United States

Investment expenditure

Name: Investment expenditure data for United States
Creator: FRED
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Gross capital formation and investment spending.

World Bank BEA FRED

Frequencyquarterly · +1Transformlevel

Source: FRED · FPIC1

Stored official data

Fixed Investment in United States was 4.5K on January 1, 2026, higher by 69.3 (+1.6%) from the prior observation. Charted from quarterly observations in bil. of chn. 2017 $.

Latest$4.47K

QoQ+1.57%

YoY+3.26%

10Y Avg$3.85K

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026

Model surprise-39.23

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Min$2.17K

Mean$3.3K

Max$4.47K

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026

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Tier 1 - critical

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FRED

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FPIC1

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Stored · 2026-01-01

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82 · Acceptable

ComparabilityAggregator is not the statistical authority: Use the source agency, source code, and methodology link when citing or reconciling with official releases.Real, nominal, and chain measures are not interchangeable: Use real growth for cycle analysis, nominal levels for revenue/size questions, and PPP or per-capita variants for welfare comparisons.

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QualitySource authority: 82/100. Aggregator source: useful access layer, but official methodology remains with the originating agency.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 77 observations available; latest observation 2026-01-01; platform fetch 2026-06-19T09:45:42.533Z; release status none; data status liveRevision and vintage depth: 100/100. Point-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.

4/6 strong

CitationFixed Investment (FRED (St. Louis Fed): FPIC1, United States, retrieved Jun 19, 2026)

Retrieved Jun 19, 2026

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Series details

SourceFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)

CategoryGrowth

FrequencyQuarterly

UnitBil. of Chn. 2017 $

Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026

Platform last fetchJune 19, 2026

Transformslevel, yoy, annualized

About this series

Real Private Fixed Investment

The reading right now

As of January 2026, Investment expenditure for United States stood at 4.5K. That is up 69.3 from the prior quarter. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 4.2K, ranging from a low of 3.9K in January 2021 to a high of 4.5K in January 2026. The current reading sits 606.8 above its trailing ten-year mean of 3.9K.

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