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💰 Foreign direct investment, net

Foreign direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy.

📅 2025📏 USD billion137 entries
The 7 highest and 7 lowest of 137 entries; 103 are below zero. Bars to the left of the line are negative.
1
🇱🇺Luxembourg
$224.5B
2
🇯🇵Japan
$172.0B
3
🇳🇱Netherlands
$117.4B
4
🇺🇸United States
$82.6B
5
🇨🇳China
$77.2B
6
🇩🇰Denmark
$35.8B
7
🇫🇷France
$35.6B
8
🇨🇭Switzerland
$32.3B
9
🇰🇷South Korea
$25.4B
10
🇮🇹Italy
$22.0B
11
🇪🇸Spain
$18.6B
12
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
$15.1B
13
🇧🇪Belgium
$14.9B
14
🇩🇪Germany
$12.9B
15
🇮🇪Ireland
$11.4B
16
🇳🇴Norway
$10.4B
17
🇭🇺Hungary
$9.1B
18
🇮🇶Iraq
$8.0B
19
🇦🇹Austria
$5.6B
20
🇫🇮Finland
$4.9B
21
🇰🇼Kuwait
$2.6B
22
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
$1.4B
23
🇪🇪Estonia
$1.1B
24
🇻🇪Venezuela
$0.8B
25
🇧🇼Botswana
$0.8B
26
🇬🇹Guatemala
$0.6B
27
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
$0.5B
28
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
$0.4B
29
🇶🇦Qatar
$0.3B
30
🇮🇸Iceland
$0.2B
31
🇧🇲Bermuda
$0.1B
32
🇹🇯Tajikistan
$0.0B
33
🇧🇿Belize
$0.0B
34
🇸🇩Sudan
$0.0B
35
🇼🇸Samoa
$-0.0B
36
🇰🇮Kiribati
$-0.0B
37
🇹🇴Tonga
$-0.0B
38
🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis
$-0.0B
39
🇧🇮Burundi
$-0.0B
40
🇱🇸Lesotho
$-0.0B
41
🇳🇵Nepal
$-0.0B
42
🇩🇲Dominica
$-0.0B
43
🇱🇻Latvia
$-0.1B
44
🇸🇿Eswatini
$-0.1B
45
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
$-0.1B
46
🇲🇴Macau
$-0.1B
47
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
$-0.1B
48
🇨🇻Cape Verde
$-0.1B
49
🇧🇳Brunei
$-0.2B
50
🇦🇩Andorra
$-0.2B

Highlights

As of 2025, Luxembourg ranks first with $224.5B, followed by Japan ($172.0B) and Netherlands ($117.4B).

Across 137 countries and territories, values run from $224.5B (Luxembourg) to $-64.9B (Singapore), with a median of $-0.7B.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 3 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Foreign direct investment, net (BoP, current US$), 2025. Unit: USD billion.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Foreign direct investment, net (BoP, current US$) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026