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Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$)

Annual data on foreign direct investment net outflows (current US$) for all countries, sourced from IMF, UNCTAD, and official national sources, provided by the World Bank.

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Economics & social scienceFree to access

Key facts

InstitutionWorld Bank
CoverageAll countries and economies
Time spanSee official page
ScaleSee official page
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
AccessWorld Bank API and DataBank

Contents & fields

The dataset contains annual time series of foreign direct investment net outflows in current US dollars for all countries. No field-level description is publicly available on the source page.

Research uses

Suitable for studies on international capital flows, economic globalization, and cross-border investment decisions.

Information comes from the source page. Please check that page for current details and terms.

Keywords

foreign direct investmentnet outflowsbalance of paymentsWorld Bankcurrent US$

Why this is hard to get on your own

When obtaining cross-border direct investment outflow data, one often needs to integrate multiple sources and carefully check indicator definitions and units.

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