List of countries by FDI received

The following list sorts countries according to their received foreign direct investment . A foreign direct investment is any investment that a country has received from companies or private individuals from abroad. With a direct investment, not only capital flows, but also knowledge and technology. Direct investments are therefore part of the international movement of capital (and thus of globalization ).

Top 50 countries by investment received

Countries by net foreign direct investment received in 2016. All data from the World Bank . FDI in a broader sense defines and includes cash flows in the financial services sector, greatly inflating the numbers of some countries.

rank	country	received foreign Investments in million USD	year
1	United States	479,415	2016
2	United Kingdom	292.993	2016
3	People's Republic of China	170,556	2016
4th	Netherlands	153.975	2016
5	Hong Kong	117.110	2016
6th	Ireland	79.163	2016
7th	Brazil	78.167	2016
8th	Hungary	68,715	2016
9	Singapore	61,597	2016
	British Virgin Islands	59.097	2016
10	Germany	52,474	2016
	Cayman Islands	44,968	2016
11	India	44,459	2016
12	Australia	42,049	2016
13	Belgium	37.013	2016
14th	France	35,407	2016
15th	Japan	34,905	2016
16	Mexico	33,930	2016
17th	Russia	32,539	2016
18th	Spain	32,116	2016
19th	Canada	32.106	2016
20th	Luxembourg	26,857	2016
21st	Italy	18,352	2016
22nd	Kazakhstan	16,975	2016
23	Poland	16,758	2016
24	Sweden	15,332	2016
25th	Colombia	13,726	2016
26th	Malaysia	13,515	2016
27	Vietnam	12,600	2016
28	Turkey	12,307	2016
29	Chile	12,225	2016
30th	Israel	11,902	2016
31	South Korea	10,827	2016
32	Portugal	9.214	2016
33	United Arab Emirates	8,985	2016
34	Egypt	8.107	2016
35	Philippines	7,980	2016
36	Saudi Arabia	7,453	2016
37	Peru	6,863	2016
38	Czech Republic	6,497	2016
39	Denmark	6,407	2016
40	Panama	5,994	2016
41	Romania	5,373	2016
42	Turkmenistan	4,522	2016
43	Azerbaijan	4,500	2016
44	Nigeria	4,434	2016
45	Indonesia	4.142	2016
46	Angola	4,104	2016
47	Ethiopia	3,989	2016
48	Slovakia	3,548	2016
49	Ghana	3,485	2016
50	Ukraine	3,441	2016

Countries by stock

The following list of the CIA World Factbook sorts countries according to the cumulative received foreign direct investment (stock). FDI is defined in a broader sense and includes flows of money in the financial services sector, which greatly inflates the numbers of some countries. In addition, investments in countries that are considered to be tax havens such as B. Ireland is usually not done directly in the country, but in companies based there. All numbers are in millions of dollars.

rank	country	Stock of foreign Direct investment in USD million	year
1	United States	3,648,000	2016
2	United Kingdom	2,069,000	2016
3	Hong Kong	1,891,000	2016
4th	People's Republic of China	1,458,000	2016
5	Germany	1,416,000	2016
6th	Switzerland	1,359,000	2016
7th	Canada	1,099,000	2016
8th	Ireland	1,057,000	2016
9	Belgium	1,045,000	2016
10	Singapore	1,041,000	2016
11	Netherlands	844,000	2016
12	France	796.800	2016
13	Spain	781,400	2016
14th	Brazil	673,000	2016
15th	Australia	614,500	2016
16	Italy	472,300	2016
17th	Sweden	390,800	2016
18th	Mexico	384,300	2016
19th	India	351,800	2016
20th	Russia	348,000	2016
21st	Austria	304,700	2016
22nd	Indonesia	292,800	2016
23	Saudi Arabia	258,700	2016
24	Hungary	240,400	2016
25th	Poland	228,800	2016
	Cayman Islands	224,728	2015
26th	Norway	206.200	2016
27	Japan	204,300	2016
28	Turkey	198,400	2016
29	Chile	194,800	2016
30th	Thailand	190,600	2016
31	South Korea	179,600	2016
32	Malta	164,400	2015
33	Colombia	161,700	2016
34	Malaysia	154,700	2016
35	Finland	153,500	2016
36	Kazakhstan	148,100	2016
37	Cyprus	142,100	2016
38	Czech Republic	139,100	2016
39	Portugal	138,200	2016
40	Denmark	135,100	2016
41	United Arab Emirates	132,500	2016
42	South Africa	128,300	2016
43	Vietnam	114,700	2016
44	Israel	113,200	2016
45	Argentina	103,700	2016
46	Nigeria	98,730	2016
47	Egypt	94,510	2016
48	Peru	94,260	2016
49	Romania	76,410	2016
50	Taiwan	74,640	2016
51	Azerbaijan	72,700	2016
52	New Zealand	71,190	2016
53	Ukraine	65,950	2016
54	Philippines	62,800	2016
55	Slovakia	59,810	2016
56	Lebanon	58,608	2015
57	Morocco	51,700	2016
58	Panama	49,790	2016
59	Bulgaria	46,390	2016
60	Iran	46,100	2016
61	Croatia	41,170	2016
62	Serbia	39,340	2009
63	Tunisia	37,270	2016
64	Qatar	35,380	2016
65	Pakistan	33,820	2016
66	Venezuela	33,780	2016
67	Dominican Republic	33,390	2016
69	Costa Rica	31,860	2016
70	Jordan	31,200	2016
71	Cambodia	29,170	2014
72	Mozambique	28,768	2015
73	Trinidad and Tobago	27,810	2015
74	Iraq	26,630	2015
75	Algeria	25,540	2016
76	Sudan	24,410	2015
77	Republic of the Congo	23,496	2015
78	Uruguay	23,300	2016
79	Estonia	22,860	2016
80	Greece	22,150	2016
81	Kosovo	21,200	2016
82	Myanmar	20,476	2015
	Gibraltar	20,132	2015
83	Oman	20,027	2015
84	DR Congo	19,982	2015
85	Ghana	19,850	2013
86	Bahamas	19,136	2015
87	Libya	18,960	2016
88	Macau	18,910	2011
89	Tanzania	18,483	2015
90	Bahrain	18,320	2016
91	Ecuador	17,830	2016
92	Mongolia	17,620	2016
93	Iceland	17,190	2016
94	Zambia	16,544	2015
95	Latvia	16,410	2016
96	Lithuania	16,330	2016
97	Slovenia	15,640	2016
98	Laos	15,140	2012
99	Jamaica	14,102	2015
100	Equatorial Guinea	13,739	2015
101	Georgia	13,680	2016
102	Bangladesh	13,240	2016
103	Guatemala	13,167	2015
104	Angola	13,010	2015
105	Honduras	12,431	2015
106	Kuwait	12,390	2016
107	Uganda	10,887	2015
108	Ethiopia	10,692	2015
109	Bolivia	10,560	2013
110	El Salvador	10,560	2016
111	Belarus	10.170	2014
112	Sri Lanka	9,972	2015
113	Uzbekistan	9,888	2015
114	Nicaragua	8,919	2015
115	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7,920	2014
116	Cameroon	7,621	2015
117	Ivory Coast	7,318	2015
118	Paraguay	7.114	2016
119	Liberia	7,056	2015
120	Gabon	6,805	2015
121	Madagascar	6,795	2015
122	Barbados	6,667	2015
123	Mauritania	6,470	2015
124	North Macedonia	6,373	2016
125	Brunei	6,061	2015
126	Albania	5,557	2013
127	Kenya	5,537	2016
128	Niger	5,161	2015
129	Chad	4,901	2015
130	Kyrgyzstan	4,897	2016
131	Armenia	4,817	2013
132	Botswana	4,670	2015
133	Montenegro	4,344	2015
134	Fiji	4,077	2015
135	Namibia	3,707	2015
136	Mauritius	3,706	2015
137	Moldova	3,647	2014
138	Zimbabwe	3,413	2016
139	Papua New Guinea	3,318	2015
140	Turkmenistan	3,061	2013
141	Antigua and Barbuda	2,987	2015
142	Guyana	2,915	2015
143	Senegal	2,808	2015
144	Maldives	2,784	2015
145	Seychelles	2,762	2015
146	Mali	2,645	2016
147	St. Lucia	2,623	2015
148	Palestine	2,486	2015
	Bermuda	2,432	2015
149	Tajikistan	2,272	2013
150	Somalia	2.172	2015
151	Guinea	2,171	2015
152	St. Kitts and Nevis	2.156	2015
153	Belize	2,055	2015
154	Sierra Leone	1,848	2015
155	Rwanda	1,779	2016
156	Afghanistan	1,750	2015
157	Djibouti	1,767	2016
158	Burkina Faso	1,682	2015
159	Suriname	1,676	2015
160	Benin	1,666	2015
161	Grenada	1,565	2015
163	Cape Verde	1,486	2015
164	Malawi	1,486	2015
165	Togo	1,367	2015
166	Haiti	1,270	2015
167	Eritrea	886	2015
168	Dominica	833	2015
169	Swaziland	799	2015
170	Yemen	697	2015
171	North Korea	664	2015
172	Central African Republic	626	2015
173	Nepal	579	2015
174	Solomon Islands	522	2015
175	Sao Tome and Principe	376	2015
176	Gambia	350	2015
177	East Timor	332	2015
178	Lesotho	251	2015
179	Bhutan	215	2015
180	Guinea-Bissau	134	2015
181	Comoros	107	2015
182	Burundi	70	2015

See also

• List of countries by FDI made
• investment
• List of countries by gross domestic product
• List of countries by gross domestic product per capita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Definition of »direct investment« | Gabler Economic Lexicon . ( gabler.de [accessed June 1, 2017]).
2. ↑ Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US $) | Data. Retrieved January 9, 2018 (American English). 
3. ^ Welcome to the CIA Web Site - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved June 1, 2017 . 
4. ^ The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved June 1, 2017 . 
5. ↑ unctad.org | World Investment Report 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2017 (American English).