Romania Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
Money invested into Romanian businesses from abroad each year (foreign direct investment), as a share of GDP.
2.2%
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1987 to 2025
Source: World Bank BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · % of GDP, annual.
Romania Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Romania, the foreign direct investment rose by 0.3pp in 2025, from 1.9% in 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.4% in 2020 to 4.1% in 2021.
Its average since 1987 is 2.7%, and the latest reading is below that.
Romania is 15th of 32 countries in our Foreign Direct Investment by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
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- 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 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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