FDI in the U.S. 2000-2021

In the last 20 years, the amount of FDI in the United States has more than doubled. In 2000, FDI was 1.26 trillion U.S. dollars and in 2021 it had risen to 4.98 trillion U.S. dollars. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an investment from a company in one country into a company or entity located in another country. In this case direct foreign investment is shown for companies/entities located in the United States.

However, while the United States receives huge amounts of FDI each year, it also invests even greater amounts in other countries. For example, in 2020 the United States invested over 890 billon U.S. dollars in the United Kingdom and another 843.95 billion U.S. dollars in the Netherlands.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States from 2000 to 2021 (in trillion U.S. dollars, on a historical-cost basis)

Characteristic	FDI in trillion U.S. dollars
2021	4.98
2020	4.47
2019	4.4
2018	4.18
2017	3.95
2016	3.56
2015	3.35
2014	2.95
2013	2.73
2012	2.58
2011	2.43
2010	2.28
2009	2.07
2008	2.05
2007	1.99
2006	1.84
2005	1.63
2004	1.52
2003	1.4
2002	1.33
2001	1.34
2000	1.26

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Release date

July 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2000 to 2021

Supplementary notes

In accounting, historical cost is the original monetary value of an economic item. Historical cost is based on the stable measuring unit assumption. In some circumstances, assets and liabilities may be shown at their historical cost, as if there had been no change in value since the date of acquisition.
Direct investment implies that a person in one country has a lasting interest in, and a degree of influence over the management of, a business enterprise in another country. For the United States, in accordance with international guidelines, ownership or control of ten percent or more of an enterprise's voting securities, or the equivalent, is considered evidence of such a lasting interest or degree of influence over management. Thus, foreign direct investment in the United States is ownership or control, direct or indirect, by one foreign person of ten percent or more of the voting securities of an incorporated U.S. business enterprise or an equivalent interest in an unincorporated U.S. business enterprise.

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