Foreign direct investment are the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net inflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world and is divided by GDP.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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| Hong Kong SAR, China | 1.3 | 4.3 | 41.1 | 22.6 | 36.2 | 38.7 | 28.5 | 27.9 | 44.6 | 58.5 | 41.5 | 36.8 | 26.8 | 16.1 | 34.0 | 37.2 | 34.1 | 32.0 | 28.7 |
| Singapore | 4.8 | 15.4 | 16.1 | 15.1 | 23.1 | 17.6 | 18.7 | 20.9 | 21.8 | 22.7 | 20.4 | 29.7 | 22.1 | 28.3 | 22.8 | 33.3 | 29.4 | 26.2 | 27.8 |
| Timor-Leste | 0.2 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.1 | -7.8 | -30.3 | -10.1 | -8.4 | 3.1 | 12.3 | |||
| Maldives | 2.6 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 8.4 | 15.3 | 7.9 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 7.2 | 10.4 | 9.5 | 10.7 | 16.8 | 11.9 | 12.2 | 11.8 | 11.6 | 11.6 | |
| Cambodia | 3.2 | 5.4 | 10.2 | 9.6 | 11.2 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.5 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 9.7 | 10.0 | 10.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 9.5 | ||
| Vietnam | 2.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.2 | |
| Georgia | 4.3 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 10.2 | 11.4 | 10.7 | 11.7 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 3.4 | 6.7 | 9.2 | 6.8 | 4.0 | ||
| Malaysia | 2.4 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 3.7 |
| Australia | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.6 | -3.6 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 3.2 |
| Uzbekistan | 0.5 | 1.5 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 2.5 | ||
| Tajikistan | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2.1 | ||
| Thailand | 0.6 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 1.0 | -0.9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Philippines | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| Solomon Islands | 4.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 18.5 | 11.3 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 1.9 | |
| Indonesia | 1.6 | 1.0 | -2.8 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| New Zealand | 2.2 | 3.7 | -2.9 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| India | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Pakistan | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Armenia | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 0.5 | ||
| Japan | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Samoa | 0.0 | 5.2 | -0.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.9 | -0.2 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Bangladesh | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| Azerbaijan | 2.5 | 33.8 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 5.9 | 7.6 | 11.9 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 1.2 | -3.1 | -5.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
| Brunei Darussalam | 47.8 | 0.1 | 8.4 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 1.3 | -1.3 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 1.5 | -1.7 | -0.4 | 0.2 |
| Nepal | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| China | 1.0 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
| Kazakhstan | 7.5 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 12.5 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 | -0.2 | ||
| Fiji | 2.9 | -2.3 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 7.8 | 4.4 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 8.4 | 5.9 | 5.4 | 9.5 | 2.1 | 1.7 | |
| Kiribati | 0.8 | 1.0 | 2.3 | -4.0 | -0.2 | -1.2 | 0.4 | 1.3 | -0.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | -0.5 | -0.3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||
| Korea, Rep. | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.1 | |
| Lao PDR | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 7.5 | 5.9 | 9.9 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 11.2 | ||
| Marshall Islands | 0.6 | 2.4 | -5.8 | -2.5 | 11.8 | 17.5 | 4.9 | -2.9 | -1.5 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |||
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 6.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mongolia | 4.7 | 7.4 | 23.5 | 43.9 | 34.8 | 16.4 | 2.8 | 0.8 | -37.2 | 13.0 | 14.8 | 17.2 | 12.9 | 14.2 | 14.6 | 11.1 | |||
| Myanmar | 7.6 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 4.2 | 2.2 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 6.9 | 5.2 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | ||
| Palau | 1.0 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 4.2 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 16.4 | 12.4 | 21.7 | 16.7 | 17.4 | 15.9 | 16.6 | 13.3 | 28.2 | 17.0 | ||
| Papua New Guinea | 20.1 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -0.2 | -0.8 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | -0.1 | 3.8 | 0.3 | |
| Tonga | 0.1 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | -0.2 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 4.0 | -3.4 | 4.7 | -1.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.0 | ||
| Tuvalu | 0.0 | 1.4 | -0.3 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||
| Vanuatu | 7.8 | 7.4 | 3.4 | 9.4 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | ||
| Kyrgyz Republic | -0.2 | 1.7 | 9.9 | 11.1 | 4.0 | 8.3 | 4.6 | 17.1 | 9.1 | -1.4 | 1.7 | 4.3 | -4.9 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 3.2 | |||
| Turkmenistan | 4.5 | 5.2 | 16.1 | 11.6 | 8.9 | 7.3 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 6.2 | 5.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 2.3 | |||
| Afghanistan | 0.0 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||
| Bhutan | 0.6 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | -0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | -0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |||
| Sri Lanka | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 |