CONFÉRENCE DES NATIONS UNIES SUR
LE COMMERCE ET LE DÉVELOPPEMENT
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE
ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
World Investment Report 2008
Transnational Corporations
and the Infrastructure Challenge
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Belize
Country fact sheet:
17:00 hrs GMT on 24 September 2008
Foreign direct investment (FDI) overview, selected years
(Millions of dollars and percentages)
FDI flows
1990-2000
(Annual average)
Belize
Inward
21
Outward
3
Memorandum
Brazil
12 000
Inward
Outward
1 048
Guatemala
159
Inward
Outward
7
Central America
10 798
Inward
Outward
1 276
Latin America and the Caribbean
47 117
Inward
Outward
13 487
Developing economies
130 755
Inward
Outward
52 928
World
492 605
Inward
Outward
492 535
FDI stocks
2004
2005
2006
2007
112
-
127
1
104
1
112
1
18 146
9 807
15 066
2 517
18 822
28 202
296
41
508
38
26 248
6 300
as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation
1990-2000
2005
2006
2007
14.5
2.4
61.2
0.5
44.1
0.3
45.5
0.4
34 585
7 067
9.8
0.9
10.7
1.8
10.6
15.9
15.0
3.1
592
60
724
65
6.4
-
10.2
0.8
10.5
1.1
11.6
1.0
24 756
7 975
25 209
8 121
31 920
11 399
12.3
1.5
13.2
4.3
11.6
3.7
15.3
5.4
94 443
28 027
76 412
35 765
92 945
63 281
126 266
52 336
13.2
3.8
15.4
7.3
15.4
10.6
18.0
7.5
283 641
120 008
316 444
117 579
412 990
212 258
499 747
253 145
9.2
3.8
11.4
4.3
12.5
6.5
12.6
6.4
717 695
920 151
958 697
880 808
1 411 018
1 323 150
1 833 324
1 996 514
7.7
7.9
9.7
9.0
12.9
12.2
14.8
16.2
1995
2000
2006
2007
1990
2000
2006
2007
175
28
301
43
719
46
831
47
22.0
4.9
36.2
5.2
59.1
3.7
65.2
3.7
47 887
44 474
122 250
51 946
236 186
113 925
328 455
129 840
8.5
9.4
19.0
8.1
22.0
10.6
25.0
9.9
2 202
..
3 420
69
5 783
287
6 506
352
25.4
..
19.9
0.4
19.0
0.9
19.3
1.0
48 470
9 813
115 123
19 075
277 763
59 513
309 810
70 876
9.7
2.4
17.7
3.0
26.4
5.7
30.6
7.0
185 123
88 172
502 900
204 668
945 029
430 021
1 140 007
493 213
9.9
5.5
24.5
10.3
30.3
14.2
32.4
14.5
851 534
329 400
1 738 255
861 842
3 303 169
1 702 304
4 246 739
2 288 073
13.6
4.0
25.2
12.9
26.7
14.2
29.8
16.5
2 914 356
2 941 198
5 786 700
6 148 211
12 470 085
12 756 149
15 210 560
15 602 339
9.1
8.5
18.1
19.4
25.5
26.3
27.9
28.9
(Annual average)
as a percentage of gross domestic product
1990
Belize
Inward
89
Outward
20
Memorandum
Brazil
37 143
Inward
Outward
41 044
Guatemala
1 734
Inward
Outward
..
Central America
28 496
Inward
Outward
6 668
Latin America and the Caribbean
110 547
Inward
Outward
58 133
Developing economies
528 638
Inward
Outward
144 862
World
1 941 252
Inward
Outward
1 785 267
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2008 ; www.unctad.org/wir or www.unctad.org/fdistatistics
For details, see "definitions and sources" in annex B and annex tables B. 1-B.3 inWIR08.
Cross-border merger and acquisition overview, 1990-2007
(Millions of dollars)
Region/economy
Sales
1990-2000
Purchases
2005
2006
2007
2006
2007
..
-
-
-
27
-
-
-
1 354
11
1 425
8 571
16 531
159 269
7 329
10
5 718
29 132
122 473
929 362
14 166
140
5 732
46 138
171 811
1 118 068
16 613
10
12 890
51 238
179 221
1 637 107
385
..
802
4 384
12 806
159 269
5 343
3 557
15 244
90 479
929 362
24 582
49
5 253
39 270
151 605
1 118 068
9 858
140
19 842
47 625
178 438
1 637 107
(Annual average)
Belize
Memorandum
Brazil
Guatemala
Central America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Developing economies
World
1990-2000
2005
(Annual average)
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2008 ; www.unctad.org/wir or www.unctad.org/fdistatistics
For details, see "definitions and sources" in annex B and annex tables B. 4 and B. 6 inWIR08.
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