CONFÉRENCE DES NATIONS UNIES SUR LE COMMERCE ET LE DÉVELOPPEMENT
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
World Investment Report 2010
Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy
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Thailand
Country fact sheet:
17:00 hrs GMT on 22 July 2010
Foreign direct investment (FDI) overview, selected years (Millions of dollars and percentages)
FDI flows Thailand Inward Outward Memorandum Indonesia Inward Outward Malaysia Inward Outward South-East Asia Inward Outward Asia and Oceania Inward Outward Developing economies Inward Outward World Inward Outward
FDI stocks Thailand Inward Outward Memorandum Indonesia Inward Outward Malaysia Inward Outward South-East Asia Inward Outward Asia and Oceania Inward Outward Developing economies Inward Outward World Inward Outward
1995-2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
(Annual average)
as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation 1995-2005 2007 2008
2009
(Annual average)
4 805 425
9 517 970
11 355 2 850
8 544 2 560
5 949 3 818
11.6 1.0
17.4 4.4
11.4 3.4
9.2 5.9
1 444 850
4 914 2 726
6 928 4 675
9 318 5 900
4 877 2 949
3.1 1.8
6.4 4.3
6.6 4.2
2.9 1.8
4 068 1 983
6 060 6 084
8 538 11 280
7 318 14 988
1 381 8 038
14.4 7.0
21.2 28.0
16.8 34.5
3.5 20.6
27 954 11 543
56 408 28 808
73 971 50 178
47 289 15 387
36 806 21 284
16.2 7.1
23.9 16.4
12.5 4.1
9.4 5.5
123 886 54 314
284 426 154 013
338 226 225 550
374 639 204 344
303 230 176 795
9.7 4.3
11.2 7.5
9.8 5.4
7.5 4.4
211 470 79 351
434 366 228 691
564 930 292 147
630 013 296 286
478 349 229 159
11.9 4.6
14.0 7.3
12.5 5.9
9.3 4.5
741 045 717 852
1 459 133 1 410 574
2 099 973 2 267 547
1 770 873 1 928 799
1 114 189 1 100 993
10.3 10.0
16.9 18.4
12.6 13.8
9.1 9.0
1995
2000
2007
2008
2009
17 684 2 276
29 915 2 203
94 112 9 835
93 046 12 467
99 000 16 303
10.5 1.4
38.1 4.0
34.2 4.6
37.5 6.2
20 626 5 896
25 060 6 940
79 927 21 333
67 964 27 233
72 841 30 183
9.3 2.7
18.5 4.9
13.3 5.3
13.5 5.6
28 731 5 123
52 747 15 878
76 612 58 233
73 262 67 580
74 643 75 618
32.3 5.8
41.2 31.3
33.1 30.5
39.0 39.5
152 475 50 127
266 985 84 481
654 935 314 272
653 169 321 207
689 980 342 367
22.6 7.7
50.6 26.1
43.3 23.1
46.3 25.2
571 926 210 589
1 072 150 614 051
2 877 821 1 820 112
2 540 106 1 719 462
2 905 987 1 946 038
16.3 6.1
29.5 19.0
22.4 15.4
25.8 17.6
848 381 329 982
1 728 455 862 628
4 452 645 2 420 321
4 213 666 2 393 251
4 893 490 2 691 484
14.6 5.9
30.0 16.8
24.4 14.3
29.1 16.5
3 381 329 3 606 556
7 442 548 7 967 460
17 990 069 19 313 981
15 491 182 16 206 795
17 743 408 18 982 118
11.4 12.2
32.5 35.3
25.4 26.8
30.7 33.2
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2010; www.unctad.org/wir or www.unctad.org/fdistatistics.
as a percentage of gross domestic product 1995 2007 2008
2009
Cross-border merger and acquisition overview, 1995–2009 (Millions of dollars) Sales(net) 2007
1995-2005
Region/economy
(Annual average)
Thailand Memorandum Indonesia Malaysia South-East Asia Asia and Oceania Developing economies World
2008
2009
Purchases(net) 2007 2008
1995-2005
(Annual average)
2009
1 000
2 372
142
346
60
54
1 416
872
1 045 608 4 174 19 142 40 624 357 132
1 706 6 976 20 061 71 657 100 381 1 022 725
2 070 2 781 22 743 68 167 104 812 706 543
1 332 354 12 913 38 295 39 077 249 732
91 1 477 6 543 18 927 25 868 357 132
826 3 654 25 936 94 743 144 830 1 022 725
913 9 751 18 922 95 167 105 849 706 543
- 2 590 3 277 4 325 67 534 73 975 249 732
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2010 ; www.unctad.org/wir or www.unctad.org/fdistatistics.
Country rankings by Inward FDI performance Index and Inward FDI Potential Index, 2007–2009 Economy Poland Denmark Bolivia, Plurinational State of Rwanda Australia Thailand France Burkina Faso United Kingdom Uzbekistan El Salvador
2007
Inward FDI Performance 2008
2009
Economy
60 85 96 105 70 73 88 67 51 94 43
89 125 85 97 61 83 100 111 78 96 76
65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75
2007 Latvia Azerbaijan Mexico Argentina Bulgaria Thailand Panama Angola Romania Bahamas Brazil
Inward FDI Potential Index 2008 2009
49 65 58 59 54 61 63 72 64 60 71
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2010 ; www.unctad.org/wir or www.unctad.org/fdistatistics.
Note: Ranking is that of the latest year available. Covering 141 economies. The potential index is based on 12 economic and policy variables.
Presence in the top 100 non-financial TNCs from developing countries, ranked by foreign assets, 2008 (Millions of dollars and number of employees) Corporation
Ranking by:
Industry
PTT Public Company Limited
Foreign assets
Petroleum expl./ref./distr.
89
Foreign TNI
a
97
Assets 2 525
Sales 5 993
TNI a Employment
(Per cent)
798
10
Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2010; www.unctad.org/wir or www.unctad.org/fdistatistics. TNI, the Transnationlity Index, is calculated as the average of the following three ratios: foreign assets to total assets, foreign sales to total sales and foreign employment to total employment. a
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