FDI from Africa in the U.S. 2021

In 2021, the African foreign direct investments in the United States amounted to approximately 10.33 billion U.S. dollars. The total foreign direct investments in the U.S. were valued at approximately 4.98 trillion U.S. dollars in that year.

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

Characteristic	FDI in billion U.S. dollars
2021	10.33
2020	9.86
2019	9.01
2018	5.05
2017	4.84
2016	4.17
2015	4.31
2014	1.69
2013	1.64
2012	3.76
2011	3.3
2010	2.27
2009	1.23
2008	1.82
2007	1.03
2006	1.98
2005	2.34
2004	1.86
2003	2.2
2002	2.23
2001	2.35
2000	2.7

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Release date

September 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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