Mississippi

Mississippi Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2025, Mississippi exported $14.2 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Mississippi supported an estimated 46 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Mississippi and Jobs

• Mississippi was the 32nd largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Mississippi goods exports were $14.2 billion, an increase of 31 percent ($3.4 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Mississippi goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 46 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 2025, Mississippi exported $13.4 billion of manufactured products.
• Mississippi’s exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 39 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category was petroleum & coal products, which accounted for $4.2 billion of Mississippi's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports were computer & electronic products ($2.7 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($1.4 billion), chemicals ($990 million), and machinery, except electrical ($911 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Mississippi Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 1,932 companies exported from Mississippi locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 1,454 (75 percent) were small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 16.0 percent of Mississippi's total exports of goods in 2023.

Mississippi's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest export market was Mexico. Mississippi exported $1.9 billion in goods to Mexico in 2025, representing 14 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Mexico was followed by Panama ($1.8 billion), Canada ($1.8 billion), the Netherlands ($792 million), and Honduras ($715 million).
• Mississippi goods exports to major world areas included:

• 58 percent of Mississippi goods exports ($8.2 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Mississippi's Top Agricultural Exports

• Mississippi was the country’s 23rd largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $2.4 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	$719 million	11
cotton	$413 million	4
broiler meat	$312 million	6
soybean meal	$188 million	11
other livestock products	$130 million	9

International Investment Creates Jobs in Mississippi

• In 2023 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 53 thousand workers in Mississippi. Major sources of foreign investment in Mississippi included Japan, Canada, and France.

Mississippi’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Mississippi recorded goods exports: Memphis ($17.4 billion), Gulfport-Biloxi ($4.8 billion), Jackson ($1.1 billion), and Hattiesburg ($455.1 million).