Defense Capital Goods New Orders (advance estimate; not seasonally adjusted; USD million) - United States - Census - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Advance manufacturing survey (U.S. Census)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. On a sesonally unadjusted basis, in the United States, new orders of defense capital goods were 14.72 USD billion in August 2025, versus 11.60 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 26.90 percent.
Sample. The monthly time series shown in the graph has 403 data points. The time span covered by the series goes from February 1992 to August 2025.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: new orders achieved a maximum of 25.48 billion US dollars in June 2000; they registered a minimum of 2.47 in July 1996; they were equal on average to 9.08.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollars (USD) million |
|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 18935.0 |
| 2025-07-31 | 11600.0 |
| 2025-08-31 | 14723.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Defense Capital Goods New Orders |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Nominal aggregate |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | None |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | US dollars (USD) million |
| Source | U.S. Census Bureau |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Open Data |
| Measure type | Level |