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  "format": "india-by-the-numbers.series.v1",
  "id": "world/global-fdi",
  "name": "Foreign direct investment and greenfield announcements",
  "hub": "World",
  "topic": "Remittances and investment",
  "moduleIds": [
    "global-fdi"
  ],
  "url": "https://data.indiadispatch.com/world/fdi-inflows",
  "period": "2025",
  "periodKey": "2025",
  "latest": {
    "formattedValue": "$38.9 billion",
    "usd": 38891331000
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "United Nations Trade and Development",
    "url": "https://unctad.org/"
  },
  "numericValue": 38891331000,
  "unit": "USD",
  "measure": "inflows_usd_million",
  "cadence": "Annual",
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  "dateModified": "2026-10-05T05:33:24.257Z",
  "coverage": "1996/2025",
  "notes": [
    "The table retains the source’s published periods. Missing observations are not zero and have not been interpolated.",
    "FDI inflows and India's world share are UNCTAD annual series. Greenfield capital expenditure is the separately published value of announced projects, not realised investment."
  ],
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    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "scope": "India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text"
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  "sourceRights": "Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.",
  "attribution": "India by the numbers, Foreign direct investment and greenfield announcements, 2025, https://data.indiadispatch.com/world/fdi-inflows. Source: United Nations Trade and Development.",
  "valueRepresentation": "Table cells are the publication's formatted observations, with units retained. Missing observations are not zero. Numeric latest amounts, where present, are separately labelled INR and USD.",
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    {
      "title": "Annual foreign direct investment",
      "temporalCoverage": "1996/2025",
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        "Year",
        "Inflows",
        "World share"
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            "1996",
            "$2.53 billion",
            "0.64%"
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        {
          "id": "1997",
          "cells": [
            "1997",
            "$3.62 billion",
            "0.75%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "1998",
          "cells": [
            "1998",
            "$2.63 billion",
            "0.39%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "1999",
          "cells": [
            "1999",
            "$2.17 billion",
            "0.2%"
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        },
        {
          "id": "2000",
          "cells": [
            "2000",
            "$3.59 billion",
            "0.26%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2001",
          "cells": [
            "2001",
            "$5.48 billion",
            "0.71%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2002",
          "cells": [
            "2002",
            "$5.63 billion",
            "0.95%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2003",
          "cells": [
            "2003",
            "$4.32 billion",
            "0.79%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2004",
          "cells": [
            "2004",
            "$5.78 billion",
            "0.83%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2005",
          "cells": [
            "2005",
            "$7.62 billion",
            "0.8%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2006",
          "cells": [
            "2006",
            "$20.3 billion",
            "1.45%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2007",
          "cells": [
            "2007",
            "$25.3 billion",
            "1.34%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2008",
          "cells": [
            "2008",
            "$47.1 billion",
            "3.23%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2009",
          "cells": [
            "2009",
            "$35.6 billion",
            "2.9%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2010",
          "cells": [
            "2010",
            "$27.4 billion",
            "1.96%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2011",
          "cells": [
            "2011",
            "$36.2 billion",
            "2.15%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2012",
          "cells": [
            "2012",
            "$24.2 billion",
            "1.66%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2013",
          "cells": [
            "2013",
            "$28.2 billion",
            "1.86%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2014",
          "cells": [
            "2014",
            "$34.6 billion",
            "2.36%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2015",
          "cells": [
            "2015",
            "$44.1 billion",
            "1.98%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2016",
          "cells": [
            "2016",
            "$44.5 billion",
            "2.17%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2017",
          "cells": [
            "2017",
            "$39.9 billion",
            "2.25%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2018",
          "cells": [
            "2018",
            "$42.2 billion",
            "3.27%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2019",
          "cells": [
            "2019",
            "$50.6 billion",
            "3.06%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2020",
          "cells": [
            "2020",
            "$64.1 billion",
            "7.43%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2021",
          "cells": [
            "2021",
            "$44.8 billion",
            "2.52%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2022",
          "cells": [
            "2022",
            "$49.4 billion",
            "3.44%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2023",
          "cells": [
            "2023",
            "$28.1 billion",
            "2.13%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2024",
          "cells": [
            "2024",
            "$27.1 billion",
            "1.77%"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2025",
          "cells": [
            "2025",
            "$38.9 billion",
            "2.39%"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Greenfield project announcements",
      "temporalCoverage": "2024",
      "columns": [
        "Year",
        "Announced capex",
        "Change"
      ],
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        {
          "id": "2024",
          "cells": [
            "2024",
            "$110 billion",
            "28%"
          ]
        }
      ]
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