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Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 1996

Figures for 1996, as UNCTAD published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Foreign direct investment inflows are what foreign companies and investors put into lasting stakes in a country's businesses in a year — new plants, acquisitions, reinvested profits and loans between parts of the same company — shown as a share of GDP so that economies of every size can be compared. It is a flow net of what foreign owners took out, so it can be negative.

Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 1996 covers 183 countries on 2 measures. British Virgin Islands is highest, at 216.3913; Liberia is lowest, at -53.5341. The middle country reads 1.2923. Against 1995, 179 values changed (112 up, 67 down), 4 countries joined, 3 left.

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Foreign Direct Investment Inflows · Data for 1996

HighestBritish Virgin Islands

216.3913

LowestLiberia

-53.5341

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 1996, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 183 countries · select a heading to sort

Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 1996: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean216.39131,109.550—
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa72.7925247.639—
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean66.43181,231.710—
AnguillaAIACaribbean30.296533.230—
BahrainBHRWestern Asia29.01532,048.200—
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia18.6051591.000—
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean12.367142.644—
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia11.872511,432.371—
VanuatuVUTMelanesia11.551932.732—
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia11.5310653.600—
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean10.532935.174—
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia9.71312,395.000—
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia8.3754293.700—
GuyanaGUYSouth America8.258392.914—
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia8.1840159.800—
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe7.6654293.009—
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia7.23557,297.000—
HungaryHUNEastern Europe7.04533,299.576—
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia6.9015580.700—
LatviaLVANorthern Europe6.5935382.364—
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia6.549110,460.174—
PeruPERSouth America6.27993,471.149—
ChileCHLSouth America6.12744,814.616—
DominicaDMACaribbean5.967317.800—
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean5.8605356.300—

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. British Virgin Islands216.3913
  2. Equatorial Guinea72.7925
  3. Cayman Islands66.4318
  4. Anguilla30.2965
  5. Bahrain29.0153

Lowest

  1. Liberia-53.5341
  2. Gabon-7.8678
  3. Yemen-0.8251
  4. Montserrat-0.5727
  5. Libya-0.3571

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.2923. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • FDI inflows (US$ millions, current prices)

    HighestUnited States84,455.000

    LowestGabon-498.616

    Middle country: 111.294

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −3countries joined / left
  • 179values changed, of 179 in both
  • 112 · 67rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Eritrea+ Iraq+ Nepal+ North Korea− Burundi− Palau− El Salvador

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • 183 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (1996). Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fdi-inflows/1996

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