Oklahoma

Oklahoma Exports and Foreign Investment

• In 2025, Oklahoma exported $7.5 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Oklahoma supported an estimated 22 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Oklahoma and Jobs

• Oklahoma was the 37th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Oklahoma goods exports were $7.5 billion, an increase of 43 percent ($2.2 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 2.7 percent of Oklahoma GDP in 2025.
• Oklahoma goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 22 thousand jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from Oklahoma and Jobs

• In 2025, Oklahoma exported $7.2 billion of manufactured products.
• Oklahoma exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 20 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $2.2 billion of Oklahoma's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are machinery, except electrical ($1.0 billion), chemicals ($1.0 billion), computer & electronic products ($626 million), and other fabricated metal products ($504 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Oklahoma Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 2,906 companies exported from Oklahoma locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 2,440 (84 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 23.5 percent of Oklahoma's total exports of goods in 2024.

Oklahoma's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Oklahoma exported $1.7 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 22 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Japan ($701 million), Mexico ($561 million), Germany ($485 million), and Netherlands ($422 million).
• Oklahoma goods exports to major world areas included:

• 43 percent of Oklahoma goods exports ($3.3 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Oklahoma's Top Agricultural Exports

• Oklahoma is the country’s 25th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $2.0 billion in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2024 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).^[1]
• Top agricultural exports were:

Product	2024 Value	2024 State Rank
beef and veal	$489 million	6
pork	$434 million	6
wheat	$316 million	5
other plant products	$156 million	33
broiler meat	$101 million	14

International Investment Creates Jobs in Oklahoma

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 59,900 Oklahoma workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Oklahoma included the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
• Foreign investment in Oklahoma was responsible for 3.9 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Oklahoma’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Oklahoma recorded goods exports: Tulsa ($3.8 billion), Oklahoma City ($2.8 billion), Fort Smith ($485.7 million), Lawton ($50.9 million), and Enid ($24.4 million).