Foreign direct investment, net inflows, as a share of GDP
Net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10% or more of voting stock) in enterprises in the country, from foreign investors, as a percentage of GDP. Values can be negative when disinvestment exceeds new investment.
Highest in 2025
51.7%
Malta
Lowest in 2025
-32.7%
Luxembourg
Euro area, 2025
1.4%
Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025
184
Updated by the source on 8 October 2026
184 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend 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.
| Period | World | United States | China | India |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 1.2% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 0.9% | 1.3% | 0.3% | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1.0% | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 2.5% | 2.0% | 1.9% | 1.4% |
| 2020 | 1.3% | 0.6% | 1.7% | 2.4% |
| 2019 | 2.2% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 1.2% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% |
| 2017 | 2.7% | 1.9% | 1.3% | 1.5% |
| 2016 | 3.5% | 2.5% | 1.5% | 1.9% |
| 2015 | 3.6% | 2.8% | 2.1% | 2.1% |
| 2014 | 2.4% | 1.4% | 2.5% | 1.7% |
| 2013 | 2.6% | 1.7% | 3.0% | 1.5% |
| 2012 | 2.7% | 1.5% | 2.8% | 1.3% |
| 2011 | 3.2% | 1.7% | 3.7% | 2.0% |
| 2010 | 2.7% | 1.8% | 3.9% | 1.6% |
| 2009 | 2.4% | 1.1% | 2.5% | 2.7% |
| 2008 | 3.7% | 2.3% | 3.7% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | 5.3% | 2.4% | 4.3% | 2.1% |
| 2006 | 4.2% | 2.2% | 4.4% | 2.1% |
| 2005 | 3.3% | 1.1% | 4.5% | 0.9% |
| 2004 | 2.2% | 1.7% | 3.4% | 0.8% |
| 2003 | 1.9% | 1.0% | 3.4% | 0.6% |
| 2002 | 2.1% | 1.0% | 3.6% | 1.0% |
| 2001 | 2.6% | 1.6% | 3.5% | 1.1% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 184 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Malta (51.7%) and the lowest Luxembourg (-32.7%).
- Half of the countries are above 2.0% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 87 countries and fell in 97.
- The figure for the world was 1.4% in 2025, against 1.3% in 2020 (+0.1 percentage points).
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All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Malta 51.7%
- 2 Suriname 45.4%
- 3 Guyana 33.1%
- 4 Hong Kong SAR, China 28.3%
- 5 Guinea 27.4%
- 6 Cyprus 27.1%
- 7 Singapore 26.3%
- 8 Mozambique 25.8%
- 9 Palau 16.6%
- 10 Timor-Leste 13.3%
- 11 Antigua and Barbuda 12.1%
- 12 Grenada 12.0%
- 13 Maldives 11.1%
- 14 Mongolia 10.8%
- 15 Gambia 10.6%
- 16 São Tomé and Príncipe 10.5%
- 17 Ireland 10.4%
- 18 Kosovo 10.0%
- 19 Seychelles 10.0%
- 20 Cambodia 9.9%
- 21 Namibia 9.6%
- 22 Liberia 9.5%
- 23 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8.9%
- 24 Laos 7.7%
- 25 Montenegro 7.3%
- 26 Saint Lucia 7.3%
- 27 Dominica 6.8%
- 28 Nicaragua 6.8%
- 29 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 6.4%
- 30 Oman 6.2%
- 31 Albania 6.1%
- 32 Andorra 6.0%
- 33 Rwanda 5.9%
- 34 Costa Rica 5.4%
- 35 Mauritania 5.4%
- 36 Uganda 5.4%
- 37 Cabo Verde 5.0%
- 38 Mauritius 5.0%
- 39 Greece 4.8%
- 40 Malaysia 4.6%
- 41 Madagascar 4.5%
- 42 Zambia 4.5%
- 43 Georgia 4.3%
- 44 Israel 4.3%
- 45 Viet Nam 4.3%
- 46 Fiji 4.2%
- 47 Egypt 4.2%
- 48 Chile 4.1%
- 49 Serbia 3.9%
- 50 Dominican Republic 3.9%
- 51 Solomon Islands 3.8%
- 52 Bulgaria 3.7%
- 53 Denmark 3.7%
- 54 Republic of the Congo 3.7%
- 55 Malawi 3.6%
- 56 North Macedonia 3.5%
- 57 Portugal 3.5%
- 58 Brazil 3.4%
- 59 Barbados 3.4%
- 60 Jordan 3.3%
- 61 Lithuania 3.2%
- 62 Djibouti 3.2%
- 63 Thailand 3.2%
- 64 Peru 3.1%
- 65 Uzbekistan 3.0%
- 66 Canada 3.0%
- 67 Ethiopia 3.0%
- 68 Croatia 2.8%
- 69 Kyrgyzstan 2.8%
- 70 Mali 2.8%
- 71 Honduras 2.7%
- 72 Czechia 2.7%
- 73 Tonga 2.6%
- 74 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.6%
- 75 Sweden 2.6%
- 76 Saudi Arabia 2.6%
- 77 Colombia 2.5%
- 78 Mexico 2.4%
- 79 Vanuatu 2.4%
- 80 Armenia 2.4%
- 81 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.4%
- 82 Paraguay 2.4%
- 83 Sierra Leone 2.4%
- 84 Equatorial Guinea 2.3%
- 85 Uruguay 2.3%
- 86 Slovenia 2.3%
- 87 Moldova 2.3%
- 88 Macao SAR, China 2.2%
- 89 Romania 2.2%
- 90 Australia 2.1%
- 91 El Salvador 2.1%
- 92 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2.1%
- 93 Côte d'Ivoire 2.0%
- 94 Poland 2.0%
- 95 Tunisia 2.0%
- 96 Benin 2.0%
- 97 West Bank and Gaza 1.9%
- 98 Tanzania 1.9%
- 99 Germany 1.9%
- 100 Zimbabwe 1.9%
- 101 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 1.9%
- 102 Togo 1.9%
- 103 Morocco 1.8%
- 104 France 1.8%
- 105 Angola 1.8%
- 106 Gabon 1.8%
- 107 Belarus 1.8%
- 108 Libya 1.7%
- 109 Bahrain 1.7%
- 110 Ghana 1.7%
- 111 Philippines 1.7%
- 112 Indonesia 1.6%
- 113 Spain 1.5%
- 114 Central African Republic 1.4%
- 115 Turkmenistan 1.4%
- 116 Qatar 1.4%
- 117 Guatemala 1.4%
- 118 Nigeria 1.4%
- 119 Slovakia 1.3%
- 120 Guinea-Bissau 1.3%
- 121 Myanmar 1.3%
- 122 Lesotho 1.3%
- 123 New Zealand 1.3%
- 124 Jamaica 1.2%
- 125 Kiribati 1.2%
- 126 Niger 1.2%
- 127 Burkina Faso 1.1%
- 128 Burundi 1.0%
- 129 Marshall Islands 1.0%
- 130 Panama 1.0%
- 131 Ecuador 1.0%
- 132 Japan 1.0%
- 133 India 1.0%
- 134 Eswatini 1.0%
- 135 Cameroon 1.0%
- 136 United States 1.0%
- 137 Sri Lanka 1.0%
- 138 United Kingdom 0.9%
- 139 South Korea 0.8%
- 140 Latvia 0.8%
- 141 Kenya 0.8%
- 142 Bolivia 0.8%
- 143 Türkiye 0.8%
- 144 Ukraine 0.8%
- 145 Argentina 0.6%
- 146 Algeria 0.5%
- 147 Comoros 0.5%
- 148 Azerbaijan 0.5%
- 149 Tajikistan 0.5%
- 150 Pakistan 0.5%
- 151 Iran 0.5%
- 152 Russia 0.4%
- 153 Brunei 0.4%
- 154 China 0.4%
- 155 Tuvalu 0.4%
- 156 Bangladesh 0.4%
- 157 Netherlands 0.3%
- 158 Kuwait 0.3%
- 159 Bhutan 0.2%
- 160 Samoa 0.2%
- 161 Finland 0.1%
- 162 Senegal 0.1%
- 163 Nepal 0.1%
- 164 Haiti 0.0%
- 165 Italy 0.0%
- 166 Chad 0.0%
- 167 Belize 0.0%
- 168 Switzerland 0.0%
- 169 Sudan 0.0%
- 170 Naoero 0.0%
- 171 Kazakhstan -0.3%
- 172 South Africa -0.5%
- 173 Venezuela -0.5%
- 174 Norway -1.3%
- 175 Austria -2.0%
- 176 Iceland -2.2%
- 177 Estonia -2.2%
- 178 Iraq -3.0%
- 179 Trinidad and Tobago -3.1%
- 180 Botswana -3.3%
- 181 Papua New Guinea -3.6%
- 182 Belgium -4.0%
- 183 Hungary -28.4%
- 184 Luxembourg -32.7%
- East Asia and Pacific 1.7%
- Euro area 1.4%
- Europe and Central Asia 1.0%
- European Union 1.2%
- Latin America and Caribbean 2.8%
- Middle East and North Africa 2.3%
- North America 1.1%
- OECD members 1.2%
- South Asia 1.0%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 2.1%
- World 1.4%
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