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FDI flows - Foreign Direct Investment by Country and Region

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**FDI flows by country and region 2006-2008 (millions of US dollars) - inflows and outflows**
Region/economy	FDI inflows 2006	FDI inflows 2007	FDI inflows 2008	FDI outflows 2006	FDI outflows 2007	FDI outflows 2008
World	1 461 074	1 978 838	1 697 353	1 396 916	2 146 522	1 857 734
Developed economies	972 762	1 358 628	962 259	1 157 910	1 809 531	1 506 528
Europe	631 724	899 627	518 339	799 581	1 270 523	944 460
European Union	590 305	842 311	503 453	697 193	1 192 141	837 033
Austria	7 933	29 586	13 551	13 670	33 380	28 214
Belgium	58 893	110 773	59 680	50 685	93 901	68 278
Bulgaria	7 667	11 716	9 205	175	274	733
Cyprus	1 864	2 181	2 167	902	1 206	1 474
Czech Republic	5 459	10 437	10 731	1 467	1 619	1 900
Denmark	8 268	9 408	10 921	13 991	17 617	28 868
Estonia	1 788	2 736	1 969	1 112	1 737	1 089
Finland	7 652	12 351	-4 199	4 805	7 655	1 629
France	78 154	157 973	117 510	121 371	224 652	220 046
Germany	57 147	56 407	24 939	127 223	179 547	156 457
Greece	5 364	1 918	5 093	4 167	5 338	2 651
Hungary	7 532	6 088	6 514	3 874	3 737	1 661
Ireland	-5 542	24 707	-20 030	15 324	21 146	13 501
Italy	39 239	40 202	17 032	42 068	90 775	43 839
Latvia	1 664	2 247	1 426	173	335	231
Lithuania	1 840	2 017	1 815	290	608	356
Luxembourg	28 482	-31 692	3 012	3 425	57 994	-24 936
Malta	1 872	952	879	30	31	278
Netherlands	7 450	118 376	-3 492	65 175	28 544	57 571
Poland	15 591	22 612	16 533	8 875	4 748	3 582
Portugal	10 902	3 055	3 532	7 139	5 490	2 106
Romania	11 367	9 923	13 305	423	278	- 272
Slovakia	4 693	3 265	3 414	511	384	258
Slovenia	644	1 438	1 815	862	1 805	1 440
Spain	36 949	28 179	65 539	99 646	96 062	77 317
Sweden	27 247	22 070	43 655	23 540	37 797	37 351
United Kingdom	156 186	183 386	96 939	86 271	275 482	111 411
Other developed Europe	41 420	57 316	14 886	102 388	78 382	107 427
Gibraltar	137^a	165^a	159^a	..	..	..
Iceland	4 029	3 473	- 2 592	5 241	13 141	-6 981
Norway	6 415	4 433	- 95	21 326	15 580	28 113
Switzerland	30 839	49 245	17 415	75 821	49 661	86 295
North America	296 897	379 590	360 824	268 621	437 999	389 463
Canada	59 761	108 414	44 712	44 401	59 637	77 667
United States	237 136	271 176	316 112	224 220	378 362	311 796
Other developed economies	44 140	79 410	83 095	89 708	101 009	172 605
Australia	27 864	44 330	46 774	23 418	16 806	35 938
Bermuda	261	1 016	278	579	439	693
Israel	14 763	9 020	9 639	14 944	6 981	7 854
Japan	- 6 506	22 549	24 426	50 266	73 549	128 020
New Zealand	7 758	2 494	1 979	501	3 234	100
Developing economies	433 464	529 344	620 733	215 282	285 486	292 710
Africa	57 058	69 170	87 647	7 171	10 614	9 309
North Africa	23 155	24 786	24 001	134	5 545	8 635
Algeria	1 795	1 662	2 646	35	295	318
Egypt	10 043	11 578	9 495	148	665	1 920
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2 013	4 689	4 111	- 534	3 933	5 888
Morocco	2 450	2 803	2 388	445	621	369
Sudan	3 541	2 436	2 601	7	11	98
Tunisia	3 312	1 618	2 761	33	20	42
Other Africa	33 903	44 384	63 647	7 036	5 069	674
West Africa	16 095	15 934	25 969	547	868	1 393
Benin	53	255	120^a	- 2	- 6	- 3^a
Burkina Faso	34	344	137^a	1	-	-^a
Cape Verde	131	190	209	..	-	2
Côte d’ Ivoire	319	427	353^a	- 27^a	-^a	8^a
Gambia	71	76	63	..	..	..
Ghana	636	855	2 120	..	..	4
Guinea	125	386	1 350^a	..	..	694^a
Guinea-Bissau	18	19	15^a	-	-	-^a
Liberia	108	132	144	346^a	363^a	382^a
Mali	83	73	127^a	1	7	3^a
Mauritania	155	153	103^a	5^a	4^a	4^a
Niger	51	129	147^a	- 1	8	1^a
Nigeria	13 956	12 454	20 279^a	228	468	299^a
Saint Helena	-^a	-^a	..	..	..	..
Senegal	220	297	706^a	10	25	9^a
Sierra Leone	59	94	30^a	..	..	..
Togo	77	49	68^a	- 14	- 1	- 10^a
Central Africa	4 788	5 694	6 282	123	72	119
Burundi	-	1	1^a	..	-	..
Cameroon	309	284	260	- 1	- 2	2^a
Central African Republic	35	57	121	..	..	..
Chad	656	718	834	..	..	..
Congo	1 919	1 816	2 622^a	..	..	..
Congo, Democratic Republic of	- 108^a	720^a	1 000^a	..	..	..
Equatorial Guinea	1 656	1 726	1 290	..	..	..
Gabon	268	269	20	106^a	59^a	96^a
Rwanda	16	67	103	14	13	14^a
São Tomé and Principe	38	35	33^a	3	3	7^a
East Africa	2 643	4 028	4 272	63	108	114
Comoros	1	8^a	8^a	..	..	..
Djibouti	164	195	234	..	..	..
Eritrea	-^a	-^a	-^a	..	..	..
Ethiopia	545	222	93^a	..	..	..
Kenya	51	728	96	24	36	44
Madagascar	294	777	1 477	..	..	..
Mauritius	105	339	383	10	58	52
Mayotte	-^a	..	..	..	..	..
Seychelles	146	238	364	8	9	10
Somalia	96^a	141^a	87^a	..	..	..
Uganda	644	733	787	..	..	..
United Republic of Tanzania	597	647	744	20^a	5^a	8^a
Southern Africa	10 377	18 729	27 123	6 303	4 021	- 952
Angola	9 064	9 796	15 548	194	912	2 570
Botswana	486	495	- 4	50	51	3
Lesotho	92	106	199	..	..	..
Malawi	30	55	37^a	1	1	1^a
Mozambique	154	427	587	-	-	-
Namibia	387	733	746	- 12	3	5
South Africa	- 527	5 687	9 009	6 067	2 962	-3 533
Swaziland	36	37	10	2	3	-5
Zambia	616	1 324	939	..	86	..
Zimbabwe	40	69	52	-	3	8
Latin America and the Caribbean	93 303	127 491	144 377	63 319	51 741	63 207
South and Central America	69 014	105 996	121 418	45 101	26 266	37 255
South America	43 833	71 323	91 742	37 000	14 907	34 366
Argentina	5 537	6 473	8 853	2 439	1 504	1 351
Bolivia	281	366	513	-	7	4
Brazil	18 822	34 585	45 058	28 202	7 067	20 457
Chile	7 298	12 577	16 787	2 742	3 009	6 891
Colombia	6 656	9 049	10 564	1 098	913	2 158
Ecuador	271	194	974	8^a	8^a	9^a
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	-^a	..	..	..	..	..
Guyana	102	152	178	..	..	..
Paraguay	173	185	320	7	7	8
Peru	3 467	5 491	4 808	428^a	66	729
Suriname	323	316	- 234	..	..	..
Uruguay	1 493	1 288	2 205	- 1	89	1
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	- 590	646	1 716	2 076	2 237	2 757
Central America	25 181	34 673	29 676	8 101	11 359	2 889
Belize	109	140	179	1	1	3
Costa Rica	1 469	1 896	2 021	98	263	6
El Salvador	241	1 509	784	- 26	100	65
Guatemala	592	745	838	40	25	16
Honduras	669	816	877	1	1	2
Mexico	19 316	27 278	21 950	5 758	8 256	686
Nicaragua	287	382	626	21^a	9^a	16^a
Panama	2 498	1 907	2 402	2 209^a	2 704^a	2 095^a
Caribbean	24 289	21 495	22 960	18 518	25 475	25 951
Anguilla	143	120	90	..	..	..
Antigua and Barbuda	361	358	255	..	..	..
Aruba	572	- 91	187	- 13	30	3
Bahamas	706	746	700	..	..	..
Barbados	105	233	133^a	14	197	73^a
British Virgin Islands	6 759^a	4 609^a	3 000^a	11 990^a	22 591^a	22 000^a
Cayman Islands	11 539^a	11 012^a	10 920^a	6 064^a	2 557^a	3 500^a
Cuba	26^a	30^a	36^a	- 2^a	..	..
Dominica	29	61	60	..	..	..
Dominican Republic	1 528	1 579	2 885	- 61^a	- 17^a	- 19^a
Grenada	96	190	168	..	..	..
Haiti	160	75	30	..	..	..
Jamaica	882	867	789^a	85	115	102^a
Montserrat	2	6	2	..	..	..
Netherlands Antilles	- 22	234	266	57	- 3	15
Saint Kitts and Nevis	115	164	94	..	..	..
Saint Lucia	238	259	110	..	..	..
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109	117	96	..	..	..
Trinidad and Tobago	883	830	3 047^a	370	-	271^a
Turks and Caicos Islands	58	97	92	14	4	5
Asia and Oceania	283 402	332 682	388 709	144 492	223 130	220 194
Asia	282 127	331 425	387 828	144 448	223 081	220 139
West Asia	67 633	77 609	90 255	23 977	48 342	33 684
Bahrain	2 915	1 756	1 794	980	1 669	1 620
Iraq	383	485	488^a	305	149^a	181^a
Jordan	3 268	1 950	1 954	- 138	48	13
Kuwait	122	123	56	8 240	10 156	8 521
Lebanon	2 675	2 731	3 606	875	848	987
Oman	1 688	3 125	2 928	275	243	329
Palestinian territory	19	28	29^a	129	44	45^a
Qatar	3 500^a	4 700^a	6 700^a	127^a	5 263^a	2 400^a
Saudi Arabia	18 293	24 318	38 223	1 257^a	13 139^a	1 080^a
Syrian Arab Republic	659	1 242	2 116^a	55^a	55^a	57^a
Turkey	20 185	22 046	18 198	924	2 106	2 585
United Arab Emirates	12 806	14 187	13 700^a	10 892	14 568	15 800^a
Yemen	1 121	917	463^a	56^a	54^a	66^a
South, East and South-East Asia	214 495	253 816	297 573	120 470	174 739	186 455
East Asia	131 769	150 353	186 982	82 301	111 176	136 156
China	72 715	83 521	108 312	21 160	22 469	52 150
Hong Kong, China	45 054	54 365	63 003	44 979	61 119	59 920
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	- 105^a	67^a	44^a	..	..	..
Korea, Republic of	4 881	2 628	7 603	8 127	15 620	12 795
Macao, China	1 608	1 642	1 905^a	636	861	998^a
Mongolia	191	360	683	..	..	..
Taiwan Province of China	7 424	7 769	5 432	7 399	11 107	10 293
South Asia	27 758	33 982	50 669	14 871	17 758	18 182
Afghanistan	238	243	300	..	..	..
Bangladesh	793	666	1 086	4	21	9
Bhutan	6	73	30	..	..	..
India	20 336	25 127	41 554	14 344	17 281	17 685
Iran, Islamic Republic of	1 626	1 658	1 492	386^a	302^a	380^a
Maldives	14	15	15	..	..	..
Nepal	- 7	6	1	..	..	..
Pakistan	4 273	5 590	5 438	109	99	46
Sri Lanka	480	603	752	29	55	62
South-East Asia	54 967	69 482	59 923	23 298	45 805	32 117
Brunei Darussalam	434	260	239	18	37^a	34^a
Cambodia	483	867	815	12	5	24
Indonesia	4 914	6 928	7 919	2 726	4 675	5 900
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	187	324	228	..	..	..
Malaysia	6 060	8 401	8 053	6 084	11 087	14 059
Myanmar	428	258	283^a	..	..	..
Philippines	2 921	2 916	1 520	103	3 536	237
Singapore	27 680	31 550	22 725	13 298	24 458	8 928
Thailand	9 460	11 238	10 091	972	1 857	2 835
Timor-Leste	-^a	-^a	-^a	..	..	..
Viet Nam	2 400	6 739	8 050	85	150	100^a
Oceania	1 275	1 258	881	44	49	55
Cook Islands	3^a	-^a	1^a	-^a	1^a	-^a
Fiji	374	289^a	274^a	1	6^a	6^a
French Polynesia	31	58	32^a	10	14	13^a
Kiribati	13^a	- 8^a	2^a	..	..	..
Marshall Islands	6^a	12^a	6^a	- 8^a	..	..
Micronesia, Federated States of	1^a	17^a	6^a	..	..	..
Nauru	-	1^a	-^a	..	..	..
New Caledonia	749	657	467^a	31	7	23^a
Niue	..	..	..	- 2^a	2^a	..
Palau	1^a	3^a	2^a	..	..	..
Papua New Guinea	-7	96	- 30	1	8	-
Samoa	12	3	6^a	2	-	-^a
Solomon Islands	34	67	76	7	10	12
Tonga	10	28	6	2	2	2
Tuvalu	5^a	-^a	2^a	..	..	..
Vanuatu	44	34	34	1	1	- 1
Wallis and Futuna Islands	-^a	1^a	..	..	..	..
South-East Europe and CIS	54 548	90 866	114 361	23 724	51 505	58 496
South-East Europe	9 891	12 792	10 880	396	1 380	634
Albania	324	658	956	11	15	92
Bosnia and Herzegovina	718	2 115	1 009	4	24	-
Croatia	3 457	4 982	4 383	263	246	170
Montenegro	618	876	939	33	157	108
Serbia	4 350	3 462	2 994	85	938	277
The FYR of Macedonia	424	699	598	-	- 1	- 14
CIS	44 657	78 074	103 481	23 328	50 125	57 862
Armenia	453	661	1 132	3	- 3	10
Azerbaijan	- 601	- 4 817	11	705	286	556
Belarus	354	1 785	2 158	3	15	9
Georgia	1 170	1 750	1 564	- 16	75	41
Kazakhstan	6 278	11 126	14 543	- 385	3 151	3 812
Kyrgyzstan	182	208	233	-	-	-
Moldova, Republic of	251	493	713	- 1	12	33
Russian Federation	29 701	55 073	70 320	23 151	45 916	52 390
Tajikistan	339	360	376	..	..	..
Turkmenistan	731^a	804^a	820^a	..	..	..
Ukraine	5 604	9 891	10 693	- 133	673	1 010
Uzbekistan	195^a	739^a	918^a	..	..	..
Memorandum
All developing economies, excluding China	361 049	445 823	512 421	194 122	263 017	240 560
Developing economies and transition economies	488 312	620 210	735 095	239 006	336 991	351 206
Least developed countries (LDCs) ^b	22 714	25 737	33 098	670	1 521	3 889
Major petroleum exporters^c	77 747	92 095	126 371	27 848	58 211	48 581
Major exporters of manufactures ^d	254 855	311 425	353 498	151 351	185 964	202 630
EU-15, 1995^e	524 324	766 699	433 681	678 500	1 175 380	824 305
EU-25, 2005^f	571 271	820 672	480 943	696 595	1 191 589	836 573

Source: UNCTAD, FDI/TNC database

^a Estimates.

^b Least developed countries include: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Yemen and Zambia.

^c Major petroleum exporters countries include: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Congo, Gabon, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Yemen.

^d Major exporters of manufactures include: Brazil, China, Hong Kong (China), India, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan Province of China, Thailand and Turkey.

^e EU-15, 1995 include: Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

f EU-25, 2005 include: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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