Foreign Direct Investment 2023

Product Description

Investment of UK companies abroad (outward) and foreign companies into the UK (inward), including investment flows, positions and earnings, by country, component and industry.

The main source of information for UK foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics is the Annual FDI Survey; separate surveys are used to collect data on inward and outward FDI. This is combined with data from the Bank of England for all monetary financial institutions, such as banks, and other sources for property and public corporations in FDI. Survey responses are used to estimate or impute values for every company in the UK's inward and outward FDI populations.

The FDI estimates published within this bulletin cover the period 2015 to 2024; 2024 statistics are published for the first time, and values for 2023 may have been revised. There are no revisions to other years. All estimates are based on the Annual FDI Surveys. These are of superior quality to estimates from the Quarterly FDI Surveys, as they have larger sample sizes and are sent to companies to complete with information in their audited annual accounts, rather than management accounts.