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Kiribati vs Laos: Foreign direct investment, net outflows

Kiribati
16,114 BoP, current US$
in 2025
Laos
6,670 BoP, current US$
in 2022
Kiribati rank
152nd
Laos rank
153rd

Foreign direct investment, net outflows over time

  • Kiribati
  • Laos
-20.0M020.0M40.0M197920022025

How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 16,114 BoP, current US$ against 6,670 BoP, current US$ in Laos, a difference of 9,444 BoP, current US$.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 2.4 times Laos's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Kiribati ahead.

Globally, Kiribati ranks 152nd and Laos ranks 153rd of 191 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$)
Unit
BoP, current US$
Source
Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), note: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and D
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
238 places, 10,019 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed

Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in an 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. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world. Data are in current U.S. dollars.