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Wyoming Exports and Foreign Investment

In 2024, Wyoming exported $2.1 billion of goods to the world. In 2022, exports from Wyoming supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Wyoming and Jobs

  • Wyoming was the 48th largest state exporter of goods in 2024.
  • In 2024, Wyoming goods exports were $2.1 billion, an increase of 18 percent ($311 million) from its export level in 2014.
  • Goods exports accounted for 4.3 percent of Wyoming GDP in 2023 (latest data available).
  • Wyoming goods exports in 2022 supported an estimated 6,000 jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from Wyoming and Jobs

  • In 2024, Wyoming exported $2.0 billion of manufactured products.
  • Wyoming exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 5,000 jobs in 2022 (latest data available).
  • The state's largest manufacturing export category is chemicals, which accounted for $1.5 billion of Wyoming's total goods exports in 2024.
  • Other top manufacturing exports are computer & electronic products ($120 million), machinery, except electrical ($112 million), petroleum & coal products ($79 million), and transportation equipment ($49 million).

Exports Sustain Wyoming Businesses many of which are SMEs

  • A total of 522 companies exported from Wyoming locations in 2022 (latest data available). Of those, 432 (83 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
  • Small and medium-sized firms generated 68.6 percent of Wyoming's total exports of goods in 2022.

Wyoming Depends on World Markets

  • The state’s largest market was Canada. Wyoming exported $401 million in goods to Canada in 2024, representing 19 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
  • Canada was followed by Chile ($245 million), Brazil ($140 million), Indonesia ($128 million), and China ($127 million).
  • Wyoming’s exports to major world areas included:

 

2024 Value

APEC

$1.5 billion

Asia

$805 million

European Union

$43 million

South/Central America and Caribbean

$643 million

Sub-Saharan Africa 

$4 million

 

  • 47 percent of Wyoming’s goods exports ($981 million) in 2024 went to current FTA partners.  

Agriculture in Wyoming depends on Exports

  • Wyoming is the country’s 39th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $410 million 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

beef and veal

$147 million

18

other livestock products

$61 million

26

other plant products

$53 million

46

feeds and other feed grains

$49 million

34

pork

$29 million

21

International Investment Creates Jobs in Wyoming

  • In 2022 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 11,400 Wyoming workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Wyoming included the United Kingdom, Canada and France.
  • Foreign investment in Wyoming was responsible for 5.4 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2022.

Wyoming’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting
In 2023 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Wyoming recorded goods exports: Casper ($106.3 million), and Cheyenne ($56.1 million).


Estimates of state exports of agricultural products by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and goods exports by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce are based on different methodologies and are not directly comparable.