Manufacturing Economy Monitor
Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products Manufacturing in Alaska
Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products manufacturing added $1.0B of value to Alaska's economy in 2024, down 14.1% year over year. That ranks Alaska 43th of 51 states and DC for this industry. It is 62.2% of Alaska's manufacturing output. Nationally, food, beverage, and tobacco products is a $355B industry (the 2nd-largest of the 19 manufacturing subsectors), per the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Output and rank
- Value added: $1.0B in 2024, #43 of 51 states and DC for this industry.
- Growth: -14.1% year over year.
- Share of Alaska's manufacturing: 62.2% of the state's total manufacturing value added.
- National context: food, beverage, and tobacco products is a $355B industry nationally, #2 of the 19 manufacturing subsectors (-1.6% year over year).
- Classification: nondurable goods manufacturing (BEA subsector 311FT).
Frequently asked questions
- How big is the food, beverage, and tobacco products industry in Alaska? Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products added $1.0B of value in Alaska in 2024, ranking the state 43th of 51 for this industry, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
- Is food, beverage, and tobacco products growing in Alaska? Alaska's food, beverage, and tobacco products output shrank 14.1% year over year to 2024. The chart above traces the full annual series since 1997.
- What share of Alaska's manufacturing is food, beverage, and tobacco products? Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products is 62.2% of Alaska's total manufacturing value added in 2024, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
About this data
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (public domain). National quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates. Corporate-profit industry detail reflects inventory valuation adjustment without capital consumption adjustment, per NIPA table 6.16D conventions.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.