Georgia

Georgia Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Georgia exported a record $60.3 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Georgia supported an estimated 165 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Georgia and Jobs

• Georgia was the 9th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Georgia goods exports were $60.3 billion, an increase of 56 percent ($22 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Georgia goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 165 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 Georgia and Jobs

• In 2025, Georgia exported $54.9 billion of manufactured products.
• Georgia exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 153 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $18.4 billion of Georgia total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($9.3 billion), machinery, except electrical ($6.1 billion), chemicals ($4.3 billion), and paper ($3.4 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Georgia Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 14,416 companies exported from Georgia locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 12,604 (87 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 29.0 percent of Georgia total exports of goods in 2023.

Georgia's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Canada. Georgia exported $6.8 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 11 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($6.3 billion), Singapore ($3.6 billion), Germany ($3.5 billion), and the Netherlands ($3.2 billion).
• Georgia goods exports to major world areas included:

• 37 percent of Georgia goods exports ($22.1 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners. 

Georgia's Top Agricultural Exports

• Georgia is the country’s 19th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $3.6 billion in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2024 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).1
• Top agricultural exports were:

	2024 Value	2024 State Rank
cotton	$913 million	2
broiler meat	$569 million	1
other oilseeds and products	$532 million	2
other plant products	$418 million	16
tree nuts	$172 million	3

International Investment Creates Jobs in Georgia

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed an estimated 300 thousand Georgia workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Georgia included Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Georgia’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Georgia recorded goods exports: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell ($33.4 billion), Savannah ($8.4 billion), Chattanooga ($1.8 billion), Augusta-Richmond County ($998.4 million), Gainesville ($980.2 million), Columbus ($873.5 million), Brunswick-St. Simons ($636.4 million), Athens-Clarke County ($430.4 million), Dalton ($370.1 million), Valdosta ($314.9 million), Macon-Bibb County ($274.6 million), Hinesville ($265.9 million), Albany ($250.7 million), Warner Robins ($223.6 million), and Rome ($118.8 million).