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13. Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment Statistics

Table 2: Key Macroeconomic Data, U.S. FDI in Host Country/Economy

	Host Country Statistical Source		USG or International Statistical Source		USG or International Source of Data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other
Economic Data	Year	Amount	Year	Amount
Host Country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ($M USD )	2016	$1.26 trillion	2014	$1.21 trillion	www.worldbank.org/en/country
Foreign Direct Investment	Host Country Statistical Source		USG or International Statistical Source		USG or International Source of Data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other
U.S. FDI in partner country ($M USD , stock positions)	2016	$146.26 billion	2015	$165.3 billion	BEA data available at http://bea.gov/international/direct_ investment_multinational_ companies_comprehensive_data.htm
Host country’s FDI in the United States ($M USD , stock positions)	2016	$89.18 billion	2015	$46.9 billion	BEA data available at http://bea.gov/international/direct_ investment_multinational_ companies_comprehensive_data.htm
Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP	2016	12%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Table 3: Sources and Destination of FDI

Direct Investment from/in Counterpart Economy Data
From Top Five Sources/To Top Five Destinations (US Dollars, Billions)
Inward Direct Investment			Outward Direct Investment
Total Inward	576.0	100%	Total Outward	401.5	100%
USA	141.1	24.5%	USA	86.0	21.4%
Japan	65.8	11.4%	UK	52.9	13.2%
UK	49.1	8.5%	New Zealand	48.2	12.0%
Netherlands	36.4	6.3%	Singapore	14.3	3.6%
China	30.3	5.3%	Papua New Guinea	11.4	2.8%
“0” reflects amounts rounded to +/- USD 500,000.

Table 4: Sources of Portfolio Investment

Portfolio Investment Assets
Top Five Partners (Millions, US Dollars)
Total			Equity Securities			Total Debt Securities
All Countries	629,400	100%	All Countries	400,624	100%	All Countries	228,776	100%
United States	274,074	43.5%	United States	189,082	47.2%	United States	84,991	37.2%
United Kingdom	48,636	7.7%	United Kingdom	35,541	8.9%	Germany	22,513	9.8%
Japan	31,356	5.0%	Cayman Islands	22,041	5.5%	United Kingdom	13,095	5.7%
Germany	30,469	4.8%	Japan	19,358	4.8%	Japan	11,999	5.2%
Cayman Islands	27,302	4.3%	Switzerland	10,351	2.6%	France	11,779	5.1%