Foreign Investment in UK
(asked on 18th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the performance of foreign direct investment in the UK compared to that of the other G7 nations.
This question was answered on 2nd December 2025
Data published by the United Nations Trade and Development Data Hub show that at the end of 2024 the UK ranked second in the G7 (behind the United States) for levels of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) stock.
Levels of inward FDI stock for G7 nations at the end of 2024 | |||
G7 Rank | G7 Nations | USD$ billion | Global Rank |
1 | United States | 15,567 | 1 |
2 | United Kingdom | 3,254 | 3 |
3 | Canada | 1,819 | 7 |
4 | Germany | 1,209 | 8 |
5 | France | 1,049 | 12 |
6 | Italy | 494 | 20 |
7 | Japan | 220 | 35 |