What we count
Cross-border investment through which an investor gains a lasting interest in an enterprise in another economy.
Foreign direct investment this year
Foreign direct investment worldwide so far this year, what the global FDI figure includes and how UNCTAD compiles it.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
$ 499,015,009,935personal remittances received this year
$ 276,484,018us obesity-related healthcare costs today
$ 322,191,781money spent on video games today
What lies behind this number
Cross-border investment through which an investor gains a lasting interest in an enterprise in another economy.
How the source derives it
UNCTAD compiles global FDI from national balance-of-payments statistics and identifies flows through financial hubs.
What one number cannot show
A high total does not automatically mean more new factories or jobs; some flows are financial routing.
Source value
The calculation uses the annual value published by UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026 for 2025. It is the latest value published by this source.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the year.
Annual value1,600,000,000,000USD
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026
How the number is calculated
We distribute the latest published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value1,600,000,000,0002025 · USD
Average per day4,380,651,211even annual distribution
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026 reports the latest published value used by the calculation for 2025.
Elapsed share
We calculate the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the year. The counter restarts at the beginning of the next calendar year.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026 and refers to 2025. We use it because it is the latest value published by this source. UNCTAD compiles global FDI from national balance-of-payments statistics and identifies flows through financial hubs.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026
- Data period
- 2025
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation