added. Expenditures for property, plant, and equipment by MOUSAs increased 3.9 percent to $284.6 billion. MOUSAs accounted for 15.7 percent of total U.S. private business capital expenditures. Research and development (R&D) performed by MOUSAs increased 2.5 percent to $71.4 billion. MOUSAs accounted for 15.8 percent of total U.S. business R&D in 2018, the latest year for which all-U.S. business R&D data are available. By state, private-industry employment accounted for by MOUSAs was highest in South Carolina (8.9 percent), New Hampshire (8.4 percent), and Kentucky (8.2 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 at www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release in this series will present data for 2020 and will be available August 2022. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce Percent Millions of employees 8
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