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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) ($M USD)	2020	MXN 23,122 billion	2019	USD 18,465 billion	https://www.inegi.org.mx/ https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO
Foreign Direct Investment	Host Country Statistical source*		USG or international statistical source		USG or international Source of data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other
U.S. FDI in partner country ($billion USD, stock positions)	N/A	N/A	2019	USD 100.9 billion	BEA data available at https://apps.bea.gov/ international/factsheet/
Host country’s FDI in the United States ($M USD, stock positions)	N/A	N/A	2019	USD 21.5 billion	BEA data available at https://www.bea.gov/international/ direct-investment-and-multinational- enterprises-comprehensive-data
Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP	2020	2.7%	2019	2.6%	https://www.inegi.org.mx/ UNCTAD data available at https://stats.unctad.org/handbook/ EconomicTrends/Fdi.html

Table 3: Sources and Destination of FDI
*Direct Investment from/in Counterpart Economy Data 2019**
From Top Five Sources/To Top Five Destinations (US Dollars, Millions)
Inward Direct Investment			Outward Direct Investment
Total Inward	567,747	100%	Total Outward	172,419	100%
United States	190,505	34%	United States	74,854	43%
Netherlands	115,224	20%	Netherlands	25,219	15%
Spain	96,146	17%	Spain	13,171	8%
Canada	39,025	7%	United Kingdom	12,729	7%
United Kingdom	23,648	4%	Brazil	8,064	5%
“0” reflects amounts rounded to +/- USD 500,000.

* data from the IMF’s Coordinated Direct Investment Survey

Table 4: Sources of Portfolio Investment
Portfolio Investment Assets, as of June 2020*
Top Five Partners (Millions, current US Dollars)
Total			Equity Securities			Total Debt Securities
All Countries	61,361	100%	All Countries	42,877	100%	All Countries	18,484	100%
United States	19,356	32%	Ireland	8,256	19%	United States	12,829	69%
Ireland	8,263	13%	United States	6,528	15	Brazil	1,506	8%
Brazil	1,514	2%	Luxembourg	781	2%	Chile	65	0.4%
Luxembourg	793	0.5%	Spain	266	0.6%	Netherlands	62	0.3%
United Kingdom	109	0.2%	China	91	0.2%	United Kingdom	55	0.3%

* data from the IMF’s Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS)