Foreign direct investments as a share of GDP reached -0.372 % in 2016 in Mongolia, according to the National Statistical Office. This is 384 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, foreign direct investments as a share of GDP in Mongolia reached an all time high of 0.439 % in 2011 and an all time low of -0.372 % in 2016. When compared to Mongolia's main peers, foreign direct investments as a share of GDP in China amounted to 0.016 %, 0.123 % in Kazakhstan, 0.091 % in Kyrgyzstan and 0.025 % in Russia in 2016.
Mongolia has been ranked 171st within the group of 171 countries we follow in terms of foreign direct investments as a share of GDP, 124 places behind the position seen 10 years ago.
Foreign direct investments are the net inflow of investment needed to acquire a lasting management interest (10% or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor.
| Foreign Direct Investments (As % of GDP) | Unit | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| China | % | 0.037% | 0.028% | 0.030% | 0.026% | 0.022% | ||||
| Germany | % | 0.026% | 0.018% | 0.018% | 0.005% | 0.016% | ||||
| India | % | 0.020% | 0.013% | 0.015% | 0.017% | 0.021% | ||||
| Japan | % | < -0.001% | < 0.001% | 0.002% | 0.004% | 0.001% | ||||
| Kazakhstan | % | 0.071% | 0.066% | 0.042% | 0.033% | 0.035% | ||||
| Kyrgyzstan | % | 0.111% | 0.040% | 0.083% | 0.046% | 0.171% | ||||
| Mongolia | % | 0.439% | 0.348% | 0.164% | 0.028% | 0.008% | ||||
| Russia | % | 0.027% | 0.023% | 0.030% | 0.011% | 0.005% | ||||
| Tajikistan | % | 0.025% | 0.031% | 0.015% | 0.033% | 0.054% | ||||
| USA | % | 0.017% | 0.015% | 0.017% | 0.014% | 0.028% | ||||
| Uzbekistan | % | 0.036% | 0.011% | 0.011% | 0.012% | < 0.001% |
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