Investment and FDI.
Building capital. Understanding foreign investment.
Improving
A favourable change under this indicator’s stated rule, compared with the same period one year earlier.
Lower unemployment or debt/GDP is positive. Higher employment or a smaller trade deficit is also positive.
Green does not always mean the number increased.
Worsening
An unfavourable change under this indicator’s stated rule, compared with the same period one year earlier.
Higher unemployment or debt/GDP is negative. Inflation moving further from the dashboard’s 2% reference is also negative.
Red describes the observed change, not its cause or the country’s overall condition.
Unchanged / context needed
No improvement or deterioration is assigned. The value may be unchanged, its meaning ambiguous, or the comparison unavailable or delayed.
Imports can rise because of demand or investment, so they remain neutral. Missing or delayed comparisons also remain neutral.
Neutral does not mean good, bad, or zero.
Fixed investment measures assets used in production. FDI measures cross-border ownership and financing transactions. Do not add them together.
Investment at a glance
Fixed investment over time
Foreign direct investment flows
What assets are being built?
Five non-overlapping asset groups at current prices. Shares use fixed investment in the same year.
Read the two measures separately
FDI includes acquisitions of existing businesses, reinvested earnings, intercompany loans and real estate. It does not tell us how many new factories, jobs or productive assets were created.
Outward FDI is investment by residents abroad. A rise is not automatically good or bad. Fixed investment and FDI cannot be summed or used as substitutes.
FDI is shown from the harmonised Eurostat BPM6 series, with the Bank of Greece as national compiler. Detailed annual dissemination can lag newer national releases. No values from different releases are silently combined.
Bank of Greece · FDI definitions and releases ↗Investment and foreign direct investment in Greece
Compare fixed capital investment and foreign direct investment in Greece, with historical series and clear distinctions between investment measures.
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