Table 4-22: Selected operating data for majority-owned U.S. affiliates of foreign companies: 2000

Table 4-22

Selected operating data for majority-owned U.S. affiliates of foreign companies: 2000

Investing country	Gross product (billions of current U.S. dollars)	Sales (billions of current U.S. dollars)	Employment (millions of employees)	R&D spending (billions of current U.S. dollars)	Investing country share of R&D spending (percent)	R&D/gross product ratio (percent)

All countries	449.4	2053.0	5.56	26.1	100.0	5.8
Top seven countries	368.2	1492.8	4.46	23.4	89.8	6.4
Germany	54.0	308.2	0.69	5.6	21.5	10.4
United Kingdom	100.1	331.2	1.10	5.0	19.2	5.0
Switzerland	34.0	120.0	0.46	3.0	11.5	8.9
Japan	62.2	429.7	0.70	2.6	10.0	4.2
Canada	36.3	159.3	0.56	3.7	14.0	10.1
France	38.9	144.4	0.40	2.1	8.2	5.5
Netherlands	42.6	D	0.55	1.4	5.2	3.2

D data withheld to avoid disclosing operations of individual companies

NOTE: Majority-owned U.S. affiliates of foreign companies are affiliates in the United States owned more than 50 percent by foreign direct investors.

SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, annual series, http://www.bea.gov/bea/di/di1fdiop.htm.

Science & Engineering Indicators – 2004

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