Primary income on foreign direct investment in current prices

(US dollars)

Russian Federation is the top country by primary income on FDI in the world. As of 2018, primary income on FDI in Russian Federation was 60,954 million US dollars that accounts for 18.62% of the world's primary income on FDI. The top 5 countries (others are Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico) account for 50.89% of it. The world's total primary income on FDI was estimated at 327,324 million US dollars in 2018.

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What is primary income on FDI?

Profit remittances on foreign direct investment covers payments of direct investment income (debit side), which consist of income on equity (dividends, branch profits, and reinvested earnings) and income on the inter-company debt (interest). Data are in current U.S. dollars.