Defense Capital Goods Value of Shipments (advance estimate; 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. In the United States, shipments of defense capital goods were 16.97 USD billion (seasonally adjusted) in January 2026, versus 16.82 in December 2025. This constitutes a gain of 0.89 percent.
Sample. There are 409 records overall in the monthly time series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 1992 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: shipments were equal on average to 9.04 billion US dollars; they recorded their maximum of 16.97 in January 2026; they recorded a minimum of 5.38 in August 2000.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollars (USD) million |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 16382.0 |
| 2025-12-31 | 16819.0 |
| 2026-01-31 | 16972.0 |
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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 | Yes |
| 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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