Georgia

Georgia Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2024, Georgia exported a record $53.1 billion of goods to the world. In 2022, exports from Georgia supported an estimated 168 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Georgia and Jobs

• Georgia was the 12th largest state exporter of goods in 2024.
• In 2024, Georgia goods exports were $53.1 billion, an increase of 35 percent ($14 billion) from its export level in 2014.
• Goods exports accounted for 6.2 percent of Georgia GDP in 2023 (latest data available).
• Georgia goods exports in 2022 supported an estimated 168 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 2024, Georgia exported $48.0 billion of manufactured products.
• Georgia exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 153 thousand jobs in 2022 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $14.0 billion of Georgia's total goods exports in 2024.
• Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($6.8 billion), machinery, except electrical ($6.2 billion), chemicals ($4.2 billion), and paper ($3.6 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Georgia Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 14,693 companies exported from Georgia locations in 2022 (latest data available). Of those, 12,834 (87 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 30.1 percent of Georgia's total exports of goods in 2022.

Georgia Depends on World Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Georgia exported $7.4 billion in goods to Canada in 2024, representing 14 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($6.4 billion), China ($3.1 billion), Netherlands ($2.6 billion), and Germany ($2.5 billion).
• Georgia’s exports to major world areas included:
   

 

• 41 percent of Georgia’s goods exports ($21.7 billion) in 2024 went to current FTA partners.  

Agriculture in Georgia depends on Exports

• Georgia is the country’s 18th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $3.9 billion in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2022 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).
• Top Agricultural exports were:

	2022 Value	2022 State Rank
cotton	$1.3 billion	2
broiler meat	$566 million	2
other oilseeds and products	$441 million	2
other plant products	$303 million	17
tree nuts	$294 million	2

International Investment Creates Jobs in Georgia

• In 2022 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 288,500 Georgia workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Georgia included Japan, Canada and Germany.
• Foreign investment in Georgia was responsible for 6.9 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2022.

Georgia’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting
In 2023 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Georgia recorded goods exports: Chattanooga ($2.4 billion), Albany ($317.7 million), Athens-Clarke County ($533.9 million), Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell ($32.3 billion), Augusta-Richmond County ($1.2 billion), Brunswick-St. Simons ($681.7 million), Columbus ($911.8 million), Dalton ($321.3 million), Gainesville ($980.9 million), Hinesville ($284.5 million), Macon-Bibb County ($321 million), Rome ($141.2 million), Savannah ($6.2 billion), Valdosta ($337.4 million), and Warner Robins ($142.2 million).