Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)

Indicator id: fdi_net_inflows_gdp_share · Unit: % · Coverage: 1970-2024

Net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10% or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in the economy, as a percentage of GDP.

Sources

• World Bank (preferred) -- dataset WDI, code BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS (https://data.worldbank.org)

Caveats

Can be negative (net divestment) or, for small tax-haven-like economies under global ingestion, exceptionally large; Nepal's FDI inflows are consistently small as a share of GDP relative to South Asian peers.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 10.b -- Encourage development assistance to states where the need is greatest
Topic: Economy & Growth, Private Sector
Themes: economy

Also known as

"FDI", "foreign direct investment", "foreign investment share of GDP"

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