CONFRENCE DES NATIONS UNIES SUR

LE COMMERCE ET LE DVELOPPEMENT

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE

ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

World Investment Report 2013

Global Value Chains: Investment and Trade for Development

Brazil

Country fact sheet:

Foreign direct investment (FDI) overview, selected years

(Millions of dollars and percentages)

FDI flows

2005-2007

2009

2010

2011

2012

(Pre-crisis
annual average)

Brazil

Inward
22 824
Outward
12 595
Memorandum
Argentina
Inward
5 759
Outward
1 751
Mexico
Inward
25 374
Outward
6 830
South America
Inward
53 064
Outward
20 639
Latin America and the Caribbean
Inward
116 092
Outward
68 502
Developing economies
Inward
452 023
Outward
238 224
World
Inward
1 490 966
Outward
1 534 429

as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation

2005-2007
2010
2011
2012
(Pre-crisis
annual average)

25 949
- 10 084

48 506
11 588

66 660
- 1 029

65 272
- 2 821

12.3
6.8

11.6
2.8

14.0
- 0.2

15.1
- 0.7

4 017
712

7 848
965

9 882
1 488

12 551
1 089

11.3
3.4

9.6
1.2

9.8
1.5

12.3
1.1

16 561
8 464

21 372
15 045

21 504
12 139

12 659
25 597

12.9
3.5

10.5
7.4

9.3
5.2

5.2
10.5

56 719
3 920

92 134
30 948

129 423
27 993

144 402
21 533

13.9
5.6

12.2
4.1

15.1
3.3

16.8
2.5

150 150
55 512

189 855
119 236

249 432
105 154

243 861
103 045

18.6
11.3

18.9
12.0

21.8
9.3

20.9
9.0

530 289
273 401

637 063
413 220

735 212
422 067

702 826
426 082

13.3
7.1

10.2
6.7

10.1
5.9

9.0
5.5

1 216 475
1 149 776

1 408 537
1 504 928

1 651 511
1 678 035

1 350 926
1 390 956

13.3
13.8

10.2
10.9

10.6
10.8

8.3
8.6

1995

2009

2010

2011

2012

Inward
47 887
Outward
44 474
Memorandum
Argentina
Inward
27 991
Outward
10 696
Mexico
Inward
41 130
Outward
4 181
South America
Inward
127 964
Outward
63 534
Latin America and the Caribbean
Inward
187 086
Outward
88 346
Developing economies
Inward
850 536
Outward
330 343
World
Inward
3 441 326
Outward
3 791 296

400 808
164 523

682 346
188 637

695 103
202 586

702 208
232 848

6.2
5.8

31.8
8.8

28.1
8.2

31.2
10.3

79 871
29 536

88 458
30 328

98 106
31 891

110 704
32 914

10.8
4.1

23.9
8.2

21.9
7.1

23.2
6.9

277 898
81 216

330 161
104 301

302 309
112 088

314 968
137 684

13.1
1.3

32.0
10.1

26.2
9.7

26.8
11.7

793 974
282 733

1 134 150
323 605

1 197 479
367 359

1 290 092
420 453

9.2
4.5

30.6
8.7

28.7
8.8

31.3
10.2

1 514 471
760 990

1 983 509
898 145

2 118 301
1 015 387

2 310 630
1 150 092

10.4
5.0

39.7
18.2

37.7
18.3

41.2
20.7

5 295 644
2 980 331

6 515 703
3 484 157

6 896 963
3 928 686

7 744 523
4 459 356

14.4
5.7

31.2
17.0

28.6
16.6

30.4
17.9

18 311 537
19 518 956

20 380 267
21 130 046

20 873 498
21 441 873

22 812 680
23 592 739

11.5
12.7

32.1
33.6

29.8
30.9

32.2
33.6

FDI stocks
Brazil

Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2013 ; http://unctad.org/wir or http://unctad.org/fdistatistics.

as a percentage of gross domestic product

1995
2010
2011
2012

Cross-border merger and acquisition overview, 2005-2007avg, 20102012

(Millions of dollars)
2005-2007

Region/economy

Sales (net)
2010
2011

2012

(Pre-crisis
annual average)

Brazil
Memorandum
Argentina
Mexico
South America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Developing economies
World

2005-2007

Purchases (net)
2010
2011

2012

(Pre-crisis
annual average)

4 056

8 857

15 119

16 359

10 640

8 465

5 541

7 427

526
2 497
8 876
15 993
84 448
703 433

3 458
7 990
17 045
28 414
82 378
344 029

- 268
1 231
15 578
20 098
88 519
555 173

430
330
18 571
21 070
49 342
308 055

185
8 004
11 863
26 091
109 477
703 433

499
2 892
12 900
15 831
98 149
344 029

102
4 274
10 321
18 750
108 296
555 173

2 799
5 830
23 305
32 647
113 055
308 055

As source
2010
2011

2012

Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2013 ; http://unctad.org/wir or http://unctad.org/fdistatistics.

Greenfield investment project overview, 2005-2007avg, 20102012

(Millions of dollars)
Region/economy

2005-2007

As destination
2010
2011

2012

(Pre-crisis
annual average)

Brazil
Memorandum
Argentina
Mexico
South America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Developing economies
World

2005-2007
(Pre-crisis
annual average)

22 801

44 010

62 950

26 373

3 578

10 413

4 613

3 186

4 738
12 339
50 328
70 783
496 089
852 482

7 112
14 679
92 510
120 116
544 258
901 152

12 000
18 694
104 518
138 531
559 722
913 828

6 004
11 838
50 010
65 728
346 088
612 155

531
1 518
10 512
12 817
210 706
852 482

1 284
2 101
18 692
21 736
238 178
901 152

905
9 498
10 517
20 773
252 483
913 828

1 369
2 147
6 555
9 074
197 806
612 155

Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2013 ; http://unctad.org/wir or http://unctad.org/fdistatistics.

Presence in the world's top 100 non-financial TNCs, ranked by foreign assets, 2012
(Millions of dollars and number of employees)
Corporation

Vale SA

Ranking by:
Foreign
TNI a
assets

Industry

Mining & quarrying

61

89

Foreign
Assets

Sales

45 721

38 326

Employment
15 680

TNI a
(Per cent)
47

Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2013 ; http://unctad.org/wir or http://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

Presence in the top 100 non-financial TNCs from developing countries, ranked by foreign assets,
2011
(Millions of dollars and number of employees)
Corporation

Vale SA
Petroleo Brasileiro SA
Gerdau SA
JBS SA

Industry

Mining & quarrying

Petroleum expl./ref./distr.
Metal and metal products
Food, beverages and tobacco

Ranking by:
Foreign
TNI a
assets
4
18
29
54

63
97
55
51

Foreign
Assets

Sales

Employment

TNI a
(Per cent)

48 045
19 604
15 415
8 754

49 475
13 184
12 075
28 019

17 522
8 033
19 304
76 132

47
8
53
55

Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2013 ; http://unctad.org/wir or http://unctad.org/fdistatistics.

a

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.

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The sources for all this information are the World Investment Report 2013 and UNCTAD databases on FDI-TNC-GVC Information System.
These databases can be found at the following URL:
http://unctad.org/fdistatistics
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