Foreign Direct Investment

Major official sources for Foreign Direct Investment:
See the IMF and OECD’s document on How Countries Measure FDI.

UNCTAD: Foreign Direct Investment Database

• FDI On-line (also called World Investment Directory Online)
  “Detailed statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) and operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) in selected countries”
• FDI Statistics (from the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development)
  Updates, forecasts, analysis of the data and other activities related to FDI
• World Investment Report
  The numbers in context: FDI flows along with policy analysis

IMF

• Balance of Payment Statistics Yearbook
  HF 1014 .I6. The most recent year is in Reference, the others are in the general collection.
• International Financial Statistics Yearbook
  HG 3881 .I627 The most recent year is in Reference, the others are in the general collection. The online subscription version linked above is available to the Carleton community only.

OECD

• OECD in Figures
  Contains a table on Direct Investment flows.
• OECD Factbook
  Includes a table on FDI flows and stocks.
• Investment Statistics and Analysis
  Use the top navigation to find statistics and other publications from the OECD on this topic.
• International Direct Investment Database
  You may see the OECD International Direct Investment Database cited in the literature. Carleton College does not subscribe to this database. Contact your librarian if the information you need is not included in the sources above.

Eurostat

• European Union Direct Investments
  A series of tables with downloadable data can be found if you follow this path: Data (tab) > Balance of Payments > European Union Direct Investments.

See also Loco Monitor
OCO Consulting is a private research company that tracks FDI. Some of the information on this site is available to the public under the “FDI by Country” and “FDI by Company” sections. See also the FDI Quarerly Report. Carleton does not subscribe to the restricted content.
When using this site, be sure to understand their data collection methodology and the differences in the ways that FDI is defined by OCO as distinct from the official sources of data.