Data · Trade & foreign investment
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP): Vietnam, 1985–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 4.27 % GDP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Foreign direct investment is the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net inflows (new investment inflows less disinvestment) in the reporting economy from foreign investors, and is divided by GDP.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1985 to 2025 (41 years of data). It moved from -0.00 to 4.27 % GDP. The highest value was 11.94 in 1994 and the lowest -0.00 in 1985. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (% GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.27 |
| 2024 | 4.23 |
| 2023 | 4.26 |
| 2022 | 4.33 |
| 2021 | 4.27 |
| 2020 | 4.56 |
| 2019 | 4.82 |
| 2018 | 5.00 |
| 2017 | 5.01 |
| 2016 | 4.90 |
| 2015 | 4.93 |
| 2014 | 3.94 |
| 2013 | 4.16 |
| 2012 | 4.28 |
| 2011 | 4.30 |
| 2010 | 5.43 |
| 2009 | 7.17 |
| 2008 | 9.66 |
| 2007 | 8.65 |
| 2006 | 3.62 |
| 2005 | 3.39 |
| 2004 | 3.54 |
| 2003 | 3.67 |
| 2002 | 3.99 |
| 2001 | 3.98 |
| 2000 | 4.16 |
| 1999 | 4.92 |
| 1998 | 6.14 |
| 1997 | 8.27 |
| 1996 | 9.71 |
| 1995 | 8.59 |
| 1994 | 11.94 |
| 1993 | 7.03 |
| 1992 | 4.80 |
| 1991 | 3.90 |
| 1990 | 2.78 |
| 1989 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 0.00 |
| 1985 | -0.00 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 4.27 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 3.21 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 1.57 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 4.58 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 1.67 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 26.34 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 9.95 |
| Laos | 2025 | 7.68 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 1.31 |
| China | 2025 | 0.41 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name bx_klt_dinv_wd_gd_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.