Foreign direct investment inflows in Kiribati

Net foreign direct investment inflows to Kiribati were 1.2% of GDP in 2025.

Kiribati, 2025 1.2% % of GDP
Change from 2024 −1.2percentage points 2024: 2.4%
World, 2025 1.4% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 125th of 184 See the full ranking

Foreign direct investment inflows in Kiribati 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 KiribatiWorld
2025 1.2% 1.4%
2024 2.4% 1.2%
2023 1.8% 0.9%
2022 1.6% 1.9%
2021 0.4% 2.5%
2020 1.2% 1.3%
2019 -0.3% 2.2%
2018 -0.5% 1.2%
2017 0.4% 2.7%
2016 0.9% 3.5%
2015 -0.4% 3.6%
2014 1.3% 2.4%
2013 0.4% 2.6%
2012 -1.2% 2.7%
2011 -0.2% 3.2%
2010 -4.0% 2.7%
2009 3.6% 2.4%
2008 -0.9% 3.7%
2007 0.8% 5.3%
2006 0.5% 4.2%
2005 2.3% 3.3%
2004 1.9% 2.2%
2003 0.7% 1.9%
2002 0.3% 2.1%
2001 -0.4% 2.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −1.2 percentage points from 2.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was -0.4%, the figure has changed by +1.6 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Kiribati has the 125th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 1.4%.

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
1979 to 2025 for Kiribati
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