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 stood at 27.19 billion US dollars in September 2025, versus 26.89 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 1.12 percent.
Sample. This monthly time series has 405 records overall. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 1992 to September 2025.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: inventories reached a minimum of 13.63 USD billion in December 2001; they reached their highest level of 27.19 in September 2025; they had a mean of 19.71.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollars (USD) million |
|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 26883.0 |
| 2025-08-31 | 26894.0 |
| 2025-09-30 | 27186.0 |
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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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