Europe & Central Asia 5%
Foreign direct investment foreign direct investment net inflows as a share of GDP, 2006 or latest available data
Greenland (Den) Faeroe Islands (Den)
less than 1.0% Iceland
1.0–1.9%
Sweden Finland
Norway The Netherlands
2.0–3.9%
C a n a d a
4.0–5.9%
United Kingdom
Isle of Man (UK)
Denmark
Ireland
6.0% or more no data
Fra
Luxembourg Liechtenstein Andorra
U n i t e d
S t a t e s
Monaco
Bermuda (UK)
Mexico
Cayman Islands (UK) Belize
Middle East & North Africa 4%
St. Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda
Haiti
Jamaica
Guadeloupe (Fr)
Dominica
Martinique (Fr) St. Lucia
Barbados
Cape Verde
Morocco Alg
Former Spanish Sahara Mauritania Senegal
Mali
Suriname
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
Sierra Leone Liberia
Belarus
Eritrea
Chad
Sudan
Burkina Faso Benin Côte Ghana d'Ivoire Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe
Ecuador
Poland
Niger
The Gambia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Grenada R.B. de French Guiana Venezuela Guyana (Fr) Colombia
Netherlands Antilles (Neth)
Latin America & Caribbean 2%
US Virgin Islands (US)
Dominican Republic Puerto Rico (US)
Cuba
Guatemala Honduras Aruba (Neth) El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica
Kiribati
Gibraltar (UK)
British Virgin Islands (UK)
The Bahamas
Spain
Portugal
F e d e r a t i o n
Czech Republic Slovak Republic Slovenia Croatia Ukraine Kazakhstan Serbia Austria nce Hungary Moldova Bosnia and Herzegovina Mongolia Switzerland Romania FYR Macedonia Italy Montenegro Bulgaria Uzbekistan Georgia Kyrgyz Republic Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Greece Turkmenistan Turkey Tajikistan Cyprus San Syrian Marino Islamic Republic Tunisia Lebanon Arab Rep. of Iran Afghanistan C h i Malta Iraq Israel Kuwait Jordan Pakistan West Bank and Gaza Nepal Bhutan eria Bahrain Libya Saudi Arabia Arab Rep. of Egypt United Arab Qatar Bangladesh India Emirates Myanmar Oman Germany Belgium
Channel Islands (UK)
R u s s i a n
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Rep. of Yemen
Cameroon
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Kenya
Federated States of Micronesia
Nauru
Indonesia
Tanzania
B r a z i l
Marshall Islands
Singapore
South Asia 2%
Seychelles Comoros
Zambia Malawi
American Samoa (US)
Timor-Leste
Fiji
Vanuatu
Bolivia Zimbabwe Mozambique Madagascar Namibia Botswana Réunion (Fr)
Paraguay
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Papua New Guinea
Mayotte (Fr)
Angola
French Polynesia (Fr)
Guam (US)
East Asia & Pacific 3%
Palau
Malaysia
Uganda Rwanda
Philippines
Brunei Darussalam
Somalia
Equatorial Guinea Congo Gabon
N. Mariana Islands (US)
Vietnam Cambodia
Ethiopia
Central African Republic
Japan
Lao P.D.R.
Djibouti Nigeria
Rep. of Korea
n a
Thailand
Dem. Rep. of Congo Burundi
Peru
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea
Tonga
New Caledonia (Fr)
Mauritius
A u s t r a l i a
Samoa
Swaziland Lesotho South Africa
Uruguay
Chile Argentina
Sub-Saharan Africa 2% New Zealand
High-income
China’s rapidly growing economy has benefitted from foreign direct investment
Developing countries that attracted the largest foreign direct investment net inflows, 2006 Rank
Developing countries
1
China
2
Russian Federation
3
Turkey
4
Mexico
5
Poland
6
Brazil
7
India
8
Romania
9
Egypt, Arab Rep. of
10
Thailand
3%
Facts
Luxembourg’s net outward direct investment in foreign economies in 2006 was nearly 2.7 times its GDP; Iceland’s was 33 percent of its GDP. 78.1 East Asia and Pacific received the highest net flow of portfolio equity— 30.8 $55 billion in 2006—accounting for more than half of the total for developing countries. China alone received 78 percent of this. 20.1 Turkey ($33 billion), Russian Federation ($27 billion), and 19.2 Kazakhstan ($26 billion) raised the largest net amount of capital 19.2 among all developing countries in 2006 through bond issuance and Delivered by The World Bank e-library to: commercial 18.8Bank - IMF Library The World Networkborrowing. IP : 138.220.77.170 Foreign direct investment net flows to high-income countries 17.5 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:02 accounted for nearly 74 percent of the world total in 2006. Among 11.4 developing regions, Europe and Central Asia received the highest 10.0 amount, having grown by 83 percent in nominal terms in 2006 to $114.3 billion. 9.0 $ billions
Internet links International Monetary Fund Balance of Payments Statistics
www.imfstatistics.org/bop
World Bank
www.worldbank.org/data
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, World Bank Group
www.unctad.org (go to Statistics, select Statistical databases online)
www.fdi.net
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