Foreign direct investment inflows in Equatorial Guinea

Net foreign direct investment inflows to Equatorial Guinea were 2.3% of GDP in 2025.

Equatorial Guinea, 2025 2.3% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.9percentage points 2024: 1.4%
World, 2025 1.4% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 84th of 184 See the full ranking

Foreign direct investment inflows in Equatorial Guinea 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 Equatorial GuineaWorld
2025 2.3% 1.4%
2024 1.4% 1.2%
2023 -1.5% 0.9%
2022 10.1% 1.9%
2021 4.6% 2.5%
2020 -0.1% 1.3%
2019 7.2% 2.2%
2018 -1.1% 1.2%
2017 3.2% 2.7%
2016 15.6% 3.5%
2015 9.0% 3.6%
2014 0.8% 2.4%
2013 2.7% 2.6%
2012 4.4% 2.7%
2011 9.2% 3.2%
2010 16.8% 2.7%
2009 10.9% 2.4%
2008 -4.0% 3.7%
2007 9.5% 5.3%
2006 4.7% 4.2%
2005 9.4% 3.3%
2004 7.7% 2.2%
2003 27.8% 1.9%
2002 17.9% 2.1%
2001 64.4% 2.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.9 percentage points from 1.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 9.0%, the figure has changed by −6.7 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Equatorial Guinea has the 84th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 1.4%.

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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
1981 to 2025 for Equatorial Guinea
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