Inbound foreign investment flows - Lowy Institute Southeast Asia Influence Index

Inbound foreign investment flows

Ten-year cumulative flow of foreign capital investment into a Southeast Asian country from a partner country

Type: Indicator
Weighting: 1.5x
Source: fDi Markets

Country

Edition

Inbound foreign investment flows

Which partner has the highest inbound foreign investment flows to Southeast Asia?

1 China 100.0

26.9% 21.0% $227B 2015–24
2 United States 73.1

19.7% 15.4% $166B 2015–24
3 Japan 49.4

13.3% 10.4% $112B 2015–24
4 South Korea 39.6

10.7% 8.3% $89.9B 2015–24
5 Singapore 32.1

8.6% 6.8% $73.0B 2015–24
6 Thailand 18.4

4.9% 3.9% $41.8B 2015–24
7 Malaysia 13.8

3.7% 2.9% $31.3B 2015–24
8 United Kingdom 11.2

3.0% 2.4% $25.5B 2015–24
9 France 10.0

2.7% 2.1% $22.7B 2015–24
10 Australia 6.2

1.7% 1.3% $14.1B 2015–24
11 Philippines 5.0

1.3% 1.0% $11.3B 2015–24
12 Russia 4.1

1.1% 0.9% $9.4B 2015–24
13 India 3.9

1.1% 0.8% $8.9B 2015–24
14 Vietnam 2.2

0.6% 0.5% $5.0B 2015–24
15 Canada 1.5

0.4% 0.3% $3.3B 2015–24
16 Indonesia 0.8

0.2% 0.2% $1.8B 2015–24
17 Cambodia 0.2

0.1% 0.0% $526M 2015–24
18 Laos 0.1

0.0% 0.0% $283M 2015–24
19 Myanmar 0.1

0.0% 0.0% $129M 2015–24
20 Brunei 0.0

0.0% 0.0% $38.3M 2015–24
21 Timor-Leste 0.0

0.0% 0.0% $0 2015–24

Intra-regional

Southeast Asian countries’ influence on each other

Extra-regional

Partners exerting influence from outside the region