Italy
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 |
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| Economic Data | Year | Amount | Year | Amount | |
| Host Country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ($M USD) | 2016 | $1.852 trillion | 2015 | $1.821 trillion | www.worldbank.org/en/country |
| Foreign Direct Investment | Host Country Statistical Source | USG or International Statistical Source | USG or International Source of Data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other |
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| U.S. FDI in partner country ($M USD, stock positions) | 2014 | $7.188 | 2015 | $22.499 billion | BEA data available at http://bea.gov/international/direct_investment_ multinational_companies_comprehensive_data.htm |
| Host country’s FDI in the United States ($M USD, stock positions) | 2014 | $29.915 | 2015 | $28.648 billion | BEA data available at http://bea.gov/international/direct_investment_ multinational_companies_comprehensive_data.htm |
| Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP | 2014 | 24.7% | 2015 | 18.5% | UNCTAD Data |
Table 3: Sources and Destination of FDI
Italian GDP data are taken from Istat, the official statistics agency. ISTAT publishes preliminary year end GDP data in early February and issues revised data in early March. Italian FDI data are from the Bank of Italy and are the latest available; new data are released in May.
| Direct Investment from/in Counterpart Economy Data – 2015 Data (Most Recent Available) | |||||
| From Top Five Sources/To Top Five Destinations (US Dollars, Millions) | |||||
| Inward Direct Investment | Outward Direct Investment | ||||
| Total Inward | 337,083 | 100% | Total Outward | 467,300 | 100% |
| Luxembourg | 70,401 | 20.9% | Netherlands | 66,257 | 14.2% |
| Netherlands | 68,319 | 20.3% | Germany | 38,537 | 8.2% |
| France | 59,058 | 17.5% | Spain | 37,772 | 8.1% |
| United Kingdom | 39,444 | 11.7% | United States | 31,610 | 6.8% |
| Germany | 23,765 | 7.1% | Austria | 28,679 | 6.1% |
| “0” reflects amounts rounded to +/- USD 500,000. | |||||
Table 4: Sources of Portfolio Investment
The statistics above show Italy’s largest investment partners to be within the European Union and the United States. This is consistent with Italy being fully integrated with its EU partners and the United States.
| Portfolio Investment Assets | ||||||||
| Top Five Partners (Millions, US Dollars) 2015 Data (Most Recent Available) | ||||||||
| Total | Equity Securities | Total Debt Securities | ||||||
| All Countries | 1,210,087 | 100% | All Countries | 699,517 | 100% | All Countries | 510,570 | 100% |
| Luxembourg | 474,274 | 39.2% | Luxembourg | 447,542 | 64.0% | France | 81,135 | 15.9% |
| France | 141,637 | 11.7% | Ireland | 75,530 | 10.8% | Spain | 73,601 | 14.4% |
| Ireland | 93,036 | 7.7% | France | 60,502 | 8.6% | Germany | 56,968 | 11.1% |
| United States | 84,124 | 7.0% | United Kingdom | 30,612 | 4.4% | United States | 55,770 | 10.1% |
| Spain | 76,788 | 6.4% | United States | 28,534 | 4.1% | Netherlands | 41,329 | 8.1% |
The statistics above show Italy’s largest investment partners to be within the European Union and the United States. This is consistent with Italy being fully integrated with its EU partners and the United States.