What is the highest foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit recorded in Caribbean Small States?

The highest recorded value was 0.1145 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2024.

What is the lowest foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit recorded in Caribbean Small States?

The lowest recorded value was -0.009 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2023.

How does Caribbean Small States rank for foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit?

Caribbean Small States ranks 6th out of 47 groups with data for 2025.

Is foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit rising or falling in Caribbean Small States?

Over the last ten years it is down 31.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit in Caribbean Small States

Name: Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit in Caribbean Small States
Creator: Statizoid (derived)
License: Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page

Caribbean Small States: Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit was 0.0219 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2025. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2025)

0.0219 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP

Change on year

down 80.9%

Rank

6th

of 47 groups

All-time high

0.1145 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP

in 2024

All-time low

-0.009 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP

in 2023

Years of data

1970–2025

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit in Caribbean Small States, 1970–2025

Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP.

Analysis

In 2025, foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit in Caribbean Small States stood at 0.0219 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP.

The figure is down 80.9% on the previous year and down 31.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit in Caribbean Small States peaked at 0.1145 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2024 and was at its lowest, -0.009 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP, in 2023.

Caribbean Small States ranks 6th of 47 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.

The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit in Caribbean Small States, year by year

Annual values for Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit of GDP in Caribbean Small States, 1970 to 2025.
Year	BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	Change
1970	0.0818 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	—
1971	0.0682 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-16.6%
1972	0.0736 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+7.8%
1973	0.0617 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-16.1%
1974	0.0654 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+6.0%
1975	0.0243 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-62.9%
1976	0.033 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+35.8%
1977	0.0186 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-43.4%
1978	0.0212 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+13.9%
1979	0.0169 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-20.4%
1980	0.0266 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+57.4%
1981	0.0379 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+42.7%
1982	0.0218 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-42.5%
1983	0.0188 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-14.0%
1984	0.0075 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-59.8%
1985	0.0038 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-49.8%
1986	-0.0018 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-148.1%
1987	0.0029 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-260.8%
1988	0.0054 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+85.7%
1989	0.0039 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-28.9%
1990	0.0176 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+357.0%
1991	0.0282 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+59.8%
1992	0.0302 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+7.2%
1993	0.0417 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+37.9%
1994	0.0545 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+30.7%
1995	0.0467 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-14.4%
1996	0.0416 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-10.9%
1997	0.0762 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+83.4%
1998	0.0582 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-23.7%
1999	0.051 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-12.4%
2000	0.0551 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+8.0%
2001	0.0594 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+7.9%
2002	0.0641 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+7.8%
2003	0.0538 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-15.9%
2004	0.0629 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+16.7%
2005	0.0669 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+6.5%
2006	0.0656 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-2.1%
2007	0.0609 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-7.1%
2008	0.0916 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+50.4%
2009	0.0529 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-42.2%
2010	0.0471 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-11.1%
2011	0.0376 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-20.2%
2012	0.0064 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-82.9%
2013	0.0084 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+30.6%
2014	0.0386 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+359.6%
2015	0.032 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-17.1%
2016	0.0318 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-0.5%
2017	0.015 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-53.0%
2018	0.0344 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+130.1%
2019	0.0702 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+103.7%
2020	0.0664 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-5.4%
2021	0.0483 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-27.2%
2022	-0.0006 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-101.3%
2023	-0.009 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	+1364.0%
2024	0.1145 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-1370.8%
2025	0.0219 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-80.9%

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1970s	0.0465 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0169 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0818 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	10
1980s	0.0127 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-0.0018 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0379 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	10
1990s	0.0446 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0176 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0762 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	10
2000s	0.0633 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0529 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0916 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	10
2010s	0.0321 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0064 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.0702 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	10
2020s	0.0402 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	-0.009 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	0.1145 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP	6

Countries ranked near Caribbean Small States

3 Cayman Islands 0.4092 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare
4 Guyana 0.3499 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare
5 Hong Kong, China 0.3081 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare
6 Cyprus 0.2708 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare
7 Singapore 0.2634 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare
8 Palau 0.2149 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare
9 Mozambique 0.1542 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP compare

See the full ranking of 247 places →

More economy & growth data for Caribbean Small States

GDP (current US$), annual growth rate 5.2 % change on previous year (2025)
Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (constant 2015 US$), per 17,188 constant 2015 US$ per person (2024)
Services, value added 47.22 billion current US$ (2024)
Services, value added 41.90 billion constant 2015 US$ (2024)
Services, value added 52.2% (2024)
GDP (constant 2015 US$), annual growth rate 7.98 % change on previous year (2025)
GDP (constant 2015 US$), per capita 20,053 constant 2015 US$ per person (2025)
GDP (constant 2015 US$), per unit of GDP 0.9604 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
Industry (including construction), value added 37.0% (2024)
GDP (current US$), per capita 20,880 current US$ per person (2025)

All data for Caribbean Small States →

Frequently asked questions

What is foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit in Caribbean Small States?: Foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit in Caribbean Small States was 0.0219 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2025, according to Statizoid (derived).
What is the highest foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit recorded in Caribbean Small States?: The highest recorded value was 0.1145 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2024.
What is the lowest foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit recorded in Caribbean Small States?: The lowest recorded value was -0.009 BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP in 2023.
How does Caribbean Small States rank for foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit?: Caribbean Small States ranks 6th out of 47 groups with data for 2025.
Is foreign direct investment, net inflows (bop, current us$), per unit rising or falling in Caribbean Small States?: Over the last ten years it is down 31.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
Where does this Caribbean Small States data come from?: The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit of GDP. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 56 observations, free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page.

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit in Caribbean Small States. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 11 September 2026, from https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/foreign-direct-investment-net-inflows-bop-current-us-per-unit-of-gdp/caribbean-small-states/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/foreign-direct-investment-net-inflows-bop-current-us-per-unit-of-gdp/caribbean-small-states/">Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit in Caribbean Small States</a> — Statizoid

How this figure is calculated

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) ÷ GDP (current US$)

Computed from

Foreign direct investment, net inflows 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
GDP Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks

Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.

About this data

Indicator: Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$), per unit of GDP
Unit: BoP, current US$ per US$ of GDP
Source: Statizoid (derived)
Licence: Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage: 247 places, 11,888 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed: 11 September 2026

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.