HomeReportsInvestment Climate Statements...Custom Report - 2651c4706d hide Investment Climate Statements Custom Report Excerpts: United Arab Emirates Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Sort by Country Sort by Section In this section / United Arab Emirates 13. Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment Statistics United Arab Emirates 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) ($B USD) 2018 $414.1 2018 $414.2 www.worldbank.org/en/country Foreign Direct Investment Host Country Statistical source USG or international statistical source USG or international Source of data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other U.S. FDI in partner country ($B USD, stock positions) N/A N/A 2018 $17.3 BEA data available at http://bea.gov/international/ direct_investment_multinational_ companies_comprehensive_data.htm Host country’s FDI in the United States ($B USD, stock positions) N/A N/A 2018 $5.2 BEA data available at http://bea.gov/international/ direct_investment_multinational_ companies_comprehensive_data.htm Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP N/A N/A 2019 38.3% UNCTAD data available at https://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/ World%20Investment%20Report/ Country-Fact-Sheets.aspx * Economic Report: Ministry of Economy Table 3: Sources and Destination of FDI Direct Investment from/in Counterpart Economy Data From Top Five Sources/To Top Five Destinations (US Dollars, Millions) Inward Direct Investment Outward Direct Investment Total Inward Amount 100% Total Outward Amount 100% United States 13,355 N/A N/A United Kingdom 6,066 N/A India 5,385 N/A Japan 564 N/A France 452 N/A “0” reflects amounts rounded to +/- USD $500,000. Data from the Annual Report of the Ministry of Economy (2019) indicates that the GDP for 2018 in real prices (base year 2010) were approximately USD $392.7 billion, while the estimated GDP at current prices was about USD $414.1 billion in 2018. According to the UAE Ministry of Economy’s Annual Economic Report 2019, the net annual FDI inflows to the UAE in 2018 were $10.4 billion, similar to 2017. The largest investors in the UAE were: India, United States, UK, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kuwait, France and the Netherlands. Table 4: Sources of Portfolio Investment Data not available. Edit Your Custom Report