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Indicators/Topics/GDP/Investment/United States

United States

Investment expenditure

Gross capital formation and investment spending.

IndicatorsGDPInvestment expenditure - United States
World BankBEAFRED
Frequencyquarterly · +1Transformlevel

Source: FRED · Q02170USQ242NNBR

Stored official data

Investment expenditure - United States in United States was 28 on October 1, 1967, unchanged from the prior observation. Charted from quarterly observations in bil. of current $.

Latest28.00
QoQ0.00%
YoY+27.27%
10Y AvgN/A
Latest observationOctober 1, 1967
Model surprise+4.05

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Investment expenditure - United States time series chart. Showing observations from 1939 01-01 to 1967 10-01. Latest value 28.

Min0.40
Mean15.51
Max30.40
Latest observationOctober 1, 1967

Source evidence

Tier 1 - criticalU.S. macro backbone via St. Louis Fed; revision/vintage capable.Action: deepen nowExpected coverage: 800,000 series.
Source noteProvider health
SourceFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
FRED
Native keyProvider-native identifier used to reconcile this country/provider series.
Q02170USQ242NNBR
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 16, 2026.Latest observation flag: Preliminary.
Stored · 1967-10-01
HistoryPoint-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.Vintage history is derived from FRED ALFRED's realtime_start/realtime_end query parameters.
Source-native vintage
ReuseCommercial use: dataset specific.Redistribution: review required.Do not treat FRED as an automatically reusable commercial-display source. Prefer direct BEA, BLS, Census, FRB, Treasury, and EIA feeds where possible.Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Q02170USQ242NNBR). Accessed 2026-05-16. Underlying-source rights may differ.
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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. 116 observations available; latest observation 1967-10-01; platform fetch 2026-05-16T12:55:51.502Z; 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.
3/6 strong
CitationInvestment expenditure - United States (FRED (St. Louis Fed): Q02170USQ242NNBR, United States, retrieved May 16, 2026)
Retrieved May 16, 2026

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Series details

SourceFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
CategoryGDP
FrequencyQuarterly
UnitBil. of Current $
Latest observationOctober 1, 1967
Platform last fetchMay 16, 2026
Transformslevel, annualized, yoy, index 100
About this series

Gross Private Domestic Investment in New Construction, Residential Nonfarm for United States

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 October 1967, Investment expenditure for United States stood at 28. That is unchanged from the prior quarter. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 25.6, ranging from a low of 17.2 in January 1967 to a high of 30.4 in July 1964. The current reading sits 3.89 above its trailing ten-year mean of 24.1.

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