Defense Capital Goods Value of Shipments (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, shipments of defense capital goods stood at 19.77 USD billion in March 2026, compared to 17.09 in February. This constitutes a gain of 15.68 percent.
Sample. In the monthly series plotted above, there are a total of 411 observations. The series covers the span of time extending from January 1992 to March 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: shipments hit a trough of 4.57 USD billion in January 2000; they peaked at 19.77 in March 2026; they were equal on average to 9.09.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollars (USD) million |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | 14593.0 |
| 2026-02-28 | 17092.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 19773.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Defense Capital Goods Value of Shipments |
| 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 |
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