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Thursday, July 1, 2021 Contact: Jeannine Aversa, (301) 278-9003 New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2020 Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $120.7 billion in 2020, down 45.4 percent from $221.2 billion in 2019. New Foreign Direct Investment Expenditures by Type, 1998-2020 Billions $ 500 450 400 350 300 250 Expansions* 200 Establishments 150 Acquisitions 100 50 0 *Expansions included 2014 to present NOTE–Survey not conducted 2009–2013. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Additional highlights of the statistics on new foreign direct investment for 2020: • • • Expenditures for acquisitions were $116.3 billion, expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses were $1.9 billion, and expenditures to expand existing foreign-owned businesses were $2.4 billion. Total planned greenfield investment expenditures—expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses and to expand existing foreign-owned U.S. businesses—for investments initiated in 2020, which include both first-year spending and planned spending in other years, totaled $19.5 billion. Employment at newly acquired, established, or expanded foreign-owned businesses in the United States was 197,500 in 2020. 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 website: www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release in this series will present data for 2021 and will be available July 2022. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
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