Defense Capital Goods Total Inventories (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, inventories of defense capital goods were 28.41 USD billion in September 2026, compared to 28.65 in August. This constitutes a decrease of 0.86 percent.
Sample. This monthly time series has 417 data points. The series covers the time period going from January 1992 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: inventories had an average value of 19.95 billion US dollars; they reached a maximum of 28.65 billion US dollars in August 2026; they reached their lowest level of 13.63 billion US dollars in December 2001.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollars (USD) million |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | 28,439.0 |
| 2026-08-31 | 28,653.0 |
| 2026-09-30 | 28,406.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Defense Capital Goods Total Inventories |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| 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 |
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