Outward flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Russia 2011-2021

Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – also known as Outward Direct Investment, which in simplified terms measures the value of domestic companies investing in foreign countries – has seen about a tenfold growth from 2020 to 2021. The highest mark over the given timeframe was recorded in 2013 at 70.69 billion U.S. dollars and the lowest in 2020 at 6.78 billion U.S. dollars.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Russia

  The total value of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in Russia dropped by roughly 10 percent, measuring at nearly 189 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. As for the inward FDI stock, which is the net value of a direct investment in an economy – namely, the sum of foreign investors’ equity and the total value of loans received by the resident companies in that economy – kept a positively developing trend, exceeding 520 billion U.S. dollars in 2021.

Global overview

  From a global perspective, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had a significant effect on the FDI market worldwide. Namely both global FDI inflows and outflows decreased in 2020 compared to 2019. The former experienced over a 30 percent drop, while the latter saw a roughly 40 percent reduction year-over-year. While Japan and Germany were the two leading countries by FDI outflows in 2019, China took the leading position over the following year, reporting nearly 133 billion U.S. dollars in FDI outflows.