This article gives an overview of EU Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics for annual flows, stocks at year-end and annual income, for the period 1997-20021. EU FDI flows contracted in 2002 for the second consecutive year, after the strong expansion during the period 1997-2000. In 2002, the decrease in EU inward FDI flows from extra-EU countries (-19%) was much lower than for EU outward …
This article gives an overview of EU Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics for annual flows, stocks at year-end and annual income, for the period 1998-2003. The data presented here incorporate a major revision for the period 1999-20031. EU FDI outflows remained stable in 2003 with respect to 2002, while EU FDI inflows decreased (-19%). EU income earned from FDI in extra-EU countries also d…