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Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 2014

Figures for 2014, 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, 2014 covers 201 countries on 2 measures. British Virgin Islands is highest, at 3,358.4797; Iraq is lowest, at -4.4552. The middle country reads 2.7387. Against 2013, 200 values changed (94 up, 106 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Foreign Direct Investment Inflows · Data for 2014

HighestBritish Virgin Islands

3,358.4797

LowestIraq

-4.4552

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, 2014, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 201 countries · select a heading to sort

Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 2014: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean3,358.479740,462.0—
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1,009.031146,040.6—
CyprusCYPWestern Asia213.247449,528.7—
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe94.253711,205.0—
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia38.7833113,037.8—
BahamasBHSCaribbean31.87843,551.0—
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe29.155420,060.3—
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa27.26514,901.8—
AnguillaAIACaribbean25.293979.8Asset/liability basis.
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia23.275773,286.6—
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.684352,515.2—
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean17.4923134.8Asset/liability basis.
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean16.7079159.1Asset/liability basis.
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa16.5730230.0—
PalauPLWMicronesia16.392239.9—
New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia15.59421,658.4—
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa14.022341.4—
TongaTONPolynesia12.950156.0—
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa11.9170276.7—
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.5302103,951.6—
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe10.8667497.7—
GrenadaGRDCaribbean10.449495.2Asset/liability basis.
BarbadosBRBCaribbean10.4213592.4—
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia10.22461,837.0—
ChileCHLSouth America9.855725,566.1—

02In 2014

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 Islands3,358.4797
  2. Cayman Islands1,009.0311
  3. Cyprus213.2474
  4. Malta94.2537
  5. Hong Kong38.7833

Lowest

  1. Iraq-4.4552
  2. Marshall Islands-4.3360
  3. Chad-3.8568
  4. Lithuania-1.0313
  5. Yemen-0.7016

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.7387. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • FDI inflows (US$ millions, current prices)

    HighestUnited States201,733.0

    LowestIraq-10,176.4

    Middle country: 823.0

032013 → 2014

Since 2013

What changed between 2013 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 200values changed, of 200 in both
  • 94 · 106rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Micronesia− Libya

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

  • 187 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) (2014). Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fdi-inflows/2014

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