United States Capacity Utilization 1967-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Capacity Utilization in the United States increased to 77.99 percent in April from 77.56 percent in March of 2018. Capacity Utilization in the United States averaged 80.27 percent from 1967 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 89.39 percent in January of 1967 and a record low of 66.71 percent in June of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-03-16	01:15 PM	Capacity Utilization	78.1%	77.4%	77.7%	77.6%
2018-04-17	01:15 PM	Capacity Utilization	78%	77.7%	77.9%	78%
2018-05-16	01:15 PM	Capacity Utilization	78%	77.6%	78.4%	78.3%
2018-06-15	01:15 PM	Capacity Utilization		78%		77.9%
2018-07-17	01:15 PM	Capacity Utilization				78%
2018-08-15	12:45 PM	Capacity Utilization				78.2%

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	57.30	59.30	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	56.60	56.50	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	55.70	54.60	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	56.80	58.80	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	55.70	54.90	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	3.50	3.70	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.70	0.70	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.80	2.50	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	77.99	77.56	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	2.60	3.50	22.10	-17.90	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	2.80	3.00	24.80	-18.60	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.00	0.90	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.30	0.20	4.60	-7.30	percent	[+]
New Orders	507690.00	497984.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	1.60	1.60	10.20	-9.40	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.00	0.60	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	33.07	15.56	132.20	-206.10	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.30	0.90	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	23106.00	23157.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	1767.00	1738.20	1767.00	14.40	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	104.80	104.70	107.70	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	64.30	54.00	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	34.40	23.20	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	20.10	15.80	39.00	-35.10	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	16.00	-3.00	30.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.34	0.32	2.76	-5.16		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	21.80	22.80	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	57.60	57.40	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	3.08	3.19	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	522.69	431.32	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.15	17.48	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	5.78	-1.40	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	106.00	89.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	1883.00	-3790.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	122.63	122.34	184.16	70.21	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	18747.58	17235.62	18747.58	3609.31	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	128949703.00	127873899.00	146874246.00	89399946.00	IP	[+]
API Crude Oil Stock Change	-1.30	4.85	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	844.00	844.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	75.00	74.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	16.00	18.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.85	5.70	5.85	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	2.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	6.00	8.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7261.00	6446.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	10.60	10.60	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Capacity Utilization

Capacity utilization rate is used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used. The capacity indexes cover all facilities located in the United States, regardless of their ownership; and are constructed for 89 detailed industries (71 in manufacturing, 16 in mining, and 2 in utilities). This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Capacity Utilization - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Capacity Utilization - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on May of 2018.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	77.99	77.56	89.39	66.71	1967 - 2018	percent	Monthly	Seasonally Adjusted

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capacity utilization by Country

Country	Last		Previous	Highest	Lowest
Australia	82.45	Apr/18	82.36	84.67	78.24	%	Monthly
Brazil	78.20	Mar/18	78	84.6	76.1	%	Monthly
Canada	86.00	Dec/17	85.1	87.3	72.7	%	Quarterly
China	76.50	Mar/18	78	78	72.9	%	Quarterly
Euro Area	84.40	Jun/18	84.4	85.3	69.6	%	Quarterly
France	85.20	Jun/18	85.7	90.3	71.4	%	Quarterly
Germany	87.70	Jun/18	87.9	88.7	70.2	%	Quarterly
Indonesia	76.27	Mar/18	75.05	79.78	62.43	%	Quarterly
Italy	77.50	Mar/18	78.5	81	64.9	%	Quarterly
Japan	102.40	Mar/18	102	138	69.3	Index Points	Monthly
Mexico	81.20	Mar/18	81	82.5	74.1	%	Monthly
Netherlands	83.60	Jun/18	83.5	86.5	74.4	%	Quarterly
Russia	64.00	Apr/18	64	66	38	%	Monthly
South Korea	102.40	Mar/18	103	114	4.2	Index Points	Monthly
Spain	80.20	Jun/18	79.4	90	68.86	%	Quarterly
Switzerland	83.53	Jun/18	84.01	90	75.04	%	Quarterly
Turkey	77.30	Apr/18	77.8	82	58.7	%	Monthly
United Kingdom	82.90	Jun/18	81.2	85.2	38	%	Quarterly
United States	77.99	Apr/18	77.56	89.39	66.71	%	Monthly