Manufacturing in the United States

Manufacturing is a vital economic sector in the United States of America. The United States is the world's second-largest manufacturer after the People's Republic of China with a record high real output in 2024 of $2.913 trillion.

As of December 2024, the U.S. manufacturing industry employed 12.76 million people. Though still a large part of the US economy, in Q1 2025 manufacturing contributed less to GDP than the 'Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing' sector, the 'Government' sector, or 'Professional and business services' sector.

Manufacturing output recovered from the Great Recession, reaching an all-time high in 2024, but manufacturing employment has been declining since the 1990s, giving rise to what is known as a "jobless recovery," which made job creation or preservation in the manufacturing sector an important topic in the 2016 United States presidential election.

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