Indiana

Indiana Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Indiana exported a record $68.8 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Indiana supported an estimated 187 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Indiana and Jobs

• Indiana was the 7th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Indiana goods exports were $68.8 billion, an increase of 104 percent ($35 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Indiana goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 187 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 Indiana and Jobs

• In 2025, Indiana exported $68.1 billion of manufactured products.
• Indiana exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 169 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is chemicals, which accounted for $33.8 billion of Indiana total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are transportation equipment ($12.6 billion), machinery, except electrical ($5.3 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($3.3 billion), and computer & electronic products ($3.0 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Indiana Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 8,407 companies exported from Indiana locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 7,044 (84 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 13.4 percent of Indiana total exports of goods in 2023.

Indiana's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Italy. Indiana exported $15.3 billion in goods to Italy in 2025, representing 22 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Italy was followed by Canada ($12.7 billion), Mexico ($8.0 billion), Germany ($4.4 billion), and Japan ($4.2 billion).
• Indiana goods exports to major world areas included:

• 37 percent of Indiana goods exports ($25.3 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Indiana's Top Agricultural Exports

• Indiana is the country’s 7th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $6.1 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
soybeans	$2.1 billion	3
corn	$938 million	5
feeds and other feed grains	$658 million	5
soybean meal	$536 million	3
pork	$479 million	5

International Investment Creates Jobs in Indiana

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed an estimated 220 thousand workers in Indiana. Major sources of foreign investment in Indiana included Japan, France, and the United Kingdom.

Indiana’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Indiana recorded goods exports: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin ($56.7 billion), Cincinnati ($38.8 billion), Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood ($26.2 billion), Louisville/Jefferson County ($12.1 billion), Evansville ($4.9 billion), Lafayette-West Lafayette ($2.4 billion), Elkhart-Goshen ($2.1 billion), Bloomington ($1.9 billion), Columbus ($1.8 billion), Fort Wayne ($1.8 billion), Kokomo ($1.4 billion), South Bend-Mishawaka ($989.6 million), Michigan City-La Porte ($464.4 million), Muncie ($270.7 million), and Terre Haute ($257.4 million).