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Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1973 to 2016 of Least developed countries: UN classification. No data until 1972. Number of actual observations by date: 44.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and Balance of Payments databases, World Bank, International Debt Statistics, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

Categories, topics:

Economy & Growth, Financial Sector, Climate Change

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:

1.602

Minimum:

0.165

jan 1, 1984

Maximum:

4.293

jan 1, 2004

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from the previous value

jan 1, 1973

0.416

+0.416

0.0%

jan 1, 1974

0.636

+0.22

52.92%

jan 1, 1975

0.376

-0.259

-40.79%

jan 1, 1976

0.487

+0.11

29.31%

jan 1, 1977

0.57

+0.083

17.15%

jan 1, 1978

0.797

+0.227

39.76%

jan 1, 1979

0.91

+0.113

14.17%

jan 1, 1980

0.547

-0.363

-39.9%

jan 1, 1981

0.521

-0.026

-4.8%

jan 1, 1982

0.578

+0.057

11.04%

jan 1, 1983

0.395

-0.183

-31.64%

jan 1, 1984

0.165

-0.23

-58.2%

jan 1, 1985

0.327

+0.162

98.04%

jan 1, 1986

0.447

+0.12

36.57%

jan 1, 1987

0.252

-0.195

-43.6%

jan 1, 1988

0.456

+0.204

80.81%

jan 1, 1989

0.639

+0.183

40.16%

jan 1, 1990

1.219

+0.581

90.96%

jan 1, 1991

0.283

-0.936

-76.76%

jan 1, 1992

0.585

+0.301

106.3%

jan 1, 1993

0.932

+0.347

59.4%

jan 1, 1994

1.33

+0.398

42.7%

jan 1, 1995

0.774

-0.556

-41.83%

jan 1, 1996

1.206

+0.433

55.92%

jan 1, 1997

1.282

+0.076

6.26%

jan 1, 1998

1.683

+0.401

31.26%

jan 1, 1999

2.473

+0.79

46.95%

jan 1, 2000

3.305

+0.832

33.64%

jan 1, 2001

1.999

-1.306

-39.51%

jan 1, 2002

3.664

+1.665

83.3%

jan 1, 2003

3.02

-0.644

-17.58%

jan 1, 2004

4.293

+1.273

42.14%

jan 1, 2005

3.379

-0.914

-21.29%

jan 1, 2006

2.036

-1.343

-39.74%

jan 1, 2007

2.52

+0.484

23.78%

jan 1, 2008

2.988

+0.468

18.56%

jan 1, 2009

3.083

+0.095

3.19%

jan 1, 2010

2.897

-0.187

-6.05%

jan 1, 2011

2.351

-0.546

-18.86%

jan 1, 2012

2.936

+0.585

24.9%

jan 1, 2013

2.376

-0.559

-19.06%

jan 1, 2014

2.436

+0.06

2.51%

jan 1, 2015

2.887

+0.451

18.5%

jan 1, 2016

4.035

+1.148