The United States manufacturing sector output increased 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2025. The data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates. Manufacturing sector output is a chain-type, current-weighted index constructed after excluding from the gross domestic product (GDP) the following outputs: general government, nonprofit institutions, and private households (including owner-occupied housing). Corresponding exclusions are also made in labor inputs.

In April 2025, the Industrial Production Index (IPI) came to a value of ***** in the United States. This reflects no significant change from the previous month.The IPI was created by the Federal Reserve to measure the performance of industrial production - manufacturing, mining, electric and gas industries - in the United States relative to a base year. A value of over *** shows positive production performance, while a value below *** indicates an industrial production performance below the standards of the base year.

This statistic represents the gross output of the manufacturing industry in the United States between 2012 and 2021. In 2021, this sector produced gross output of over *** trillion U.S. dollars.

This graph shows the average annual growth rate in the manufacturing sector output in the United States from 1960 to 2013. Manufacturing sector output increased at 4 percent annual rate from 2010 through 2013.

In the United States, the manufacturing sector productivity increased by 2.1 percent during the second quarter of 2025. The data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates. Productivity describes the relationship between real output and the labor time involved in its production. They show the changes from period to period in the amount of goods and services produced per hour.

From the 1920s until the Second World War, industrial output in the major economies of the Americas fluctuated greatly. Using manufacturing output in 1938 as a benchmark, the U.S. had fairly consistent output throughout the 1920s, before there was a significant drop after the Wall Street Crash in 1929 - by 1932, output fell to around two thirds of its 1929 level, and it would take another five years to recover thereafter. After the Recession of 1937-38, manufacturing output then doubled by the early-1940s, as the U.S. ramped up armament before it joined the Second World War. Output in 1943 was almost three times higher than it had been in 1938.

Canada's industrial output followed a similar trend to that of the U.S., whereas Mexico saw comparatively little change across the given period. Similar to Mexico, Brazil's manufacturing output was not drastically affected by the Great Depression, although Brazil saw the largest relative growth over the given period, with output in 1944 over five times higher than it had been in the mid-1920s - it should be noted, however, that both Latin American countries' manufacturing industries were at a much lower stage of development than the North American industries during this time.

In April 2025, global industrial production, excluding the United States, increased by************* compared to the same time in the previous year, based on three month moving averages. This is compared to an increase of 1*** percent in advanced economies (excluding the United States) for the same time period.

In 2022, U.S. motor vehicles and parts manufacturing generated a gross output of roughly *** billion U.S. dollars. Growth in the global automotive industry slowed down between 2018 and 2020; sales of new light vehicles decreased and motor vehicle production output did not fully recover from the pandemic, reaching ** million in 2021. That year, U.S. domestic auto production dipped to its lowest point since 2010, before increasing slightly in 2022. Manufacturing output Gross output is measured as the value of sales generated by an industry. Motor vehicles and parts manufacturing gross output represented over ** percent of the U.S. manufacturing sector's gross output in 2021. On the whole, U.S manufacturing output fell *** percent in March 2020. The future of the U.S. manufacturing industry will depend on economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the automotive semiconductor shortage, and the raw material price inflation.

This statistic represents the industrial production index for the manufacturing of electrical equipment in the U.S. between 2016 to 2019. In 2019, the manufacturing of electrical equipment, appliances, and components had an industrial production index of ***** compared to the 2012 baseline.

In April 2025, the Industrial Capacity Index (ICI) of the United States came to *****. The industrial capacity index was created by the Federal Reserve to estimate the sustainable potential output of industrial production in the United States. It covers the manufacturing, mining, and utilities industries. The capacity index is shown as a percentage of the real production output of the base year, 2017.

Manufacturing sector unit labor costs in the United States increased by 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2025. The data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates. Unit labor costs describe the relationship between compensation per hour and productivity, or real output per hour, and can be used as an indicator of inflationary pressure on producers. Increases in hourly compensation increase unit labor costs; labor productivity increases offset compensation increases and lower unit labor costs.

In 2024, the value added by the manufacturing industry to the gross domestic product of the United States was *** trillion U.S. dollars. This is a slight increase from the previous year, when **** trillion U.S. dollars were added to the GDP by the manufacturing industry.

The valued added by the manufacturing sector to GDP varies significantly across different countries worldwide. In 2023, the manufacturing sector in China added nearly *** trillion U.S. dollars to the country's GDP, while this value in the United States amounted to *** trillion U.S. dollars in the same year.

The statistic shows the most important U.S. states in terms of manufacturing employment in 2016, based on the number of production workers. Texas was ranked second with around ******* production workers that year.

Throughout the Great Depression, the Soviet Union's isolation and removal from the capitalist system meant that its industrial production grew by more than 300 percent between 1929 and 1938, compared to the relatively low figures across the rest of Europe and the U.S. The Soviet Union was the only country of those listed whose industrial output did not fall in the years immediately following the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The U.S. and Germany, conversely, saw industrial production fall by 45 and 41 percent, respectively, although they had the fourth and second highest growth rates of the period between 1932 and 1938.

In 2024, the finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry contributed the highest amount of value to the GDP of the U.S. at 21.2 percent. The construction industry contributed around four percent of GDP in the same year.

Industrial production grew significantly in the 1960s, with Japan's output alone growing by an average of 13.6 percent each year. Growth in the U.S. and Western Europe grew at a relatively slower rate of 4.9 percent each year, however figures were much closer between Japan and the West in the 1970s and 1980s. The recession of 1973-1975 saw industrial output drop significantly across most of the countries shown, and growth rates among the major powers dropped again in the subsequent decade. There were, however, several southern European countries maintained growth rates of over five percent in the 1970s, while Ireland recorded its highest growth in the 1980s; the reason for these discrepancies is due to the fact that industrialization in Ireland and the Mediterranean countries began at a much later stage than the likes of France or Germany.

The number of manufacturing enterprises in the United States was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 6.7 thousand enterprises (-2.21 percent). After the fourteenth consecutive decreasing year, the number is estimated to reach 297.07 thousand enterprises and therefore a new minimum in 2029. According to the OECD an enterprise is defined as the smallest combination of legal units, which is an organisational unit producing services or goods, that benefits from a degree of autonomy with regards to the allocation of resources and decision making. Depicted here are enterprises in the industrial sector of manufacturing, as defined in the ISIC classification framework.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

The statistic represents U.S. metal cutting and forming machine tool manufacturing gross output between 2008 and 2020. In 2020, this sector generated a gross output of approximately 7.7 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2023, the primary metal manufacturing sector in the United States reported a gross output of around ***** billion U.S. dollars. This represents a *** percent decrease in gross output compared to ***** billion U.S. dollars registered in 2022.