Facts & Figures

K ansas’s aircraft manufacturing and agricultural products are in increasing demand throughout the world. Kansas’s farm produce in particular is in high demand in Asia, driving a 50% increase in exports to China from 2009 to 2010.

Job Creation

Trade supported 377,300 jobs in Kansas in 2008, or 20.7% of total jobs, up from 11% in 1992.¹
More than one-quarter (26.9%) of all manufacturing workers in Kansas depended on exports for their jobs.²
In 2008, 53,500 people in Kansas were employed by U.S. affiliates of companies that are at least 50% foreign-owned.³

Exports and Growth

Kansas exported $9.9 billion in merchandise to foreign markets in 2010. Kansas’s largest market in 2010 was Canada ($2.5 billion), followed by Mexico ($1.3 billion), Japan ($585 million), China ($527 million), and the United Kingdom ($456 million).⁴
In 2008, 2,447 companies exported goods from Kansas. Of these, 84% were small- and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
Agricultural exports are important to Kansas’s economy, totaling $5.9 billion and supporting about 68,339 jobs in 2008.⁵
Since 2007, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has financed $240.8 million in exports from 40 companies in 19 communities in Kansas.⁶

Education and Research

In 2008–2009, 2,495 Kansas students studied abroad.⁷
During 2009–2010, 8,922 international students were enrolled in Kansas colleges and universities and contributed $186 million to the Kansas economy.⁸

Global Engagement

Since 1961, 1,529 Peace Corps volunteers from Kansas have served in dozens of countries overseas.⁹
Support from U.S. government grants and contracts to private voluntary organizations engaged in foreign assistance and development in Kansas totaled $3,867,724 in 2008.¹⁰

http://businessroundtable.org/uploads/studies-reports/downloads/Trade_and_American_Jobs.pdf
http://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/statereports/
http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2010/11%20November/1110_us_ops.pdf
http://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/statereports/
http://www.fas.usda.gov/info/factsheets/WTO/states.html
https://webappsprod01.exim.gov/apps/usmap/usmap.nsf
http://www.iie.org/en/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/Fact-Sheets-by-US-State
http://www.nafsa.org/publicpolicy/default.aspx?id=23158
http://multimedia.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/homestates.pdf
http://www.pvo.net/usaid/