Mississippi

Mississippi Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2024, Mississippi exported $13.7 billion of goods to the world.  In 2022, exports from Mississippi supported an estimated 56 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Mississippi and Jobs

• Mississippi was the 31st largest state exporter of goods in 2024.
• In 2024, Mississippi goods exports were $13.7 billion, an increase of 19 percent ($2.2 billion) from its export level in 2014.
• Goods exports accounted for 9.8 percent of Mississippi GDP in 2023 (latest data available).
• Mississippi goods exports in 2022 supported an estimated 56 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 Mississippi and Jobs

• In 2024, Mississippi exported $13.0 billion of manufactured products.
• Mississippi exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 47 thousand jobs in 2022 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is petroleum & coal products, which accounted for $4.4 billion of Mississippi's total goods exports in 2024.
• Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($1.6 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($1.3 billion), chemicals ($1.1 billion), and transportation equipment ($996 million).

Exports Sustain Mississippi Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 1,949 companies exported from Mississippi locations in 2022 (latest data available). Of those, 1,458 (75 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 9.4 percent of Mississippi's total exports of goods in 2022.

Mississippi Depends on World Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Mississippi exported $2.1 billion in goods to Canada in 2024, representing 15 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Panama ($1.7 billion), Mexico ($1.6 billion), Honduras ($812 million), and Belgium ($699 million).
• Mississippi’s exports to major world areas included:

• 59 percent of Mississippi’s goods exports ($8.1 billion) in 2024 went to current FTA partners.  

Agriculture in Mississippi depends on Exports

Mississippi is the country’s 22nd largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $2.7 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
soybeans	$867 million	14
cotton	$485 million	4
broiler meat	$310 million	6
other livestock products	$199 million	5
soybean meal	$154 million	14

International Investment Creates Jobs in Mississippi

• In 2022 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 49,800 Mississippi workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Mississippi included Japan, Canada and Germany.
• Foreign investment in Mississippi was responsible for 5.2 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2022.

Mississippi’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting
In 2023 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Mississippi recorded goods exports: Memphis ($17.9 billion) and Jackson ($1.3 billion).