Is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests?

UNCTAD 
FDI Statistics. Division on Investment and Enterprise



World Investment Report (publlished by UNCTAD)
The World Investment Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development.

Every issue of the Report has:

  • Analysis of the trends in FDI during the previous year, with especial emphasis on the development implications.
  • Ranking of the largest transnational corporations in the world.
  • In-depth analysis of a selected topic related to FDI.
  • Policy analysis and recommendations.
  • Statistical annex with data on FDI flows and stocks at the country level.

Access via CBS Library:
UNCTAD & United Nations Conference on Trade Development: World Investment Report.

Orbis Crossborder Investment

Orbis Crossborder Investment looks at globalisation via projects and deals and delivers information on the companies behind these investments – both listed and private companies. It tracks information daily and monitors announced, completed and cancelled/withdrawn projects and deals, as well as rumours and intentions.

The content falls into two parts

  1. Greenfield FDI projects – such as a company setting up (or expanding) a physical presence in a foreign market. Projects being tracked could be the opening, expansion, co-location and relocation of data centers, sales offices, shared service centers, headquarters, distribution centers, and research and development centers
     
  2. Crossborder M&A deals – defined as having more than 10% foreign ownership and including acquisitions, mergers, demergers, joint ventures and minority stakes.
     

The database covers details of the investor, acquirer or target companies including financial data, their structures and their people as well as data on project financials and estimates (when data is not available).

Data coverage: it contains data from 2013 until today and covers (2020) more than 120.000 projects (retail projects excluded), 100.000 M&A deals, 101.000 companies and 44.000 companies only with projects.

Tools
Orbis Crossborder Investment provides a set of tools allowing you to work more in detail with the data. Among the tools are Pivot analysis, Geographic heat map, Company footprint, League tables and Key trends. In the Help function, you can find a more detailed description of the tools.

A comprehensive help function is built into the database (click ? in the upper right corner) where you can find guidance on how to search for and export data.

You will also find a description of the sources used to collect data and a very useful glossary of terms.

You can export data to Excel.

EMIS Professional 

A good database to find FDI information about emerging economies.
Start your search by choosing a country (China) and then search for: FDI (in the upper search box). Limit e.g. your search results by language and document type (News, Reports, Companies or Statistics)

Statista

Statista is a statistics portal that provides statistics and other data on a wide range of topics and among other things you can find a lot of statistics on FDI - Foreign Direct Investments.

Search hint:
in the search box search for: FDI or "Foreign Direct Investment" and use the filter to limit your search by Regions, Countries & Territories, Industry, and more

Is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests?

  1. Looking for FDI data for specific countries, try out the national statistics
    example: Ministry of Commerce, China - http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/article/statistic/
  1. Columbia FDI Profiles, http://ccsi.columbia.edu/publications/test-fdi-profiles-page/
    Columbia FDI Profiles is a series of concise electronic publications on FDI data and policy developments, highlighting, in standardized format, current developments in FDI inflows and outflows at the country level and the policy context in which they take place.
  1. Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index
    Examines the overarching trends in FDI. Top 25 ranking looks at how political and economic changes will affect FDI inflows.
  1. US Foreign Direct Investment (inflows and outflows)
    From the BEA, based on filing information, it includes US Investment Abroad and Foreign Direst Investment in the US.

What is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country?

An investment into a foreign firm is considered an FDI if it establishes a lasting interest. A lasting interest is established when an investor obtains at least 10% of the voting power in a firm. The key to foreign direct investment is the element of control.

Is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country?

Foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to investments made by an individual or firm in one country in a business located in another country.

What is it called when a company invests in a country?

Foreign investment refers to the investment in domestic companies and assets of another country by a foreign investor. Large multinational corporations will seek new opportunities for economic growth by opening branches and expanding their investments in other countries.

What do you call to an individual or business from one nation invests in another?

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is where an individual or business from one nation, invests in another.