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Indicators/Topics/Business/Durable goods orders/United States

United States

Durable goods orders

New orders for durable manufactured goods.

IndicatorsBEA FixedAssetsDurable goods orders - United States
BLSFREDBEA
Frequencyannual · +2Transformlevel

Source: BEA · FixedAssets:FAAt101

Stored official data

Durable goods orders - United States in United States was 16.6M on January 1, 2024, higher by 540.6K (+3.4%) from the prior observation. Charted from annual observations in currency.

Latest16.6M
YoY+3.37%
10Y Avg13.7M
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024
Model surprise-912K

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Durable goods orders - United States time series chart. Showing observations from 1925 to 2024. Latest value 16.6M.

Min27.2K
Mean3.04M
Max16.6M
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024

Source evidence

Tier 1 - criticalOfficial U.S. national accounts; release-critical.Action: deepen nowExpected coverage: 30,000 series.
Source noteProvider health
SourceU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Native keyProvider-native identifier used to reconcile this country/provider series.
FixedAssets:FAAt101
FreshnessDisplayed as stored official data.The provider-backed series is outside its expected freshness window, so this view should be refreshed before production use.Fetched: May 24, 2026.Latest observation flag: Preliminary.
Stored · 2024-01-01
HistoryBEA does not expose a true vintage API. NIPA observations carry NoteRef markers identifying advance, second, third, and final estimate rounds.BEA does not publish a vintage API; estimate-round tags are derived from NoteRef + temporal-proximity heuristics. Treat as approximate.
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ReuseCommercial use: yes.Redistribution: allowed.Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (FixedAssets:FAAt101). Accessed 2026-05-24.
Public domain

Research notes

86 · Strong
ComparabilitySeasonal-adjustment status needs attention: Prefer same-adjustment comparisons, or transform to year-over-year changes before cross-series comparison.Revision evidence is not a full historical vintage archive: Use this as current-value or captured-forward evidence unless the series is explicitly labelled source-native vintage.
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QualitySource authority: 100/100. Source kind is classified as official national.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 100 observations available; latest observation 2024-01-01; platform fetch 2026-05-24T21:38:05.139Z; release status none; data status liveRevision and vintage depth: 78/100. BEA does not expose a true vintage API. NIPA observations carry NoteRef markers identifying advance, second, third, and final estimate rounds.
3/6 strong
CitationDurable goods orders - United States (BEA: FixedAssets:FAAt101, United States, retrieved May 24, 2026)
Retrieved May 24, 2026

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Series details

SourceU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
CategoryBEA FixedAssets
FrequencyAnnual
Unitcurrency
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2024
Platform last fetchMay 24, 2026
Transformslevel, yoy, index 100
About this series

New orders for durable manufactured goods.

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The reading right now

As of January 2024, Durable goods orders for United States stood at 16.6M. That is up 540.6K from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 14.5M, ranging from a low of 12.1M in January 2019 to a high of 16.6M in January 2024. The current reading sits 3.8M above its trailing ten-year mean of 12.7M.

Computed from the observation series on this page. Numbers update when the underlying provider revises the data.