Signal FDI to the six rose from $50.0bn in 2015 to $74.7bn in 2024, averaging 67.6% of inflows

Summary

This signal traces a decade of capital inflows into the six Southeast Asian growth markets. Total inflows varied considerably from year to year between 2015 and 2024. Foreign direct investment stayed the main source throughout, rising modestly from $50.0 billion in 2015 to $74.7 billion in 2024. Over the whole period it averaged 67.6 percent of total inflows, while portfolio and bank-related and other flows each averaged 16.2 percent. Those two smaller components were highly erratic, with portfolio inflows ranging from minus $7.9 billion in 2022 to $33.0 billion in 2019.