Foreign direct investment inflows in Mozambique

Net foreign direct investment inflows to Mozambique were 25.8% of GDP in 2025.

Mozambique, 2025 25.8% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +10.4percentage points 2024: 15.4%
World, 2025 1.4% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 8th of 184 See the full ranking

Foreign direct investment inflows in Mozambique 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 MozambiqueWorld
2025 25.8% 1.4%
2024 15.4% 1.2%
2023 12.8% 0.9%
2022 16.0% 1.9%
2021 32.8% 2.5%
2020 22.4% 1.3%
2019 21.8% 2.2%
2018 11.2% 1.2%
2017 17.5% 2.7%
2016 25.9% 3.5%
2015 23.9% 3.6%
2014 27.8% 2.4%
2013 38.9% 2.6%
2012 33.8% 2.7%
2011 25.1% 3.2%
2010 11.0% 2.7%
2009 7.6% 2.4%
2008 5.0% 3.7%
2007 3.9% 5.3%
2006 2.6% 4.2%
2005 1.4% 3.3%
2004 6.0% 2.2%
2003 5.1% 1.9%
2002 5.8% 2.1%
2001 4.5% 2.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +10.4 percentage points from 15.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 23.9%, the figure has changed by +1.9 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Mozambique has the 8th 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
1991 to 2025 for Mozambique
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