Hong Kong Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
Long-term investment into the country by foreign companies and investors, such as building factories or buying a lasting stake in a business.
28.3%
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1970 to 2025
Source: World Bank BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · foreign direct investment, net inflows, % of GDP, annual.
Hong Kong Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hong Kong, the foreign direct investment fell by 2.5pp in 2025, from 30.8% in 2024.
It is the lowest reading since 2019.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 28.3% in 2025 to 37.2% in 2021.
Its average since 1970 is 16.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
Hong Kong is 1st of 40 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 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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