Foreign direct investment inflows in Saint Lucia

Net foreign direct investment inflows to Saint Lucia were 7.3% of GDP in 2025.

Saint Lucia, 2025 7.3% % of GDP
Change from 2024 +0.1percentage points 2024: 7.2%
World, 2025 1.4% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 26th of 184 See the full ranking

Foreign direct investment inflows in Saint Lucia 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 Saint LuciaWorld
2025 7.3% 1.4%
2024 7.2% 1.2%
2023 8.3% 0.9%
2022 2.5% 1.9%
2021 3.8% 2.5%
2020 6.5% 1.3%
2019 3.6% 2.2%
2018 2.2% 1.2%
2017 4.5% 2.7%
2016 8.6% 3.5%
2015 8.4% 3.6%
2014 3.8% 2.4%
2013 7.6% 2.6%
2012 7.4% 2.7%
2011 6.2% 3.2%
2010 11.8% 2.7%
2009 9.6% 2.4%
2008 13.6% 3.7%
2007 15.2% 5.3%
2006 22.8% 4.2%
2005 10.2% 3.3%
2004 11.4% 2.2%
2003 16.6% 1.9%
2002 11.1% 2.1%
2001 11.7% 2.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 7.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 8.4%, the figure has changed by −1.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Saint Lucia has the 26th 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
1980 to 2025 for Saint Lucia
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