International Investment Position, Australia: Supplementary Statistics

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Supplementary statistics on Australia's international investment position by counterpart countries

Reference period

2022

Released

3/05/2023

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Key statistics

Australia’s IIP was a liability of $856.8b at 31 December 2022, a rise of $81.7b from the end of 2021.
Foreign investment in Australia rose $432.9b to $4,598.8b.
Australian investment abroad rose $351.2b to $3,742.0b.

Level of investment

Level of investment, by components, 31 December 2022
	Foreign Investment in Australia ($b)	Australian Investment Abroad ($b)
Direct Investment	1,118.9	975.5
Portfolio Investment - equity	834.3	1,090.8
Portfolio Investment - debt	1,344.3	398.3
Financial Derivatives	630.3	599.6
Other Investment	602.9	515.8
Reserve Assets	0	93.8

Level of investment, by components, 31 December 2022

["","Foreign Investment in Australia","Australian Investment Abroad"]

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International Investment Position, by year (2001 - 2022)
	International Investment Position ($b)	Foreign Investment in Australia ($b)	Australian Investment Abroad ($b)
2001	350.5	912.6	562.1
2002	399.2	975.9	576.7
2003	439.0	1,069.2	630.2
2004	488.3	1,236.2	747.8
2005	529.0	1,337.9	808.8
2006	589.2	1,593.2	1,004.1
2007	640.4	1,797.6	1,157.2
2008	702.4	1,873.3	1,170.9
2009	758.8	1,991.9	1,233.2
2010	754.1	2,063.1	1,309.0
2011	798.0	2,146.2	1,348.2
2012	816.8	2,308.9	1,492.1
2013	822.5	2,585.4	1,762.9
2014	849.9	2,881.9	2,032.0
2015	943.4	3,157.5	2,214.1
2016	987.5	3,326.2	2,338.7
2017	1,009.7	3,447.3	2,437.7
2018	1,036.5	3,655.3	2,618.8
2019	950.4	3,964.2	3,013.9
2020	989.1	4,068.8	3,079.7
2021	775.1	4,165.9	3,390.8
2022	856.8	4,598.8	3,742.0

International Investment Position, by year (2001 - 2022)

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Level of foreign investment in Australia

The following graph and all subsequent graphs illustrate the levels of foreign investment from select countries and country groups for the past 5 years (2018-2022).

Level of foreign investment in Australia, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	3,601.3	957.9	615.3	645.5	234.4	122.8	123.2	53.3	69.6	48.7
2019	3,910.1	1,015.1	723.6	691.2	244.5	133.4	143.2	59.5	80.6	66.5
2020	4,013.5	925.9	770.1	779.7	265.1	149.5	139.3	64.7	81.2	68.4
2021	4,104.1	1,049.5	722.1	763.1	258.0	154.2	124.1	75.5	91.4	69.1
2022	4,530.7	1,092.2	1,007.0	740.3	257.4	183.4	132.9	99.6	85.1	72.2

Level of foreign investment in Australia, by country/country group, by year

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Top 20 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	3,601,304	3,910,137	4,013,483	4,104,146	4,530,657
United States of America	957,926	1,015,134	925,949	1,049,528	1,092,200
United Kingdom	615,323	723,567	770,060	722,130	1,007,007
Belgium	315,313	347,962	408,639	393,912	359,016
Japan	234,392	244,532	265,094	257,954	257,369
Singapore	89,202	98,885	115,933	121,497	148,606
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	123,163	143,222	139,280	124,075	132,864
Canada	53,323	59,517	64,739	75,523	99,619
Luxembourg	78,536	87,469	106,997	92,382	88,961
Netherlands	83,926	88,926	84,403	88,349	87,575
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	69,584	80,554	81,164	91,437	85,138
Switzerland	50,558	58,441	61,926	69,488	74,128
New Zealand	48,652	66,462	68,358	69,145	72,197
France	49,136	34,596	42,928	43,427	54,048
Germany	48,500	50,133	46,903	48,596	52,519
Bermuda	46,964	45,145	42,449	42,542	45,361
Ireland	23,493	29,903	37,574	40,362	38,539
India	14,847	16,082	np	27,778	34,496
Norway	19,716	25,071	25,559	28,299	30,065
Korea, Republic of (South)	30,829	31,255	31,133	29,779	28,147
Virgin Islands, British	23,987	24,383	25,350	23,541	22,998

Level of Australian investment abroad

Levels of foreign investment from select countries and country groups for the past 5 years (2018-2022):

Level of Australian investment abroad, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	2,564.8	730.6	432.0	296.5	114.2	108.2	59.9	80.5	79.3	98.1
2019	2,959.8	837.6	540.3	326.9	139.6	125.5	66.4	82.4	85.4	133.1
2020	3,024.4	870.9	624.1	342.3	108.5	95.0	69.3	93.9	67.1	108.1
2021	3,329.1	1,106.6	536.6	394.9	127.9	93.9	64.0	88.7	70.5	103.0
2022	3,673.9	1,073.3	836.0	398.1	125.7	106.3	80.4	103.3	62.5	151.9

Level of Australian investment abroad, by country/country group, by year

["","Total all countries","United States of America","United Kingdom","EU (excludes UK)","Japan","ASEAN","Hong Kong (SAR of China)","Canada","China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)","New Zealand"]

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

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Top 20 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	2,564,773	2,959,766	3,024,380	3,329,078	3,673,863
United States of America	730,620	837,647	870,884	1,106,611	1,073,341
United Kingdom	431,978	540,268	624,115	536,605	835,991
New Zealand	98,064	133,078	108,133	103,009	151,891
Japan	114,156	139,584	108,528	127,860	125,652
Cayman Islands	79,453	82,329	80,868	94,191	104,206
Canada	80,488	82,351	93,879	88,689	103,272
France	54,070	52,212	61,364	64,412	82,001
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	59,895	66,385	69,265	64,038	80,386
Singapore	73,867	84,228	63,150	59,727	76,197
Germany	73,851	97,647	87,099	99,602	71,639
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	79,333	85,445	67,059	70,513	62,481
Netherlands	45,820	44,247	46,014	51,218	57,871
Ireland	15,530	21,287	36,795	50,031	49,365
Bermuda	38,242	39,020	38,227	39,176	41,686
Switzerland	26,664	33,747	30,239	34,972	36,733
Luxembourg	21,434	19,358	19,023	22,824	27,893
Korea, Republic of (South)	21,373	22,253	25,096	26,973	27,311
Papua New Guinea	17,414	17,060	17,331	24,968	26,207
Taiwan	10,157	16,817	15,803	20,391	17,636
India	15,615	19,820	15,619	19,841	17,580

Financial account transactions

The financial account at 31 December 2022 recorded a deficit of $22.2b, following a deficit of $61.1b recorded at the end of 2021.

Foreign investment in Australia, direct and portfolio investment transactions

Direct investment recorded an inflow of $88.8b; and
Portfolio investment recorded an inflow of $159.6b

Foreign investment in Australia, Direct investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	90.4	24.1	8.0	19.4	9.3	4.5	1.5	7.3	4.4	0.8
2019	55.9	1.5	27.6	-2.7	12.0	4.4	1.9	4.7	4.3	-0.7
2020	19.7	-13.7	5.3	5.6	20.4	2.6	-0.8	1.3	1.6	0.6
2021	27.8	-8.9	9.9	7.8	3.6	8.3	0.3	8.9	2.7	-0.7
2022	88.8	2.0	13.4	8.0	1.1	-0.8	1.8	20.3	-2.9	1.1

Foreign investment in Australia, Direct investment transactions, by country/country group, by year

["","Total all countries","United States of America","United Kingdom","EU (excludes UK)","Japan","ASEAN","Hong Kong (SAR of China)","Canada","China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)","New Zealand"]

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Top 10 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	90,432	55,937	19,737	27,821	88,849
Canada	7,274	4,747	1,267	8,865	20,286
United Kingdom	7,996	27,610	5,301	9,857	13,424
Netherlands	-5,441	4,980	260	2,570	3,055
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	4,385	4,324	1,583	2,659	-2,859
Sweden	333	743	299	2,430	2,497
United States of America	24,070	1,493	-13,696	-8,851	2,026
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	1,457	1,931	-762	308	1,804
Singapore	4,366	4,598	3,503	7,812	-1,677
Jersey	np	np	np	421	1,185
Japan	9,258	11,966	20,434	3,620	1,084

Foreign investment in Australia, Portfolio investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	61.2	-10.2	42.5	21.6	-3.8	-0.4	12.9	-0.2	-2.9	4.5
2019	36.8	-6.1	-4.4	31.5	-5.7	-0.9	6.8	0.0	0.9	13.1
2020	63.2	-35.6	-32.5	89.1	9.6	6.7	-5.3	0.2	0.8	0.8
2021	77.0	60.1	33.5	6.2	-9.2	0.6	-7.8	-0.7	-0.1	0.5
2022	159.6	45.4	35.1	35.0	7.0	6.2	-6.8	5.5	1.9	0.1

Foreign investment in Australia, Portfolio investment transactions, by country/country group, by year

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Top 10 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	61,243	36,803	63,150	76,969	159,635
United States of America	-10,246	-6,078	-35,617	60,146	45,437
United Kingdom	42,539	-4,410	-32,476	33,507	35,079
Belgium	14,810	27,525	62,864	9,303	26,485
Japan	-3,801	-5,708	9,635	-9,234	6,986
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	12,906	6,824	-5,306	-7,760	-6,781
France	2,854	-2,083	3,412	6,533	6,146
Canada	-185	-45	247	-706	5,507
Singapore	-707	-2,016	9,021	-495	4,888
Switzerland	597	1,987	5,077	6,664	4,239
Norway	1,344	2,416	1,213	-107	4,217

Australian investment abroad, direct and portfolio investment transactions

Direct investment recorded an outflow of $168.0b; and
Portfolio investment recorded an outflow of $37.4b

Australian investment abroad, Direct investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	10.5	4.1	12.9	15.2	0.3	-4.4	0.1	7.2	1.0	-0.7
2019	14.3	3.7	14.1	14.1	na	2.0	-0.5	2.4	0.3	3.6
2020	8.8	5.6	0.2	2.6	na	2.8	0.3	2.0	-0.9	2.1
2021	4.5	11.8	-16.6	0.1	-0.1	1.2	1.6	-2.5	-0.1	4.2
2022	168.0	11.8	109.7	6.2	na	5.6	0.0	11.1	-1.7	13.4

Australian investment abroad, Direct investment transactions, by country/country group, by year

["","Total all countries","United States of America","United Kingdom","EU (excludes UK)","Japan","ASEAN","Hong Kong (SAR of China)","Canada","China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)","New Zealand"]

[["2018","2019","2020","2021","2022"],[[10.471],[14.327],[8.7690000000000001],[4.5279999999999996],[168.04400000000001]],[[4.125],[3.7290000000000001],[5.5529999999999999],[11.827],[11.821999999999999]],[[12.897],[14.087],[0.20599999999999999],[-16.613],[109.65300000000001]],[[15.201000000000001],[14.103999999999999],[2.573],[0.13500000000000001],[6.2380000000000004]],[[0.26200000000000001],[null],[null],[-0.075999999999999998],[null]],[[-4.4409999999999998],[2.0019999999999998],[2.7930000000000001],[1.157],[5.6159999999999997]],[[0.11899999999999999],[-0.47299999999999998],[0.30299999999999999],[1.6040000000000001],[0.029000000000000001]],[[7.157],[2.4119999999999999],[1.992],[-2.5470000000000002],[11.061999999999999]],[[1.008],[0.27400000000000002],[-0.84999999999999998],[-0.067000000000000004],[-1.7030000000000001]],[[-0.67600000000000005],[3.552],[2.0499999999999998],[4.2450000000000001],[13.422000000000001]]]

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Signage not applied

Top 10 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	10,471	14,327	8,769	4,528	168,044
United Kingdom	12,897	14,087	206	-16,613	109,653
New Zealand	-676	3,552	2,050	4,245	13,422
United States of America	4,125	3,729	5,553	11,827	11,822
Canada	7,157	2,412	1,992	-2,547	11,062
Singapore	286	1,202	2,078	1,846	6,575
Netherlands	608	np	366	491	3,026
Papua New Guinea	-486	681	np	np	2,324
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	1,008	274	-850	-67	-1,703
Germany	980	500	-365	np	-1,078
United Arab Emirates	np	52	27	np	360

Australian investment abroad, Portfolio investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	81.1	23.1	4.9	20.4	0.2	5.1	2.4	5.6	4.3	-0.7
2019	81.5	25.2	10.6	0.8	7.6	11.0	3.0	2.0	6.8	2.9
2020	85.1	65.2	3.1	6.2	3.8	4.4	-3.7	10.2	-5.5	2.4
2021	158.1	89.1	6.5	20.8	16.8	4.2	-1.2	2.6	6.0	0.4
2022	37.4	3.4	7.5	5.0	-1.2	-1.8	5.4	4.5	2.4	3.3

Australian investment abroad, Portfolio investment transactions, by country/country group, by year

["","Total all countries","United States of America","United Kingdom","EU (excludes UK)","Japan","ASEAN","Hong Kong (SAR of China)","Canada","China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)","New Zealand"]

[["2018","2019","2020","2021","2022"],[[81.111999999999995],[81.463999999999999],[85.078999999999994],[158.108],[37.439999999999998]],[[23.100000000000001],[25.210999999999999],[65.207999999999998],[89.135999999999996],[3.415]],[[4.8739999999999997],[10.555999999999999],[3.0790000000000002],[6.4960000000000004],[7.5220000000000002]],[[20.369],[0.83999999999999997],[6.1699999999999999],[20.751999999999999],[4.9500000000000002]],[[0.19900000000000001],[7.6310000000000002],[3.839],[16.789000000000001],[-1.167]],[[5.0979999999999999],[10.959],[4.3689999999999998],[4.1909999999999998],[-1.8120000000000001]],[[2.3660000000000001],[3.016],[-3.6539999999999999],[-1.236],[5.4320000000000004]],[[5.5990000000000002],[2.0139999999999998],[10.204000000000001],[2.6469999999999998],[4.4800000000000004]],[[4.3479999999999999],[6.8259999999999996],[-5.5190000000000001],[5.9619999999999997],[2.4119999999999999]],[[-0.65900000000000003],[2.9009999999999998],[2.4369999999999998],[0.36099999999999999],[3.2829999999999999]]]

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Signage not applied

Top 10 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	81,112	81,464	85,079	158,108	37,440
United Kingdom	4,874	10,556	3,079	6,496	7,522
France	5,452	-8,752	6,645	4,011	6,037
Ireland	1,065	1,109	2,702	2,643	-5,821
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	2,366	3,016	-3,654	-1,236	5,432
Canada	5,599	2,014	10,204	2,647	4,480
Netherlands	2,439	985	-1,014	4,662	3,498
United States of America	23,100	25,211	65,208	89,136	3,415
New Zealand	-659	2,901	2,437	361	3,283
Germany	-883	-193	-3,108	822	-3,226
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	4,348	6,826	-5,519	5,962	2,412

Primary income

Income debits

Income debits totalled $192.9b during 2022, an increase of $77.5b from 2021.

Foreign investment in Australia, income debits, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	118.3	29.1	14.5	33.3	11.7	2.3	3.2	1.2	2.2	1.3
2019	117.8	28.9	14.2	30.9	12.5	3.2	3.5	1.9	2.8	0.9
2020	80.8	20.6	6.7	11.7	7.3	1.8	1.9	1.2	1.7	1.2
2021	115.4	27.8	12.0	18.3	13.9	3.9	2.2	1.4	3.4	1.4
2022	192.9	46.9	25.7	25.1	25.1	6.4	3.4	1.8	4.4	1.9

Foreign investment in Australia, income debits, by country/country group, by year

["","Total all countries","United States of America","United Kingdom","EU (excludes UK)","Japan","ASEAN","Hong Kong (SAR of China)","Canada","China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)","New Zealand"]

[["2018","2019","2020","2021","2022"],[[118.27800000000001],[117.827],[80.753],[115.38200000000001],[192.93700000000001]],[[29.052],[28.864999999999998],[20.597000000000001],[27.818000000000001],[46.881999999999998]],[[14.496],[14.211],[6.6580000000000004],[11.965999999999999],[25.731000000000002]],[[33.298999999999999],[30.859999999999999],[11.670999999999999],[18.280000000000001],[25.094999999999999]],[[11.669],[12.547000000000001],[7.2999999999999998],[13.861000000000001],[25.055]],[[2.3069999999999999],[3.2010000000000001],[1.766],[3.8730000000000002],[6.3630000000000004]],[[3.173],[3.5169999999999999],[1.9470000000000001],[2.1629999999999998],[3.379]],[[1.202],[1.8879999999999999],[1.1850000000000001],[1.3899999999999999],[1.7949999999999999]],[[2.198],[2.7509999999999999],[1.7370000000000001],[3.3730000000000002],[4.407]],[[1.2589999999999999],[0.84999999999999998],[1.1719999999999999],[1.355],[1.8999999999999999]]]

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Signage not applied

Top 10 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	118,278	117,827	80,753	115,382	192,937
United States of America	29,052	28,865	20,597	27,818	46,882
United Kingdom	14,496	14,211	6,658	11,966	25,731
Japan	11,669	12,547	7,300	13,861	25,055
Belgium	7,735	5,008	3,046	4,640	10,867
Singapore	1,907	2,823	2,080	3,501	5,322
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	2,198	2,751	1,737	3,373	4,407
Netherlands	3,276	3,510	3,514	4,721	4,381
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	3,173	3,517	1,947	2,163	3,379
Luxembourg	2,276	2,117	1,562	2,064	3,283
Ireland	1,144	1,167	1,184	2,000	2,498

Income credits

Income credits totalled $88.9b during 2022, an increase of $22.1b from 2021.

Australian investment abroad, income credits, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU (excludes UK) ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)
2018	61.4	16.2	4.6	11.8	1.1	2.6	0.9	1.3	2.1	5.4
2019	65.7	17.8	6.3	13.1	1.3	3.2	0.5	1.1	2.5	4.6
2020	59.2	16.2	4.1	5.3	1.3	3.8	0.8	1.2	1.8	2.6
2021	66.8	21.9	5.4	6.2	1.3	3.3	0.6	1.2	1.4	4.8
2022	88.9	25.4	10.0	8.1	1.7	5.2	1.2	3.3	1.6	7.0

Australian investment abroad, income credits, by country/country group, by year

["","Total all countries","United States of America","United Kingdom","EU (excludes UK)","Japan","ASEAN","Hong Kong (SAR of China)","Canada","China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)","New Zealand"]

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The EU figures in the graph above, represent EU27 (excluding UK) for all years 2018-2022.

Top 10 countries

Country	2018 ($m)	2019 ($m)	2020 ($m)	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)
Total all countries	61,405	65,703	59,160	66,788	88,869
United States of America	16,181	17,843	16,213	21,941	25,358
United Kingdom	4,576	6,250	4,091	5,417	10,033
New Zealand	5,436	4,584	2,562	4,763	6,985
Singapore	1,218	1,855	2,721	2,468	4,030
Canada	1,324	1,147	1,240	1,210	3,325
Germany	2,237	2,110	1,808	2,191	2,244
Netherlands	1,455	1,293	941	998	1,684
Japan	1,077	1,281	1,287	1,336	1,656
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	2,083	2,514	1,802	1,396	1,557
France	1,247	1,127	1,109	835	1,379

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Table 1. Foreign investment in Australia: financial account transactions by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)
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Table 2. Foreign investment in Australia: level of investment by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)
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Table 3. Foreign investment in Australia: income debits by country and country groups by type of income and year ($million)
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Table 4. Australian investment abroad: financial account transactions by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)
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Table 6. Australian investment abroad: income credits by country and country groups by type of income and year ($million)
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Table 7. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency ($million)
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Table 9. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - equity securities ($million)
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Table 10. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - debt securities ($million)
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Table 11. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - debt securities - long term ($million)
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Table 12. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - debt securities - short term ($million)
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Table 13. Portfolio investment liabilities by country of residency ($million)
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Table 14. Foreign investment in Australia: financial account transactions by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment in Australia ($million)
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Table 15. Foreign investment in Australia: level of investment at 31 December by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment in Australia ($million)
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Table 18. Foreign investment in Australia: primary income debits by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment in Australia ($million)
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Table 19. Australian investment abroad: primary income credits by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment abroad ($million)
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Changes in this issue

Revisions

Revisions include incorporation of new estimates from the latest survey and administrative data which has resulted in revisions to International Investment data back to calendar year 2018.

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Discrepancies may occur between totals in this publication and the same aggregates from other sources, and between sums of component items and totals due to rounding.

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Level of investment

Level of foreign investment in Australia

Top 20 countries

Level of Australian investment abroad

Top 20 countries

Financial account transactions

Foreign investment in Australia, direct and portfolio investment transactions

Top 10 countries

Top 10 countries

Australian investment abroad, direct and portfolio investment transactions

Top 10 countries

Top 10 countries

Primary income

Income debits

Top 10 countries

Income credits

Top 10 countries

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Table 1. Foreign investment in Australia: financial account transactions by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)

Table 2. Foreign investment in Australia: level of investment by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)

Table 3. Foreign investment in Australia: income debits by country and country groups by type of income and year ($million)

Table 4. Australian investment abroad: financial account transactions by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)

Table 5. Australian investment abroad: level of investment by country and country groups by type of investment and year ($million)

Table 6. Australian investment abroad: income credits by country and country groups by type of income and year ($million)

Table 7. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency ($million)

Table 8. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector ($million)

Table 9. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - equity securities ($million)

Table 10. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - debt securities ($million)

Table 11. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - debt securities - long term ($million)

Table 12. Portfolio investment assets by country of residency by sector - debt securities - short term ($million)

Table 13. Portfolio investment liabilities by country of residency ($million)

Table 14. Foreign investment in Australia: financial account transactions by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment in Australia ($million)

Table 15. Foreign investment in Australia: level of investment at 31 December by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment in Australia ($million)

Table 16. Australian investment abroad: financial account transactions by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment abroad ($million)

Table 17. Australian investment abroad: level of investment at 31 December by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment abroad ($million)

Table 18. Foreign investment in Australia: primary income debits by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment in Australia ($million)

Table 19. Australian investment abroad: primary income credits by industry division (ANZSIC) - direct investment abroad ($million)

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