Costa Rica
13. Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment Statistics
| 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) | 2019 | $61,801 | 2019 | $61,801 | www.worldbank.org/en/country |
| Foreign Direct Investment | Host Country Statistical source* | USG or international statistical source | USG or international Source of data: BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other | ||
| U.S. FDI in partner country ($M USD, stock positions) | 2020 | $25,682 | 2019 | $1,521 | BEA data available at https://apps.bea.gov/ international/factsheet/ |
| Host country’s FDI in the United States ($M USD, stock positions) | 2020 | $124 | 2019 | $-199 | BEA data available at https://www.bea.gov/international/ direct-investment-and-multinational- enterprises-comprehensive-data |
| Total inbound FDI as % host GDP | 2019 | 4.3% | 2019 | 4.1% | UNCTAD data available at https://stats.unctad.org/handbook/ EconomicTrends/Fdi.html |
| * Source for Host Country Data: Costa Rica’s Central Bank BCCR is the source for GDP and FDI statistics. Year-end data is published March 31 of the following year. | |||||
| 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 | 43,564 | 100% | Total Outward | 3,446 | 100% |
| United States | 24,543 | 56.3% | Nicaragua | 1,039 | 30.2% |
| Spain | 2,709 | 6.2% | Guatemala | ||
| Mexico | 2,124 | 4.9% | Panama | 812 | 23.6% |
| The Netherlands | 1,724 | 4.0% | United States | 128 | 3.7% |
| Colombia | 1,606 | 3.7% | Colombia | 79 | 2.3% |
| “0” reflects amounts rounded to +/- USD 500,000. | |||||
| Costa Rica’s open and globally integrated economy receives FDI principally from the United States followed by Europe and Latin America. Costa Rica’s outward FDI is more regionally focused on its neighbors Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama, with the United States and Colombia following. The source of this information on direct investment positions is the IMF’s Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) site (http://data.imf.org/CDIS). | |||||
| Portfolio Investment Assets | ||||||||
| Top Five Partners (Millions, current US Dollars) | ||||||||
| Total | Equity Securities | Total Debt Securities | ||||||
| All Countries | 3,026 | 100% | All Countries | 1,776 | 100% | All Countries | 1,249 | 100% |
| United States | 1,729 | 57% | United States | 871 | 49% | United States | 859 | 69% |
| Luxembourg | 386 | 13% | Luxembourg | 381 | 21% | UK | 102 | 8% |
| Ireland | 367 | 12% | Ireland | 365 | 21% | Australia | 44 | 4% |
| Germany | 168 | 6% | Germany | 140 | 8% | Germany | 27 | 2% |
| U.K. | 102 | 3% | Cayman Islands | 8 | 0% | Honduras | 22 | 2% |
| The source of this information is the IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS), June 2020. https://data.imf.org/?sk=B981B4E3-4E58-467E-9B90-9DE0C3367363&sId=1481577785817 | ||||||||