Vietnam Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP)
Money invested into Vietnamese businesses from abroad each year (foreign direct investment), as a share of GDP.
4.3%
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1985 to 2025
Source: World Bank BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS · % of GDP, annual.
Vietnam Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Vietnam, the foreign direct investment was unchanged in 2025, from 4.2% in 2024.
It is the highest reading since 2022.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 4.2% in 2024 to 4.6% in 2020.
Its average since 1985 is 4.7%, and the latest reading is below that.
Vietnam is 5th of 34 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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