Egypt Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
Money invested into Egyptian businesses from abroad each year (foreign direct investment), as a share of GDP.
4.2%
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1970 to 2025
Source: World Bank BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · % of GDP, annual.
Egypt Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Egypt, the foreign direct investment fell by 7.7pp in 2025, from 12.0% in 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.2% in 2021 to 12.0% in 2024.
Its average since 1970 is 2.3%, and the latest reading is above that.
Egypt is 6th of 36 countries in our Foreign Direct Investment by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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