Data · Trade & foreign investment
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$): Vietnam, 1970–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 21.99 USD billion
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in the reporting economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1970 to 2025 (56 years of data). It moved from 0.00 to 21.99 USD billion. The highest value was 21.99 in 2025 and the lowest -0.00 in 1972. 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 (USD billion) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 21.99 |
| 2024 | 20.17 |
| 2023 | 18.50 |
| 2022 | 17.90 |
| 2021 | 15.66 |
| 2020 | 15.80 |
| 2019 | 16.12 |
| 2018 | 15.50 |
| 2017 | 14.10 |
| 2016 | 12.60 |
| 2015 | 11.80 |
| 2014 | 9.20 |
| 2013 | 8.90 |
| 2012 | 8.37 |
| 2011 | 7.43 |
| 2010 | 8.00 |
| 2009 | 7.60 |
| 2008 | 9.58 |
| 2007 | 6.70 |
| 2006 | 2.40 |
| 2005 | 1.95 |
| 2004 | 1.61 |
| 2003 | 1.45 |
| 2002 | 1.40 |
| 2001 | 1.30 |
| 2000 | 1.30 |
| 1999 | 1.41 |
| 1998 | 1.67 |
| 1997 | 2.22 |
| 1996 | 2.40 |
| 1995 | 1.78 |
| 1994 | 1.94 |
| 1993 | 0.93 |
| 1992 | 0.47 |
| 1991 | 0.38 |
| 1990 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 0.00 |
| 1988 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 0.00 |
| 1985 | -0.00 |
| 1984 | 0.00 |
| 1983 | 0.00 |
| 1982 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 0.00 |
| 1979 | -0.00 |
| 1978 | 0.00 |
| 1977 | -0.00 |
| 1976 | -0.00 |
| 1975 | 0.00 |
| 1974 | 0.00 |
| 1973 | 0.00 |
| 1972 | -0.00 |
| 1971 | 0.00 |
| 1970 | 0.00 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 21.99 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 18.53 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 22.70 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 21.62 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 8.12 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 159.09 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 5.10 |
| Laos | 2025 | 1.40 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 1.07 |
| China | 2025 | 79.98 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?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_cd_wd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.