Foreign direct investment inflows in Austria

Net foreign direct investment inflows to Austria were -2.0% of GDP in 2025.

Austria, 2025 -2.0% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −4.6percentage points 2024: 2.6%
European Union, 2025 1.2% Official aggregate
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025 2.0% Middle value of 27 countries
Position in 2025 175th of 184 See the full ranking

Foreign direct investment inflows in Austria over time

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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Foreign direct investment, net inflows, as a share of GDP (% of GDP), 2001 to 2025
Period AustriaEuropean Union
2025 -2.0% 1.2%
2024 2.6% 1.0%
2023 0.6% -1.3%
2022 3.0% 1.4%
2021 4.0% 3.9%
2020 -2.8% 1.2%
2019 -2.9% 3.7%
2018 -6.2% 0.5%
2017 3.4% 4.0%
2016 -7.2% 5.2%
2015 -1.8% 6.2%
2014 0.4% 3.0%
2013 -0.3% 4.0%
2012 1.3% 4.0%
2011 5.4% 5.7%
2010 -5.6% 3.3%
2009 3.6% 3.9%
2008 1.5% 5.0%
2007 17.8% 10.0%
2006 3.1% 7.2%
2005 25.8% 6.1%
2004 1.1% 2.7%
2003 2.4% 3.0%
2002 0.1% 3.7%
2001 2.9% 5.0%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −4.6 percentage points from 2.6% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -1.8%, the figure has changed by −0.2 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Austria has the 175th highest value.
  • The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 1.2%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments and International Financial Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1970 to 2025 for Austria
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments and International Financial Statistics