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Foreign direct investment around the world
192 economies reporting · click a country for its profile
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS). Colour classes are septiles of positive values in the selected year.
Highest 15, 2024
192 of all economies with data
| # | Economy | Inflows % GDP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malta | 170% |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 114% |
| 3 | Cayman Islands | 40.9% |
| 4 | Guyana | 35.0% |
| 5 | Hong Kong SAR | 30.8% |
| 6 | Singapore | 23.6% |
| 7 | Palau | 21.5% |
| 8 | Mozambique | 15.4% |
| 9 | Suriname | 15.1% |
| 10 | Namibia | 14.2% |
| 11 | Mauritania | 13.2% |
| 12 | Grenada | 12.1% |
| 13 | Timor-Leste | 12.1% |
| 14 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 12.0% |
| 15 | Egypt | 12.0% |
About this measure
FDI net inflows scaled by the size of the economy — the best single measure for comparing economies of different sizes.
World Bank code BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · Sources & methods
Reading net FDI flows with care
FDI flows are recorded net: new investment minus disinvestment and loan repayments, so they can be negative. In financial centres such as Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland and the Cayman Islands, large pass-through flows by holding companies and special-purpose entities swing sharply from year to year. Scaled by a small GDP, they can produce extreme values in the % of GDP view — a sign of corporate structuring rather than new factories.