EU's net investment position -33% in 2020 - Products Eurostat News - Eurostat - European Commission

Net foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks held in the rest of the world by investors resident in the EU amounted to €8 589 billion (bn) at the end of 2020, down by 5% compared with the end of 2019. Meanwhile, investment stocks held by the rest of the world in the EU increased to €7 317 bn at the end of 2020 (+2%). Consequently, the EUˈs net investment position vis-à-vis the rest of the world was lower than a year earlier i.e. €1 272 bn at the end of 2020 compared with €1 907 bn at the end of 2019 (-€635 million, -33%).

This information comes from data on foreign direct investments published by Eurostat today.

Source dataset: bop_fdi6_pos

Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) resident in the EU continued to play a significant role in FDI, albeit a less prominent one than a year earlier. At the end of 2020 they accounted for 40% of the total EU FDI stocks held abroad and for 49% of the FDI stocks held by the rest of the world in the EU, compared with 50% and 59% respectively in 2019.

USA and the UK: by far the main FDI partners

At the end of 2020, the United States absorbed 24% of the total FDI stocks held by the EU in the rest of the world (€2 090 bn), closely followed by the United Kingdom (€1 869 bn, 22%). They were far ahead of Switzerland (€922 bn, 11%), Canada (€297 bn, 3%), Russia (€279 bn, 3%), Brazil (€263 bn, 3%) and Singapore (€256 bn, 3%).

Source dataset: bop_fdi6_pos

In the reverse direction, the United States’ direct investors accounted for almost a third (€2 317 bn, 32%) of the total FDI stocks held by the rest of the world in the EU at the end of 2020, followed by the United Kingdom (€1 247 bn, 17%). They were followed by those from Switzerland (€691 bn, 9%), Bermuda (€458 bn, 6%), Jersey (€277 bn, 4%), Canada (€241 bn, 3%), Japan (€222 bn, 3%) and the Cayman Islands (€185 bn, 3%).

Source dataset: bop_fdi6_pos

For more information:

These data are subject to revision.
FDI stocks help to quantify the impact of globalisation and measure longstanding economic links between countries (according to immediate counterpart criteria). They provide an indication of the relative importance of a country’s economic presence abroad, or that of foreign partners in the reporting entity, measured in terms of FDI capital.
Eurostat website section dedicated to foreign direct investment statistics
Eurostat database on balance of payments and EU direct investments
Eurostat Statistics Explained article on FDI statistics methodology

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