Saudi Arabia Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
Money invested into Saudi businesses from abroad each year (foreign direct investment), as a share of GDP.
2.6%
Matches the latest releaseNot refreshed recently, awaiting the next release
Explore the full Saudi Arabia economy16 live indicators on one dashboard, from growth and prices to jobs, trade and public finances. Checked hourly against official sources.Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
1970 to 2025
Source: World Bank BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · % of GDP, annual.
Saudi Arabia Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Saudi Arabia, the foreign direct investment rose by 0.9pp in 2025, from 1.7% in 2024.
It is the highest reading since 2021.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.2% in 2020 to 2.9% in 2021.
Its average since 1970 is 0.6%, and the latest reading is above that.
Saudi Arabia is 12th of 32 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 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
More Saudi Arabia indicators
Latest readings. Open any one for its full history.
Rankings
See every country we track, side by side.