US capacity utilization
ObservedOutput as a share of sustainable maximum output for US manufacturing, mining and utilities.
Ingestedfrom Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- percent of capacity
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US capacity utilization, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Capacity utilization is the ratio of the industrial production index to the capacity index for the same industries, expressed as a percentage. Capacity is the greatest level of output a plant can maintain within a realistic work schedule. Federal Reserve G.17 release, FRED series TCU, monthly, seasonally adjusted.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-capacity-utilization
Production
Related metrics
Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED economic data (API)
- Series ID
TCUlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- License and attribution
- License review requiredFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
- Last source update
- 2026-08-18 08:18:14-05(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- fred-api/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Values are revised by the source; each revision is stored as a new row and the vintage date is kept as source_revision.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100 percent of capacity.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet