Nevada

Nevada Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2024, Nevada exported $10.4 billion of goods to the world. In 2022, exports from Nevada supported an estimated 27 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Nevada and Jobs

• Nevada was the 34th largest state exporter of goods in 2024.
• In 2024, Nevada goods exports were $10.4 billion, an increase of 35 percent ($2.7 billion) from its export level in 2014.
• Goods exports accounted for 4.2 percent of Nevada GDP in 2024.
• Nevada goods exports in 2022 supported an estimated 27 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 Nevada and Jobs

• In 2024, Nevada exported $9.2 billion of manufactured products.
• Nevada exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 24 thousand jobs in 2022 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is primary metal manufacturing, which accounted for $2.6 billion of Nevada's total goods exports in 2024.
• Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($2.5 billion), miscellaneous manufactured commodities ($1.2 billion), electrical equipment, appliances & components ($698 million), and chemicals ($522 million).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Nevada Businesses many of which are SMEs

• A total of 3,697 companies exported from Nevada locations in 2023 (latest data available). Of those, 3,156 (85 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 28.7 percent of Nevada's total exports of goods in 2023.

Nevada Depends on World Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Nevada exported $1.8 billion in goods to Canada in 2024, representing 17 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by India ($1.3 billion), Switzerland ($1.3 billion), Mexico ($897 million), and China ($890 million).
• Nevada’s exports to major world areas included:

• 35 percent of Nevada’s goods exports ($3.6 billion) in 2024 went to current FTA partners.  

Agriculture in Nevada depends on Exports

• Nevada is the country’s 46th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $189 million in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2023 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).
• Top Agricultural exports were:

	2023 Value	2023 State Rank
other plant products	$69 million	44
beef and veal	$46 million	33
dairy products	$28 million	31
feeds and other feed grains	$22 million	38
other livestock products	$10 million	45

International Investment Creates Jobs in Nevada

• In 2022 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 63,800 Nevada workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Nevada included Canada, the United Kingdom and France.
• Foreign investment in Nevada was responsible for 4.8 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2022.

Nevada’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

In 2023 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Nevada recorded goods exports: Carson City ($189 million), Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas ($2.8 billion), and Reno ($3.4 billion).