Selected OECD Countries: Foreign Direct Investment

Table 20 Selected OECD Countries: Foreign Direct Investment
Billion US $
	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Outflows
United States	12.72	30.98	32.70	42.65	77.25	53.08	96.90
Australia	1.89	0.26	3.11	0.11	1.09	5.91	3.49
Canada^b	3.86	4.73	5.65	3.69	5.81	7.44	5.74
Japan^b	6.45	48.02	30.73	17.22	13.71	17.94	22.26
European Union
Finland	0.35	3.26	1.05	-0.75	1.41	4.30	1.52
France^b	2.23	26.92	20.50	19.10	12.17	10.90	10.70
Germany^c	5.14	23.95	23.68	19.53	15.33	16.66	34.89
Italy^b	1.82	7.61	7.33	5.95	7.23	5.11	5.73
Netherlands	2.68	15.27	13.59	14.28	10.71	11.91	12.43
Spain^b	0.25	2.84	3.57	1.24	2.65	4.23	3.53
Sweden	1.78	14.64	7.02	0.39	1.39	6.61	10.37
United Kingdom	10.82	18.64	15.97	19.04	25.73	28.11	37.86
Inflows
United States	20.49	48.42	22.80	18.89	43.53	49.90	74.70
Australia	2.10	7.06	4.90	4.91	3.38	3.79	6.04
Canada^b	1.30	7.85	2.75	4.46	4.98	7.28	10.72
Japan^b	0.64	1.75	1.37	2.73	0.86	0.89	0.04
European Union
Finland	0.11	0.79	-0.25	0.41	0.87	1.58	0.92
France^b	2.21	9.04	11.07	15.93	12.14	10.96	13.00
Germany^c	0.55	2.49	4.09	2.66	1.78	0.69	9.01
Italy^b	1.07	6.34	2.48	3.21	3.75	2.24	4.82
Netherlands	1.41	12.15	6.52	7.69	6.60	4.74	9.85
Spain^b	1.94	13.68	10.42	8.24	8.07	9.78	6.94
Sweden	0.40	1.97	6.33	-0.13	3.69	6.33	13.67
United Kingdom	5.78	32.89	15.97	14.94	14.54	11.07	29.91

^a Based on official national balance of payments statistics, converted to dollars at the daily average exchange rate.
^b Reinvested earnings are not included in national statistics.
^c Western area only prior to 1991; reinvested earnings are included starting in 1990.