Countries by foreign direct investment, net inflows

Liechtenstein had the highest foreign direct investment, net inflows of 194 countries in 2016, at 972.69% of GDP. Mongolia had the lowest, at -37.17% of GDP. The median was 2.72% of GDP and the figure for the World was 3.52% of GDP. Source: the World Bank.

Highest972.69Liechtenstein

Lowest-37.17Mongolia

Median2.72194 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2016

% 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	2016 % of GDP	Change on 2015
1	Liechtenstein	972.69	-309.91 pts
2	Cayman Islands	54.68	-1,655.15 pts
3	Hungary	53.85	+58.21 pts
4	Hong Kong	41.53	-16.99 pts
5	Netherlands	34.87	-13.6 pts
6	Luxembourg	28.26	-47.37 pts
7	Ireland	26.13	-48.69 pts
8	Mozambique	25.92	+2.05 pts
9	Switzerland	24.46	+7.36 pts
10	Malta	23.08	-9.02 pts
11	Palau	21.32	+9.11 pts
12	Singapore	20.31	-2.35 pts
13	Guinea	18.83	+18.22 pts
14	Cyprus	15.83	-121.39 pts
15	Equatorial Guinea	15.62	+6.61 pts
16	Kazakhstan	12.55	+8.98 pts
17	Belgium	12.13	+16.36 pts
18	Saint Kitts and Nevis	12.06	-1.34 pts
19	United Kingdom	12	+10.46 pts
20	Azerbaijan	11.88	+4.26 pts
21	Georgia	10.75	-0.65 pts
22	Maldives	10.35	+3.14 pts
23	Grenada	10.31	-5.17 pts
24	Barbados	9.82	-2.26 pts
25	Cambodia	9.32	+1.78 pts
26	New Caledonia	9.28	-4.5 pts
27	Liberia	9.17	+1.96 pts
28	Kyrgyzstan	9.09	-8.04 pts
29	Panama	8.78	-0.4 pts
30	Albania	8.71	+0.08 pts
31	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.66	-7.09 pts
32	Saint Lucia	8.65	+0.23 pts
33	São Tomé and Príncipe	7.98	-2.76 pts
34	Fiji	7.94	+3.56 pts
35	Nicaragua	7.44	-0.14 pts
36	Suriname	6.98	+3.4 pts
37	Dominica	6.9	+5.67 pts
38	Cape Verde	6.83	+1.34 pts
39	Turkmenistan	6.73	-1.77 pts
40	Antigua and Barbuda	6.54	-1.39 pts
41	Jamaica	6.23	+0.05 pts
42	Ghana	6.21	-0.25 pts
43	Djibouti	6.14	+0.21 pts
44	Ethiopia	6.05	+1.82 pts
45	Laos	5.88	-1.59 pts
46	Serbia	5.58	-0.1 pts
47	Czechia	5.48	+4.58 pts
48	Honduras	5.28	-0.99 pts
49	Slovakia	5.28	+3.57 pts
50	Montenegro	5.2	-12.25 pts
51	Myanmar	5.18	-1.67 pts
52	North Macedonia	5.15	+2.2 pts
53	Lebanon	5.02	+0.7 pts
54	Somalia	4.99	+0.06 pts
55	Colombia	4.9	+0.94 pts
56	Vietnam	4.9	-0.03 pts
57	Vanuatu	4.86	+1.23 pts
58	Gambia	4.7	-0.52 pts
59	Madagascar	4.56	+1.67 pts
60	Chile	4.56	-2.77 pts
61	Malaysia	4.47	+1.2 pts
62	Costa Rica	4.45	-0.78 pts
63	Ukraine	4.42	+4.64 pts
64	Curaçao	4.4	-0.39 pts
65	Seychelles	4.36	-3.04 pts
66	Mauritania	4.23	-3.88 pts
67	Brazil	4.14	+0.55 pts
68	Macao	4.13	+3.05 pts
69	Tonga	3.95	+0.58 pts
70	Poland	3.82	+0.52 pts
71	Estonia	3.77	+6.84 pts
72	Israel	3.73	-0.01 pts
73	Peru	3.66	-0.24 pts
74	Spain	3.62	+1.65 pts
75	Portugal	3.56	+2.93 pts
76	Jordan	3.55	-0.22 pts
77	Australia	3.55	+0.09 pts
78	Mexico	3.5	+0.51 pts
79	Tajikistan	3.46	-2.03 pts
80	Romania	3.37	+0.95 pts
81	Namibia	3.35	-4.05 pts
82	Dominican Republic	3.33	+0.19 pts
83	Bahamas	3.29	+2.64 pts
84	Slovenia	3.27	-0.79 pts
85	Rwanda	3.25	+1.34 pts
86	Saudi Arabia	3.19	+2.61 pts
87	Armenia	3.17	+1.42 pts
88	Zambia	3.16	-4.28 pts
89	Burkina Faso	3.04	+1.08 pts
90	Oman	3.02	+5.78 pts
91	Sweden	3.02	+1.07 pts
92	Croatia	2.99	+2.03 pts
93	Mauritius	2.97	+1.19 pts
94	Niger	2.91	-2.55 pts
95	Sint Maarten	2.91	+0.95 pts
96	Bulgaria	2.76	-1.62 pts
97	Lithuania	2.74	+0.24 pts
98	Solomon Islands	2.71	+0.24 pts
99	Belarus	2.61	-0.31 pts
100	Philippines	2.6	+0.76 pts
101	Russia	2.55	+2.05 pts
102	United States	2.52	-0.27 pts
103	United Arab Emirates	2.52	+0.28 pts
104	Denmark	2.5	+1.89 pts
105	Sudan	2.5	-0.85 pts
106	Senegal	2.48	+0.18 pts
107	Egypt	2.44	+0.34 pts
108	Chad	2.43	-1.41 pts
109	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.42	-0.49 pts
110	Sierra Leone	2.28	-1.44 pts
111	Paraguay	2.27	+0.05 pts
112	Canada	2.24	-1.62 pts
113	Finland	2.19	-5.35 pts
114	Uganda	2.14	-0.14 pts
115	Mali	2.13	+0.36 pts
116	El Salvador	1.98	-0.13 pts
117	Cameroon	1.96	-0.19 pts
118	India	1.94	-0.15 pts
119	Morocco	1.93	-1.02 pts
120	Guinea-Bissau	1.93	+0.32 pts
121	Palestine	1.92	+1.17 pts
122	Lesotho	1.84	-2.96 pts
123	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.83	-0.51 pts
124	Tanzania	1.74	-1.44 pts
125	Uzbekistan	1.7	+0.63 pts
126	Zimbabwe	1.67	-0.33 pts
127	Germany	1.64	-0.18 pts
128	Türkiye	1.59	-0.64 pts
129	China	1.53	-0.62 pts
130	Gabon	1.48	+1.19 pts
131	Malawi	1.46	-1.66 pts
132	Belize	1.46	-1.23 pts
133	France	1.44	-0.32 pts
134	Tunisia	1.4	-0.72 pts
135	Greece	1.4	+0.75 pts
136	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.38	+7.86 pts
137	Italy	1.36	+0.64 pts
138	Guyana	1.29	-1.92 pts
139	Guatemala	1.28	-0.65 pts
140	Latvia	1.23	-1.86 pts
141	Côte d’Ivoire	1.19	+0.11 pts
142	French Polynesia	1.12	+0.63 pts
143	Benin	1.11	-0.2 pts
144	Moldova	1.1	-1.8 pts
145	New Zealand	1.06	+1.1 pts
146	Sri Lanka	1.02	+0.22 pts
147	Bolivia	0.99	-0.69 pts
148	Venezuela	0.99	-1.32 pts
149	Botswana	0.94	-1.85 pts
150	Aruba	0.92	+1.83 pts
151	Algeria	0.91	+1.19 pts
152	Bangladesh	0.88	-0.57 pts
153	Kiribati	0.88	+1.3 pts
154	Nigeria	0.85	+0.23 pts
155	Thailand	0.84	-1.38 pts
156	Pakistan	0.82	+0.26 pts
157	Japan	0.8	+0.69 pts
158	Ecuador	0.78	-0.58 pts
159	South Korea	0.77	+0.5 pts
160	Haiti	0.75	+0.03 pts
161	Tuvalu	0.73	-0.09 pts
162	Eswatini	0.72	-0.08 pts
163	Bahrain	0.72	+0.52 pts
164	Iran	0.7	+0.2 pts
165	South Africa	0.68	+0.25 pts
166	Kenya	0.63	-0.26 pts
167	Argentina	0.58	-1.39 pts
168	Central African Republic	0.56	+0.39 pts
169	Afghanistan	0.52	-0.37 pts
170	Qatar	0.51	-0.15 pts
171	Bhutan	0.5	+0.21 pts
172	Indonesia	0.49	-1.81 pts
173	Republic of the Congo	0.46	-33.96 pts
174	Nepal	0.43	+0.22 pts
175	Comoros	0.35	-0.16 pts
176	Timor-Leste	0.33	-2.37 pts
177	Samoa	0.3	-2.96 pts
178	Kuwait	0.27	+0.02 pts
179	Cuba	0.08	+0.22 pts
180	Burundi	0	-0.26 pts
181	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.1	-0.76 pts
182	Papua New Guinea	-0.19	-0.33 pts
183	Angola	-0.3	-10.07 pts
184	Togo	-0.76	-5.24 pts
185	Uruguay	-0.9	-5.53 pts
186	Bermuda	-1.06	+1.09 pts
187	Brunei	-1.32	-2.65 pts
188	Marshall Islands	-1.51	+1.42 pts
189	Yemen	-1.79	-1.75 pts
190	Iraq	-3.75	+0.79 pts
191	Norway	-4.87	-6.69 pts
192	Iceland	-5.06	-11.53 pts
193	Austria	-7.24	-5.44 pts
194	Mongolia	-37.17	-37.98 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. 8 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2016 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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Which country has the highest foreign direct investment, net inflows?

Liechtenstein, with 972.69% of GDP in 2016, according to the World Bank.

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

Mongolia, with -37.17% of GDP in 2016.

Where does this ranking come from?

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. 8 countries have no value for 2016 and are not ranked.

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