Graph and download economic data for Net domestic investment: Private: Domestic business (W790RC1Q027SBEA) from Q1 1960 to Q1 2025 about investment, domestic, business, Net, private, GDP, and USA.

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Nine in ten small business owners in the United States anticipated topping up their marketing and sales investments, according to a survey conducted in February 2022. Besides that primary goal, small firms also planned to increase their efforts in social and search engine marketing, with ** percent of respondents, while another ** percent intended to invest in their online presence, e-commerce sales channel, and website.

The statistic shows the business investment in software* in the U.S. from 2000 to 2009. In 2005, the business investment in software was at 218 billion U.S. dollars. The data excludes software embedded or bundled in computers or other equipment.

Graph and download economic data for Nowcast for Real Gross Private Domestic Investment: Fixed Investment: Business (BUSFIXINVESTNOW) from Q3 2011 to Q2 2025 about nowcast, projection, fixed, investment, gross, domestic, business, private, real, rate, and USA.

Key information about United States Investment: % of GDP

• United States Investment accounted for 20.7 % of its Nominal GDP in Mar 2023, compared with a ratio of 21.3 % in the previous quarter.
• US investment share of Nominal GDP data is updated quarterly, available from Mar 1947 to Mar 2023, with an average ratio of 22.3 %.
• The data reached an all-time high of 25.4 % in Dec 1978 and a record low of 16.1 % in Jun 1947.

• In the latest reports, US GDP expanded 1.8 % YoY in Mar 2023.
• US Nominal GDP reached 6,632.4 USD bn in Mar 2023.
• Its GDP deflator (implicit price deflator) increased 5.3 % in Mar 2023.
• US GDP Per Capita reached 59,484.0 USD in Dec 2017.
• Its Gross Savings Rate was measured at 16.0 % in Mar 2023.

United States US: BERD Financed: Business Sector data was reported at 87.582 % in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 87.277 % for 2021. United States US: BERD Financed: Business Sector data is updated yearly, averaging 84.710 % from Dec 1981 (Median) to 2022, with 42 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 91.635 % in 2001 and a record low of 68.104 % in 1987. United States US: BERD Financed: Business Sector data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.MSTI: Business Enterprise Investment on Research and Development: OECD Member: Annual.

For the United States, from 2021 onwards, changes to the US BERD survey questionnaire allowed for more exhaustive identification of acquisition costs for ‘identifiable intangible assets’ used for R&D. This has resulted in a substantial increase in reported R&D capital expenditure within BERD. In the business sector, the funds from the rest of the world previously included in the business-financed BERD, are available separately from 2008. From 2006 onwards, GOVERD includes state government intramural performance (most of which being financed by the federal government and state government own funds). From 2016 onwards, PNPERD data are based on a new R&D performer survey. In the higher education sector all fields of SSH are included from 2003 onwards.

Following a survey of federally-funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) in 2005, it was concluded that FFRDC R&D belongs in the government sector - rather than the sector of the FFRDC administrator, as had been reported in the past. R&D expenditures by FFRDCs were reclassified from the other three R&D performing sectors to the Government sector; previously published data were revised accordingly. Between 2003 and 2004, the method used to classify data by industry has been revised. This particularly affects the ISIC category “wholesale trade” and consequently the BERD for total services.

U.S. R&D data are generally comparable, but there are some areas of underestimation:

1. i) Up to 2008, Government sector R&D performance covers only federal government activities. That by State and local government establishments is excluded;
2. ii) Except for the Government and the Business Enterprise sectors, the R&D data exclude most capital expenditures. For the Business Enterprise sector, depreciation is reported in place of gross capital expenditures up to 2014. Higher education (and national total) data were revised back to 1998 due to an improved methodology that corrects for double-counting of R&D funds passed between institutions.

Breakdown by type of R&D (basic research, applied research, etc.) was also revised back to 1998 in the business enterprise and higher education sectors due to improved estimation procedures.

The methodology for estimating researchers was changed as of 1985. In the Government, Higher Education and PNP sectors the data since then refer to employed doctoral scientists and engineers who report their primary work activity as research, development or the management of R&D, plus, for the Higher Education sector, the number of full-time equivalent graduate students with research assistantships averaging an estimated 50 % of their time engaged in R&D activities. As of 1985 researchers in the Government sector exclude military personnel. As of 1987, Higher education R&D personnel also include those who report their primary work activity as design.

Due to lack of official data for the different employment sectors, the total researchers figure is an OECD estimate up to 2019. Comprehensive reporting of R&D personnel statistics by the United States has resumed with records available since 2020, reflecting the addition of official figures for the number of researchers and total R&D personnel for the higher education sector and the Private non-profit sector; as well as the number of researchers for the government sector. The new data revise downwards previous OECD estimates as the OECD extrapolation methods drawing on historical US data, required to produce a consistent OECD aggregate, appear to have previously overestimated the growth in the number of researchers in the higher education sector.

Pre-production development is excluded from Defence GBARD (in accordance with the Frascati Manual) as of 2000. 2009 GBARD data also includes the one time incremental R&D funding legislated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Beginning with the 2000 GBARD data, budgets for capital expenditure – “R&D plant” in national terminology - are included. GBARD data for earlier years relate to budgets for current costs only.

Graph and download economic data for Net domestic investment: Private: Domestic business (W790RC1A027NBEA) from 1960 to 2024 about investment, domestic, business, Net, private, GDP, and USA.

This statistic shows the direct investment position of the United States in China from 2000 to 2023, on a historical-cost basis. In 2023, the U.S. investments made in China were valued at 126.91 billion U.S. dollars. Direct investment position of the United States - additional information Foreign direct investment (FDI), simply put, is an investment of one company into another company located in a different country. It differs from a traditional way of investing into shares of foreign companies listed on a stock exchange. The companies which make foreign direct investment usually own a part of the company in which they invest and they have influence on the decision making process. In the United States, FDI is defined as an American investor (called the U.S. parent) owning a minimum of 10 percent of a foreign firm (known as a foreign affiliate). The total direct position of the United States abroad amounted to 6.68 trillion U.S. dollars in 2023. Although the phenomenon profits greatly from the technological advances of the 21st century, as well as from the cultural flexibility of today’s workforce, FDI has a long history, going back to the colonial empires. Not without critics, FDI is generally believed to bring advantages to the investing company, such as access to new markets and decreased costs of labor, materials and production facilities. The local economy can benefit from an infusion of capital, access to new technologies and engagement of native labor pool. There are three recognized types of foreign direct investment, namely horizontal FDI, platform FDI and vertical FDI, along with various methods of implementing the investment itself. FDI considered by many one of the motors of worldwide economic growth. U.S. foreign investment abroad has seen a dramatic growth in the past decades. Multinational American corporations, especially focused on manufacturing, have largely invested in facilities overseas, due to financial benefits. However, a large share of these corporations focuses toward not only supplying the U.S. market, but also the local markets in which they operate. In 2020, the country that received the largest amount of U.S. foreign investment was the United Kingdom, with a little over one trillion U.S. dollars, followed by the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Overall, the total amount of U.S. dollars invested in European states in 2021 reached 3.98 trillion U.S. dollars compared to 2.25 trillion U.S. dollars a decade prior.

Graph and download economic data for Nonfinancial Noncorporate Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Real Estate (Market Value); Liability, Market Value Levels (BOGZ1LM115114005A) from 1945 to 2020 about noncorporate, owned, foreign, real estate, nonfinancial, liabilities, business, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nonfinancial Noncorporate Business; Gross Fixed Investment, Nonresidential Equipment, Transactions (BOGZ1FU115013025Q) from Q4 1946 to Q1 2025 about noncorporate, nonresidential, transactions, fixed, nonfinancial, investment, gross, equipment, business, and USA.

United States - Nonfinancial Noncorporate Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Real Estate Business (Market Value); Liability, Transactions was -119.00000 Mil. of $ in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Nonfinancial Noncorporate Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Real Estate Business (Market Value); Liability, Transactions reached a record high of 59168.00000 in July of 2018 and a record low of -21376.00000 in October of 2018. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Nonfinancial Noncorporate Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Real Estate Business (Market Value); Liability, Transactions - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Private Nonresidential Fixed Investment (PNFI) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about nonresidential, fixed, investment, private, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nonfinancial Noncorporate Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Real Estate Business (Market Value); Liability, Transactions (BOGZ1FU115114005A) from 1946 to 2024 about noncorporate, owned, foreign, transactions, real estate, nonfinancial, liabilities, business, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Other Financial Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S.; Liability, Level (BOGZ1FL503192003A) from 1945 to 2024 about liabilities, investment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nonfinancial Corporate Business; Net Investment, Transactions (DISCONTINUED) (BOGZ1FU105060005Q) from Q4 1946 to Q3 2023 about transactions, nonfinancial, investment, business, Net, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nonfinancial Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S.; Liability, Market Value Levels (BOGZ1LM143192005Q) from Q4 1945 to Q4 2020 about FDI, market value, nonfinancial, liabilities, business, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Other Financial Business; Foreign Direct Investment in U.S.; Liability, Transactions (BOGZ1FU503192003Q) from Q4 1946 to Q1 2025 about transactions, liabilities, investment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nowcast for Real Gross Private Domestic Investment: Fixed Investment: Business: Equipment (EQUIPNOW) from Q3 2011 to Q2 2025 about nowcast, projection, fixed, investment, gross, equipment, domestic, business, private, real, rate, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Nowcast for Real Gross Private Domestic Investment: Fixed Investment: Business: Intellectual Property Products (IPPNOW) from Q3 2013 to Q2 2025 about nowcast, intellectual property, projection, fixed, investment, gross, domestic, business, production, private, real, rate, and USA.