Economic Policy & Debt · Angola
Yearly data from 1980 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Angola's foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) was 1.81% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 7.97 percentage points from 9.78% in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.81% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -3.19% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 9.78% | 2015 |
| Highest | 40.17% | 1999 |
| Lowest | -8.64% | 2017 |
| Average since 2016 | -3.63% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 0.63% | 1980 |
Over five years it is up 5 percentage points from -3.19% in 2020. Since 1980 it is up 1.18 percentage points from 0.63% in 1980.
In 2025, Angola's foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) rose 2.89 percentage points on 2024 (from -1.08% to 1.81%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.16 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 9.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 23.05 percentage points in 1999 and the biggest yearly fall was 30.54 percentage points in 2000. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 29% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2025, Angola had the 104th highest value of the 182 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | 1.81% | 2025 |
| World | 1.42% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 2.12% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 1.47% | 2025 |
Foreign direct investment is the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net inflows (new investment inflows less disinvestment) in the reporting economy from foreign investors, and is divided by GDP.
Limitations: FDI data do not give a complete picture of international investment in an economy. Balance of payments data on FDI do not include capital raised locally, an important source of investment financing in some developing countries. In addition, FDI data omit nonequity cross-border transactions such as intra-unit flows of goods and services. The volume of global private financial flows reported by the World Bank generally differs from that reported by other sources because of differences in sources, classification of economies, and method used to adjust and disaggregate reported information.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.81 |
| 2024 | -1.08 |
| 2023 | -2 |
| 2022 | -5.15 |
| 2021 | -5.56 |
| 2020 | -3.19 |
| 2019 | -5.05 |
| 2018 | -7.13 |
| 2017 | -8.64 |
| 2016 | -0.2954 |
| 2015 | 9.78 |
| 2014 | 2.38 |
| 2013 | -4.78 |
| 2012 | -1.02 |
| 2011 | -2.41 |
| 2010 | -3.38 |
| 2009 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 1.7 |
| 2007 | -1.22 |
| 2006 | -0.0643 |
| 2005 | -3.15 |
| 2004 | 8.14 |
| 2003 | 17.58 |
| 2002 | 10.07 |
| 2001 | 24.01 |
| 2000 | 9.62 |
| 1999 | 40.17 |
| 1998 | 17.12 |
| 1997 | 5.38 |
| 1996 | 2.4 |
| 1995 | 8.53 |
| 1994 | 3.84 |
| 1993 | 5.24 |
| 1992 | 3.47 |
| 1991 | 6.27 |
| 1990 | -2.98 |
| 1989 | 1.96 |
| 1988 | 1.49 |
| 1987 | 1.47 |
| 1986 | 3.31 |
| 1985 | 3.68 |
| 1984 | 1.1 |
| 1983 | 1.8 |
| 1982 | 2.09 |
| 1981 | 0.8837 |
| 1980 | 0.631 |
Every indicator for Angola is on the Angola data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics and Balance of Payments databases, International Monetary Fund (IMF); International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB); World Bank GDP estimates, World Bank (WB); OECD GDP estimates, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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