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Indicators/Topics/GDP/Investment/United States

United States

Investment expenditure

Gross capital formation and investment spending.

IndicatorsBEA NIPAInvestment expenditure - United States
World BankBEAFRED
Frequencyquarterly · +1Transformlevel

Source: BEA · NIPA:T10105:7

Stored official data

Investment expenditure - United States in United States was 5.6M on January 1, 2026, higher by 145.9K (+2.7%) from the prior observation. Charted from quarterly observations in currency or percent of gdp.

Latest5646556.00%
QoQ+2.65%
YoY+1.63%
10Y Avg4384549.95%
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026
Model surprise-64023.36%

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Investment expenditure - United States time series chart. Showing observations from 1947 01-01 to 2026 01-01. Latest value 5.6M.

Min34505.00%
Mean1380206.99%
Max5646556.00%
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026

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.
NIPA:T10105:7
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 18, 2026.Latest observation flag: Preliminary.
Stored · 2026-01-01
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.
Provider revision tag
ReuseCommercial use: yes.Redistribution: allowed.Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (NIPA:T10105:7). Accessed 2026-05-18.
Public domain

Research notes

86 · Strong
ComparabilityReal, 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.Seasonal-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. 317 observations available; latest observation 2026-01-01; platform fetch 2026-05-18T02:55:09.172Z; 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
CitationInvestment expenditure - United States (BEA: NIPA:T10105:7, United States, retrieved May 18, 2026)
Retrieved May 18, 2026

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Series details

SourceU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
CategoryBEA NIPA
FrequencyQuarterly
Unitcurrency or percent of GDP
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026
Platform last fetchMay 18, 2026
Transformslevel, annualized, yoy, index 100
About this series

Gross capital formation and investment spending.

Related measures

Adjacent and similar concepts available for United States.

NominalRealYoY growthQoQ growthGDP per capitaReal per capitaDeflatorAgriculture
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The reading right now

As of January 2026, Investment expenditure for United States stood at 5.6M. That is up 145.9K from the prior quarter. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 5M, ranging from a low of 4M in April 2021 to a high of 5.6M in January 2026. The current reading sits 1.3M above its trailing ten-year mean of 4.4M.

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