Economic Policy & Debt · Iran, Islamic Rep.
Iran, Islamic Rep.: Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$)
Yearly data from 1976 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Economic Policy & Debt · Iran, Islamic Rep.
Yearly data from 1976 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Iran, Islamic Rep.'s foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$) was US$103.99 million in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 13.12% from US$119.69 million in 2015 (1.4% a year on average, compounded).
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$103.99 million | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | US$78.39 million | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | US$119.69 million | 2015 |
| Highest | US$1.36 billion | 2012 |
| Lowest | −US$325.71 million | 2003 |
| Average since 2016 | US$87.94 million | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | US$0 | 1976 |
Over five years it is up 32.66% from US$78.39 million in 2020 (5.82% a year on average, compounded).
In 2025, Iran, Islamic Rep.'s foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$) rose US$14.57 million on 2024 (from US$89.42 million to US$103.99 million).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +US$2.67 million and a typical year strayed about US$334.56 million from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 US$1.1 billion in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was US$1.17 billion in 2013. 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 11% 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, Iran, Islamic Rep. had the 90th highest value of the 174 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | US$103.99 million | 2025 |
| World | US$2.08 trillion | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | US$253.01 billion | 2025 |
Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in an economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Limitations: FDI data do not give a complete picture of international investment in an economy. Balance of payments data on FDI do not include capital raised locally, an important source of investment financing in some developing countries. In addition, FDI data omit nonequity cross-border transactions such as intra-unit flows of goods and services. The volume of global private financial flows reported by the World Bank generally differs from that reported by other sources because of differences in sources, classification of economies, and method used to adjust and disaggregate reported information.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
| Year | Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 103,993,384 |
| 2024 | 89,423,494 |
| 2023 | 86,665,136 |
| 2022 | 100,000,000 |
| 2021 | 81,605,346 |
| 2020 | 78,390,062 |
| 2019 | 84,820,630 |
| 2018 | 74,601,111 |
| 2017 | 75,748,444 |
| 2016 | 104,112,333 |
| 2015 | 119,691,000 |
| 2014 | 3,442,000 |
| 2013 | 189,204,000 |
| 2012 | 1,356,030,000 |
| 2011 | 257,628,000 |
| 2010 | 238,956,000 |
| 2009 | 95,569,000 |
| 2008 | 202,152,000 |
| 2007 | 358,571,000 |
| 2006 | 148,445,000 |
| 2005 | 414,564,000 |
| 2004 | 104,573,000 |
| 2003 | -325,706,000 |
| 2002 | 15,201,000 |
| 2001 | 50,000,000 |
| 2000 | 10,993,000 |
| 1999 | 193,802,000 |
| 1998 | 63,386,000 |
| 1997 | 80,134,000 |
| 1996 | 79,126,000 |
| 1995 | 2,256,000 |
| 1994 | 9,301,000 |
| 1993 | -132,535,000 |
| 1992 | 30,686,000 |
| 1991 | 17,972,000 |
| 1990 | 55,996,000 |
| 1989 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 |
| 1976 | 0 |
Every indicator for Iran, Islamic Rep. is on the Iran, Islamic Rep. data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BM.KLT.DINV.CD.WD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original 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 Development and official national sources.; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Official… 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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