This is the list of countries by flows of received foreign direct investment (FDI). The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
According to World Bank, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) refers to direct investment equity flows in an economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. In the following table, WB figures shows net inflows of investment to the reporting economy from the rest of the world. Data are in current U.S. dollars. [1] [2]
According to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, "inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows record the value of cross-border direct investment transactions received by the reporting economy during a year. Inward flows represent transactions that increase the investment that foreign investors from the source country have in enterprises resident in the reporting economy, less transactions that decrease the investment of foreign investors in resident enterprises." [3]
Sorting is alphabetical by country code, according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.
Country/Territory/Region/Group | WB [1] [2] | OECD [3] | ||||
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FDI, net inflows | Year | FDI, net inflows as % of GDP | Year | Inward FDI flows | Year | |
(millions USD) | (%) | (millions USD) | ||||
WORLD | 1740220.700 | 2022 | 1.680% | 2022 | ||
Aruba | 248.150 | 2022 | 4.272% | 2021 | ||
Afghanistan | 20.601 | 2021 | 0.141% | 2021 | ||
Angola | −6598.653 | 2022 | −6.184% | 2022 | ||
Albania | 1441.382 | 2022 | 7.634% | 2022 | ||
United Arab Emirates | 22736.555 | 2022 | 4.480% | 2022 | ||
Argentina | 15408.347 | 2022 | 2.435% | 2022 | ||
Armenia | 998.055 | 2022 | 5.118% | 2022 | ||
Antigua and Barbuda | 195.851 | 2022 | 11.143% | 2022 | ||
Australia | 67118.916 | 2022 | 4.006% | 2022 | 25052.948 | 2021 |
Austria | −1408.908 | 2022 | −0.299% | 2022 | 13492.195 | 2021 |
Azerbaijan | −4474.481 | 2022 | −5.684% | 2022 | ||
Burundi | 12.884 | 2022 | 0.419% | 2022 | ||
Belgium | 9792.975 | 2022 | 1.693% | 2022 | 11585.856 | 2021 |
Benin | 266.603 | 2022 | 1.532% | 2022 | ||
Burkina Faso | 121.295 | 2022 | 0.642% | 2022 | ||
Bangladesh | 1555.405 | 2022 | 0.338% | 2022 | ||
Bulgaria | 3216.630 | 2022 | 3.613% | 2022 | ||
Bahrain | 1951.330 | 2022 | 4.396% | 2022 | ||
Bahamas | 1254.832 | 2022 | 9.729% | 2022 | ||
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 645.101 | 2022 | 2.630% | 2022 | ||
Belarus | 1613.026 | 2022 | 2.216% | 2022 | ||
Belize | 133.556 | 2022 | 4.729% | 2022 | ||
Bermuda | −32.893 | 2022 | −0.436% | 2022 | ||
Bolivia | −11.935 | 2022 | −0.028% | 2022 | ||
Brazil | 91502.104 | 2022 | 4.765% | 2022 | ||
Barbados | 200.000 | 2022 | 3.547% | 2022 | ||
Brunei | −292.416 | 2022 | −1.753% | 2022 | ||
Bhutan | 9.670 | 2022 | 0.267% | 2021 | ||
Botswana | 216.459 | 2022 | 1.064% | 2022 | ||
Central African Republic | 24.048 | 2022 | 1.009% | 2022 | ||
Canada | 53705.242 | 2022 | 2.510% | 2022 | 60243.237 | 2021 |
Switzerland | 27707.326 | 2022 | 3.430% | 2022 | −156550.821 | 2021 |
Chile | 20864.903 | 2022 | 6.931% | 2022 | 14188.775 | 2021 |
China | 180166.881 | 2022 | 1.003% | 2022 | ||
Ivory Coast | 1583.695 | 2022 | 2.262% | 2022 | ||
Cameroon | 888.545 | 2022 | 2.004% | 2022 | ||
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1845.773 | 2022 | 3.179% | 2022 | ||
Republic of the Congo | 532.256 | 2022 | 3.642% | 2022 | ||
Colombia | 16868.746 | 2022 | 4.905% | 2022 | 9727.142 | 2021 |
Comoros | 3.859 | 2022 | 0.311% | 2022 | ||
Cape Verde | 122.386 | 2022 | 5.287% | 2022 | ||
Costa Rica | 3560.958 | 2022 | 5.208% | 2022 | 3195.676 | 2021 |
Curaçao | 140.680 | 2022 | 5.397% | 2021 | ||
Cayman Islands | 24590.020 | 2022 | 429.520% | 2021 | ||
Cyprus | 11132.327 | 2022 | 39.145% | 2022 | ||
Czech Republic | 10529.731 | 2022 | 3.619% | 2022 | 5805.076 | 2021 |
Germany | 47374.917 | 2022 | 1.163% | 2022 | 31263.009 | 2021 |
Djibouti | 190.854 | 2022 | 5.430% | 2022 | ||
Dominica | 28.215 | 2022 | 4.610% | 2022 | ||
Denmark | 27041.426 | 2022 | 6.839% | 2022 | 4680.746 | 2021 |
Dominican Republic | 3961.600 | 2022 | 3.486% | 2022 | ||
Algeria | 75.197 | 2022 | 0.039% | 2022 | ||
Ecuador | 829.042 | 2022 | 0.721% | 2022 | ||
Egypt | 11399.900 | 2022 | 2.391% | 2022 | ||
Eritrea | −32.046 | 2022 | 1.889% | 2011 | ||
Spain | 42294.130 | 2022 | 3.026% | 2022 | 18947.493 | 2021 |
Estonia | 1530.123 | 2022 | 4.016% | 2022 | 187.972 | 2021 |
Ethiopia | 3669.991 | 2022 | 2.895% | 2022 | ||
Finland | 9139.669 | 2022 | 3.255% | 2022 | 13804.399 | 2021 |
Fiji | 103.582 | 2022 | 2.095% | 2022 | ||
France | 105424.958 | 2022 | 3.788% | 2022 | 26972.564 | 2021 |
Federated States of Micronesia | 20.209 | 2014 | 6.330% | 2014 | ||
Gabon | 1104.592 | 2022 | 5.242% | 2022 | ||
United Kingdom | 44126.903 | 2022 | 1.437% | 2022 | 14606.238 | 2021 |
Georgia | 2033.803 | 2022 | 8.266% | 2022 | ||
Ghana | 1472.600 | 2022 | 2.022% | 2022 | ||
Guinea | 658.300 | 2022 | 3.101% | 2022 | ||
Gambia | 236.000 | 2022 | 10.382% | 2022 | ||
Guinea-Bissau | 21.941 | 2022 | 1.343% | 2022 | ||
Equatorial Guinea | 458.510 | 2022 | 3.881% | 2022 | ||
Greece | 6846.333 | 2022 | 3.125% | 2022 | 6327.423 | 2021 |
Grenada | 159.968 | 2022 | 12.732% | 2022 | ||
Guatemala | 1338.345 | 2022 | 1.409% | 2022 | ||
Guyana | 4408.443 | 2022 | 28.705% | 2022 | ||
Hong Kong | 120951.629 | 2022 | 33.613% | 2022 | ||
Honduras | 1081.726 | 2022 | 3.410% | 2022 | ||
Croatia | 3669.272 | 2022 | 5.171% | 2022 | ||
Haiti | 39.303 | 2022 | 0.194% | 2022 | ||
Hungary | −13984.795 | 2022 | −7.822% | 2022 | 7558.400 | 2021 |
Indonesia | 21428.338 | 2022 | 1.624% | 2022 | ||
India | 49940.258 | 2022 | 1.475% | 2022 | ||
Ireland | 14952.576 | 2022 | 2.825% | 2022 | −6248.817 | 2021 |
Iran | 1500.000 | 2022 | 0.386% | 2022 | ||
Iraq | −2088.200 | 2022 | −0.790% | 2022 | ||
Iceland | 961.239 | 2022 | 3.453% | 2022 | 24.967 | 2021 |
Israel | 27868.400 | 2022 | 5.338% | 2022 | 21486.400 | 2021 |
Italy | 31228.075 | 2022 | 1.553% | 2022 | −8953.728 | 2021 |
Jamaica | 318.736 | 2022 | 1.864% | 2022 | ||
Jordan | 1137.042 | 2022 | 2.396% | 2022 | ||
Japan | 47522.407 | 2022 | 1.123% | 2022 | 24649.566 | 2021 |
Kazakhstan | 4907.466 | 2022 | 2.224% | 2022 | ||
Kenya | 393.583 | 2022 | 0.347% | 2022 | ||
Kyrgyzstan | 290.850 | 2022 | 2.661% | 2022 | ||
Cambodia | 3578.831 | 2022 | 11.947% | 2022 | ||
Kiribati | 1.032 | 2022 | 0.462% | 2022 | ||
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 15.536 | 2022 | 1.616% | 2022 | ||
South Korea | 17996.000 | 2022 | 1.081% | 2022 | 14612.569 | 2021 |
Kuwait | 752.255 | 2022 | 0.408% | 2022 | ||
Laos | 528.225 | 2022 | 3.359% | 2022 | ||
Lebanon | 457.878 | 2022 | 2.581% | 2021 | ||
Liberia | 73.107 | 2022 | 1.827% | 2022 | ||
Libya | 0.000 | 2020 | 0.000% | 2020 | ||
Saint Lucia | 66.612 | 2022 | 3.226% | 2022 | ||
Liechtenstein | −87212.094 | 2018 | −1303.109% | 2018 | ||
Sri Lanka | 898.295 | 2022 | 1.207% | 2022 | ||
Lesotho | −7.819 | 2022 | −0.306% | 2022 | ||
Lithuania | 685.714 | 2022 | 0.975% | 2022 | 2773.120 | 2021 |
Luxembourg | −322053.781 | 2022 | −391.437% | 2022 | −32674.644 | 2020 |
Latvia | 1216.506 | 2022 | 2.956% | 2022 | 3320.719 | 2021 |
Macau | 4000.000 | 2022 | 18.199% | 2022 | ||
Morocco | 2177.846 | 2022 | 1.623% | 2022 | ||
Moldova | 592.040 | 2022 | 4.105% | 2022 | ||
Madagascar | 396.244 | 2022 | 2.650% | 2022 | ||
Maldives | 721.896 | 2022 | 11.663% | 2022 | ||
Mexico | 38931.994 | 2022 | 2.753% | 2022 | 27634.921 | 2020 |
Marshall Islands | 2.574 | 2022 | 0.920% | 2022 | ||
North Macedonia | 870.412 | 2022 | 6.417% | 2022 | ||
Mali | 252.913 | 2022 | 1.343% | 2022 | ||
Malta | 4829.251 | 2022 | 27.184% | 2022 | ||
Myanmar | 1238.500 | 2022 | 2.086% | 2022 | ||
Montenegro | 872.575 | 2022 | 14.314% | 2022 | ||
Mongolia | 2504.295 | 2022 | 14.897% | 2022 | ||
Mozambique | 2539.017 | 2022 | 14.223% | 2022 | ||
Mauritania | 1147.555 | 2022 | 11.060% | 2022 | ||
Mauritius | 252.104 | 2022 | 1.955% | 2022 | ||
Malawi | 188.564 | 2022 | 1.432% | 2022 | ||
Malaysia | 14725.970 | 2022 | 3.624% | 2022 | ||
Namibia | 932.012 | 2022 | 7.393% | 2022 | ||
New Caledonia | 696.307 | 2022 | 7.881% | 2021 | ||
Niger | 580.737 | 2022 | 4.157% | 2022 | ||
Nigeria | −186.792 | 2022 | −0.039% | 2022 | ||
Nicaragua | 1293.800 | 2022 | 8.256% | 2022 | ||
Netherlands | −11506.546 | 2022 | −1.161% | 2022 | −77617.077 | 2021 |
Norway | 4777.329 | 2022 | 0.825% | 2022 | 6676.599 | 2021 |
Nepal | 65.456 | 2022 | 0.160% | 2022 | ||
New Zealand | 7828.092 | 2022 | 3.166% | 2022 | 3992.221 | 2021 |
Oman | 3715.648 | 2022 | 3.240% | 2022 | ||
Pakistan | 1339.000 | 2022 | 0.356% | 2022 | ||
Panama | 2640.423 | 2022 | 3.451% | 2022 | ||
Peru | 10848.487 | 2022 | 4.471% | 2022 | ||
Philippines | 9199.943 | 2022 | 2.276% | 2022 | ||
Palau | 58.050 | 2022 | 14.944% | 2021 | ||
Papua New Guinea | 326.715 | 2022 | 1.067% | 2022 | ||
Poland | 35305.000 | 2022 | 5.130% | 2022 | 29587.868 | 2021 |
North Korea | 10.000 | 2022 | ||||
Portugal | 9099.403 | 2022 | 3.612% | 2022 | 9613.292 | 2021 |
Paraguay | 473.692 | 2022 | 1.135% | 2022 | ||
Palestine | 232.941 | 2022 | 1.219% | 2022 | ||
French Polynesia | −9.480 | 2022 | −0.421% | 2021 | ||
Qatar | 76.099 | 2022 | 0.032% | 2022 | ||
Romania | 11882.526 | 2022 | 3.944% | 2022 | ||
Russia | −40043.500 | 2022 | −1.787% | 2022 | ||
Rwanda | 398.599 | 2022 | 2.994% | 2022 | ||
Saudi Arabia | 7886.342 | 2022 | 0.712% | 2022 | ||
Sudan | 573.504 | 2022 | 1.110% | 2022 | ||
Senegal | 2586.180 | 2022 | 9.342% | 2022 | ||
Singapore | 140844.052 | 2022 | 30.173% | 2022 | ||
Solomon Islands | 40.719 | 2022 | 2.552% | 2022 | ||
Sierra Leone | 250.000 | 2022 | 6.297% | 2022 | ||
El Salvador | −0.389 | 2022 | −0.001% | 2022 | ||
Somalia | 636.000 | 2022 | 7.827% | 2022 | ||
Serbia | 4593.001 | 2022 | 7.233% | 2022 | ||
South Sudan | 121.500 | 2022 | 0.001% | 2015 | ||
São Tomé and Príncipe | 126.604 | 2022 | 23.159% | 2022 | ||
Suriname | −9.305 | 2022 | −0.257% | 2022 | ||
Slovakia | 4052.339 | 2022 | 3.509% | 2022 | 58.702 | 2021 |
Slovenia | 2180.393 | 2022 | 3.510% | 2022 | 1773.082 | 2021 |
Sweden | 50046.398 | 2022 | 8.541% | 2022 | 20327.158 | 2021 |
Eswatini | 13.350 | 2022 | 0.275% | 2022 | ||
Sint Maarten | 13.462 | 2022 | 0.857% | 2022 | ||
Seychelles | 212.054 | 2022 | 13.350% | 2022 | ||
Syria | 804.163 | 2011 | 1.191% | 2011 | ||
Turks and Caicos Islands | 35.000 | 2022 | 3.073% | 2022 | ||
Chad | 614.019 | 2022 | 4.833% | 2022 | ||
Togo | −226.939 | 2022 | −2.793% | 2022 | ||
Thailand | 10196.092 | 2022 | 2.058% | 2022 | ||
Tajikistan | 174.305 | 2022 | 1.661% | 2022 | ||
Turkmenistan | 936.040 | 2022 | 3.149% | 2020 | ||
Timor-Leste | 262.459 | 2022 | 8.297% | 2022 | ||
Tonga | 2.867 | 2022 | 0.055% | 2021 | ||
Trinidad and Tobago | −913.502 | 2022 | −3.274% | 2022 | ||
Tunisia | 713.365 | 2022 | 1.529% | 2022 | ||
Turkey | 13094.000 | 2022 | 1.445% | 2022 | 12365.810 | 2021 |
Tuvalu | 0.199 | 2021 | 0.331% | 2021 | ||
Tanzania | 1111.461 | 2022 | 1.468% | 2022 | ||
Uganda | 1526.189 | 2022 | 3.350% | 2022 | ||
Ukraine | 366.000 | 2022 | 0.228% | 2022 | ||
Uruguay | 9403.623 | 2022 | 13.212% | 2022 | ||
United States | 388078.000 | 2022 | 1.524% | 2022 | 389194 | 2021 |
Uzbekistan | 2498.441 | 2022 | 3.108% | 2022 | ||
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 86.366 | 2022 | 9.105% | 2022 | ||
Venezuela | 941.333 | 2022 | 0.235% | 2014 | ||
British Virgin Islands | 38118.551 | 2022 | ||||
Vietnam | 17900.000 | 2022 | 4.379% | 2022 | ||
Vanuatu | −4.068 | 2022 | −0.414% | 2022 | ||
Samoa | 4.800 | 2022 | 0.577% | 2022 | ||
Kosovo | 811.468 | 2022 | 8.606% | 2022 | ||
Yemen | −370.983 | 2019 | −1.695% | 2019 | ||
South Africa | 9194.808 | 2022 | 2.265% | 2022 | ||
Zambia | 10.809 | 2022 | 0.036% | 2022 | ||
Zimbabwe | 341.500 | 2022 | 1.652% | 2022 | ||
Caribbean small states | 5945.308 | 2022 | 6.397% | 2022 | ||
Pacific island small states | 209.556 | 2022 | 1.678% | 2022 | ||
LDCs (Least developed countries) | 20638.698 | 2022 | 1.502% | 2022 | ||
Low & middle income (WB) | 545397.043 | 2022 | 1.419% | 2022 | ||
Low-income (WB) | 13833.341 | 2022 | 3.126% | 2022 | ||
Middle-income (WB) | 531563.702 | 2022 | 1.399% | 2022 | ||
Lower middle income (WB) | 117240.133 | 2022 | 1.444% | 2022 | ||
Upper middle income (WB) | 414323.569 | 2022 | 1.386% | 2022 | ||
High-income (WB) | 1193882.323 | 2022 | 1.843% | 2022 | ||
European Union | 94516.643 | 2022 | 0.568% | 2022 | ||
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) | 840797.094 | 2022 | 1.411% | 2022 |
The economy of Georgia is an emerging free market economy. Its gross domestic product fell sharply following the dissolution of the Soviet Union but recovered in the mid-2000s, growing in double digits thanks to the economic and democratic reforms brought by the peaceful Rose Revolution. Georgia continued its economic progress since, "moving from a near-failed state in 2003 to a relatively well-functioning market economy in 2014". In 2007, the World Bank named Georgia the World's number one economic reformer, and has consistently ranked the country at the top of its ease of doing business index.
The economy of Kazakhstan is the largest in Central Asia in both absolute and per capita terms. In 2021, Kazakhstan attracted more than US$370 billion of foreign investments since becoming an independent republic after the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
The economy of Laos is a lower-middle income developing economy. Being one of the socialist states, the Lao economic model resembles the Chinese socialist market and/or Vietnamese socialist-oriented market economies by combining high degrees of state ownership with openness to foreign direct investment and private ownership in a predominantly market-based framework.
The economy of Mauritius is a mixed developing economy based on agriculture, exports, financial services, and tourism. Since the 1980s, the government of Mauritius has sought to diversify the country's economy beyond its dependence on just agriculture, particularly sugar production.
The economy of Moldova is an emerging upper-middle income economy, with a high Human Development Index. Moldova is a landlocked Eastern European country, bordered by Ukraine on the East and Romania to the West. It is a former Soviet republic and today a candidate member to the European Union.
The economy of Slovakia is based upon Slovakia becoming an EU member state in 2004, and adopting the euro at the beginning of 2009. Its capital, Bratislava, is the largest financial centre in Slovakia. As of Q1 2018, the unemployment rate was 5.72%.
The economy of Togo has struggled greatly. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) ranks it as the tenth poorest country in the world, with development undercut by political instability, lowered commodity prices, and external debts. While industry and services play a role, the economy is dependent on subsistence agriculture, with industrialization and regional banking suffering major setbacks.
A foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to purchase of an asset in another country, such that it gives direct control to the purchaser over the asset. In other words, it is an investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business, in real estate or in productive assets such as factories in one country by an entity based in another country. It is thus distinguished from a foreign portfolio investment or foreign indirect investment by a notion of direct control.
Portfolio investments are investments in the form of a group (portfolio) of assets, including transactions in equity, securities, such as common stock, and debt securities, such as banknotes, bonds, and debentures.
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Algeria's economy continued to recover in the first half of 2022, led by a return of oil production to pre-pandemic levels and a continued recovery of the service sector along with a more vigorous agricultural activity. The recovery should continue into 2023, supported by the nonhydrocarbon sector and public expenditure growth, according to the latest edition of the World Bank's Algeria Economic Update.
Remittances to India are money transfers from non-resident Indians (NRIs) employed outside the country to family, friends or relatives residing in India. India is the world's top receiver of remittances, claiming more than 12% of the world's remittances in 2015. Remittances to India stood at US$110 billion in 2022 and remittances from India to other countries totalled US$5.710 billion, for a net inflow of US$63.258 billion in 2017.
Foreign direct investments in Kosovo play an important role in the region's economy. However, this type of investment has historically been limited. Foreign sovereign investors in Kosovo primarily include regional European countries such as Germany, Turkey, Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia. A majority of foreign investment is concentrated in Pristina, with particular focus in the areas of banking, construction, and transportation.
A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country. It is thus distinguished from a foreign portfolio investment by a notion of direct control. Broadly, foreign direct investment includes "mergers and acquisitions, building new facilities, reinvesting profits earned from overseas operations, and intra company loans". FDI is the sum of equity capital, long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. FDI usually involves participation in management, joint-venture, transfer of technology and expertise. Stock of FDI is the net cumulative FDI for any given period. Direct investment excludes investment through purchase of shares.