Foreign direct investment inflows in OECD members

Net foreign direct investment inflows to OECD member countries were 1.2% of GDP in 2025.

OECD members is a group: OECD member countries as grouped by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
OECD members, 2025 1.2% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: 0.9%
World, 2025 1.4% Official aggregate

Foreign direct investment inflows in OECD members 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 OECD membersWorld
2025 1.2% 1.4%
2024 0.9% 1.2%
2023 0.4% 0.9%
2022 1.7% 1.9%
2021 2.2% 2.5%
2020 0.9% 1.3%
2019 1.9% 2.2%
2018 0.3% 1.2%
2017 2.6% 2.7%
2016 3.9% 3.5%
2015 3.6% 3.6%
2014 2.0% 2.4%
2013 2.3% 2.6%
2012 2.2% 2.7%
2011 2.8% 3.2%
2010 2.1% 2.7%
2009 2.0% 2.4%
2008 3.5% 3.7%
2007 5.3% 5.3%
2006 4.0% 4.2%
2005 3.1% 3.3%
2004 2.0% 2.2%
2003 1.6% 1.9%
2002 2.1% 2.1%
2001 2.5% 2.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 0.9% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 3.6%, the figure has changed by −2.4 percentage points.
  • 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
1970 to 2025 for OECD members
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