Countries by foreign direct investment, net inflows

Cayman Islands had the highest foreign direct investment, net inflows of 195 countries in 2015, at 1,709.83% of GDP. Turks and Caicos Islands had the lowest, at -6.48% of GDP. The median was 2.5% of GDP and the figure for the World was 3.61% of GDP. Source: the World Bank.

Highest1,709.83Cayman Islands

Lowest-6.48Turks and Caicos Islands

Median2.5195 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2015

% of GDP. Source: World Bank, Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 % of GDP	Change on 2014
1	Cayman Islands	1,709.83	+700.8 pts
2	Liechtenstein	1,282.61	+1,142.31 pts
3	Cyprus	137.22	-95.95 pts
4	Luxembourg	75.63	+46.47 pts
5	Ireland	74.82	+35.45 pts
6	Hong Kong	58.52	+13.97 pts
7	Netherlands	48.47	+32.48 pts
8	Republic of the Congo	34.42	+18.28 pts
9	Malta	32.1	+30.79 pts
10	Mozambique	23.87	-3.94 pts
11	Singapore	22.65	+0.84 pts
12	Montenegro	17.45	+6.6 pts
13	Kyrgyzstan	17.13	+12.54 pts
14	Switzerland	17.09	+14.26 pts
15	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	15.75	-0.39 pts
16	Grenada	15.47	+6.29 pts
17	New Caledonia	13.78	-2.74 pts
18	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13.4	-3.05 pts
19	Palau	12.21	-4.03 pts
20	Barbados	12.08	-1.18 pts
21	Georgia	11.4	+1.17 pts
22	São Tomé and Príncipe	10.74	+1.7 pts
23	Angola	9.78	+7.4 pts
24	Panama	9.18	-0.51 pts
25	Equatorial Guinea	9.01	+8.24 pts
26	Albania	8.63	-0.02 pts
27	Turkmenistan	8.5	-0.3 pts
28	Saint Lucia	8.42	+4.58 pts
29	Mauritania	8.12	+0.52 pts
30	Antigua and Barbuda	7.93	+4.58 pts
31	Azerbaijan	7.63	+1.74 pts
32	Nicaragua	7.58	-1.48 pts
33	Cambodia	7.54	-0.87 pts
34	Finland	7.54	+1.12 pts
35	Laos	7.47	+0.94 pts
36	Zambia	7.45	+1.89 pts
37	Namibia	7.4	+3.82 pts
38	Seychelles	7.39	-0.42 pts
39	Chile	7.33	-2.51 pts
40	Maldives	7.22	-1.8 pts
41	Liberia	7.21	-8.35 pts
42	Myanmar	6.85	+3.53 pts
43	Iceland	6.47	+2.23 pts
44	Ghana	6.46	+0.31 pts
45	Honduras	6.28	-2.35 pts
46	Jamaica	6.18	+1.99 pts
47	Djibouti	5.93	-0.96 pts
48	Serbia	5.67	+1.6 pts
49	Cape Verde	5.49	-3.35 pts
50	Tajikistan	5.49	+1.9 pts
51	Niger	5.47	-2.11 pts
52	Costa Rica	5.24	-1 pts
53	Gambia	5.22	+3.35 pts
54	Vietnam	4.93	+0.99 pts
55	Somalia	4.93	+0.37 pts
56	Lesotho	4.8	+0.93 pts
57	Curaçao	4.79	+2.52 pts
58	Uruguay	4.63	-2.01 pts
59	Togo	4.48	+3.64 pts
60	Fiji	4.39	-3.39 pts
61	Bulgaria	4.38	+2.46 pts
62	Lebanon	4.32	-1.63 pts
63	Ethiopia	4.23	+0.89 pts
64	Slovenia	4.05	+1.99 pts
65	Colombia	3.96	-0.28 pts
66	Peru	3.9	+1.78 pts
67	Canada	3.85	+0.3 pts
68	Chad	3.84	+7.57 pts
69	Jordan	3.77	-1.6 pts
70	Israel	3.74	+1.82 pts
71	Sierra Leone	3.72	-1.16 pts
72	Vanuatu	3.63	+2.12 pts
73	Brazil	3.59	+0.02 pts
74	Suriname	3.58	+4.72 pts
75	Kazakhstan	3.57	+0.27 pts
76	Australia	3.46	-0.83 pts
77	Tonga	3.37	+0.37 pts
78	Sudan	3.34	+0.81 pts
79	Poland	3.3	-0.56 pts
80	Malaysia	3.27	+0.13 pts
81	Samoa	3.26	+0.39 pts
82	Guyana	3.22	-2.54 pts
83	Tanzania	3.18	+0.34 pts
84	Dominican Republic	3.14	-0.42 pts
85	Malawi	3.12	-3.67 pts
86	Latvia	3.09	-0.36 pts
87	Mexico	2.99	+0.9 pts
88	North Macedonia	2.95	+2.41 pts
89	Morocco	2.95	-0.01 pts
90	Belarus	2.93	+0.56 pts
91	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.9	-1.01 pts
92	Madagascar	2.9	-0.08 pts
93	Moldova	2.9	-0.78 pts
94	Botswana	2.8	-0.53 pts
95	United States	2.8	+1.37 pts
96	Timor-Leste	2.7	+0.36 pts
97	Belize	2.7	-3.9 pts
98	Lithuania	2.5	+1.76 pts
99	Solomon Islands	2.46	+0.89 pts
100	Romania	2.43	+0.49 pts
101	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.34	-0.6 pts
102	Senegal	2.3	+0.27 pts
103	Venezuela	2.3	+1.79 pts
104	Indonesia	2.3	-0.52 pts
105	Uganda	2.28	-0.97 pts
106	United Arab Emirates	2.24	-0.37 pts
107	Türkiye	2.23	+0.81 pts
108	Thailand	2.22	+1 pts
109	Paraguay	2.22	-0.29 pts
110	Cameroon	2.16	+0.16 pts
111	China	2.15	-0.36 pts
112	Tunisia	2.12	+0.08 pts
113	El Salvador	2.11	-0.13 pts
114	Egypt	2.1	+0.59 pts
115	India	2.09	+0.4 pts
116	Zimbabwe	2	-0.43 pts
117	Argentina	1.98	+1.01 pts
118	Spain	1.97	-0.35 pts
119	Burkina Faso	1.96	-0.6 pts
120	Sint Maarten	1.96	-1.54 pts
121	Sweden	1.95	+2.99 pts
122	Guatemala	1.94	-0.5 pts
123	Rwanda	1.92	-1.94 pts
124	Philippines	1.84	-0.09 pts
125	Germany	1.82	+1.38 pts
126	Norway	1.82	+1.19 pts
127	Mauritius	1.78	-1.66 pts
128	Mali	1.77	+0.92 pts
129	France	1.77	+1.59 pts
130	Armenia	1.74	-1.76 pts
131	Slovakia	1.7	+2.06 pts
132	Bolivia	1.68	-0.31 pts
133	Guinea-Bissau	1.61	-0.93 pts
134	United Kingdom	1.54	-0.37 pts
135	Bangladesh	1.45	-0.02 pts
136	Ecuador	1.36	+0.61 pts
137	Brunei	1.32	-2.03 pts
138	Benin	1.32	-1.74 pts
139	Dominica	1.23	-0.93 pts
140	Macao	1.08	-3.33 pts
141	Côte d’Ivoire	1.08	+0.18 pts
142	Uzbekistan	1.07	+0.18 pts
143	Croatia	0.96	-4.39 pts
144	Czechia	0.9	-2.94 pts
145	Afghanistan	0.88	+0.67 pts
146	Kenya	0.88	-0.32 pts
147	Tuvalu	0.82	+0.04 pts
148	Mongolia	0.81	-1.95 pts
149	Eswatini	0.81	+0.2 pts
150	Sri Lanka	0.8	-0.28 pts
151	Palestine	0.75	-0.39 pts
152	Italy	0.72	-0.06 pts
153	Haiti	0.71	+0.06 pts
154	Qatar	0.66	+0.16 pts
155	Trinidad and Tobago	0.66	-1.59 pts
156	Greece	0.65	-0.5 pts
157	Bahamas	0.64	-1.61 pts
158	Portugal	0.64	-4.8 pts
159	Nigeria	0.62	-0.2 pts
160	Denmark	0.61	-1.25 pts
161	Guinea	0.61	+1.45 pts
162	Saudi Arabia	0.57	+0.38 pts
163	Pakistan	0.56	-0.14 pts
164	Comoros	0.51	+0.1 pts
165	Russia	0.5	-0.57 pts
166	Iran	0.5	+0.05 pts
167	French Polynesia	0.49	-0.52 pts
168	South Africa	0.44	-1.08 pts
169	Bhutan	0.29	-0.83 pts
170	Gabon	0.29	-6.65 pts
171	South Korea	0.27	-0.33 pts
172	Burundi	0.26	-3.13 pts
173	Kuwait	0.25	-0.05 pts
174	Nepal	0.21	+0.08 pts
175	Bahrain	0.2	-4.17 pts
176	Central African Republic	0.18	-0.01 pts
177	Papua New Guinea	0.14	+0.01 pts
178	Japan	0.12	-0.28 pts
179	South Sudan	0	-0.01 pts
180	Yemen	-0.04	+0.5 pts
181	New Zealand	-0.04	-1.66 pts
182	Cuba	-0.14	-0.13 pts
183	Ukraine	-0.22	-0.85 pts
184	Algeria	-0.29	-0.92 pts
185	Kiribati	-0.43	-1.74 pts
186	Aruba	-0.91	-8.37 pts
187	Austria	-1.8	-2.19 pts
188	Bermuda	-2.15	-2.1 pts
189	Oman	-2.76	-4.15 pts
190	Marshall Islands	-2.94	-7.8 pts
191	Estonia	-3.07	-9.65 pts
192	Belgium	-4.23	-1.41 pts
193	Hungary	-4.37	-13.49 pts
194	Iraq	-4.54	-0.09 pts
195	Turks and Caicos Islands	-6.48	+0.79 pts

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About this ranking

Net foreign investment inflows to acquire a lasting management interest of at least 10% of voting stock, as a percentage of GDP. Includes equity, reinvested earnings and other capital recorded in the balance of payments.

Net inflows subtract disinvestment from new investment. Negative values indicate net disinvestment; zero is a valid net balance. Flows can exceed GDP, particularly in financial centers. The latest year varies by country.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 7 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2015 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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World Bank, World Development Indicators. Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS), Countries by foreign direct investment, net inflows, 2015. World Bank, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/fdi-net-inflows-gdp/countries?period=2015. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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}

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Which country has the highest foreign direct investment, net inflows?

Cayman Islands, with 1,709.83% of GDP in 2015, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest foreign direct investment, net inflows?

Turks and Caicos Islands, with -6.48% of GDP in 2015.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 7 countries have no value for 2015 and are not ranked.

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