DATA - Employees of outward direct investment broken down by region

Employees of outward direct investment broken down by region Employment by host countries
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023

	Number of employees weighted by share in voting capital

Global	811,753	807,275	846,788	913,355	891,061	968,450	999,286	1,025,713	1,046,645



BRICS	79,349	76,249	85,858	136,081	107,535	97,684	97,247	91,263	81,976
CESEE	495,448	483,069	492,157	515,276	498,682	505,599	515,620	517,217	521,221



Europe	682,049	668,751	693,238	721,385	724,548	795,321	815,871	835,129	850,340
EU-27	496,618	490,596	502,431	520,264	511,263	564,812	584,615	602,916	612,297
Euro Area 19	175,114	173,168	182,290	191,624	199,826	247,102	255,661	265,221	266,099
Belgium	5,089	5,004	5,072	5,429	5,427	5,254	5,382	5,439	5,820
Germany	69,474	65,173	68,116	73,846	75,867	115,597	120,020	122,187	116,656
Estonia	756	801	841	1,356	1,228	741	866	873	828
Finland	3,049	3,185	3,324	3,436	3,865	3,833	3,942	4,348	4,974
France	9,300	9,351	10,112	9,969	10,733	11,040	8,621	10,465	10,617
Greece	1,201	1,425	1,766	1,803	2,669	2,872	3,068	3,560	3,800
Ireland	882	924	939	867	873	891	921	1,031	1,027
Italy	8,601	9,070	9,560	11,724	12,931	13,928	19,251	22,004	25,303
Latvia	1,643	2,014	1,662	1,707	1,773	1,680	1,630	1,582	1,660
Lithuania	523	613	687	632	659	1,148	1,138	1,143	1,168
Luxembourg	130	128	139	141	183	309	344	363	552
Malta	20	9	7	56	67	77	121	148	180
Netherlands	3,088	3,220	3,308	3,151	3,858	3,770	3,717	4,003	4,183
Portugal	2,065	1,847	2,633	2,648	2,796	3,138	2,772	2,794	2,953
Slovakia	43,885	45,389	45,023	44,811	45,539	46,623	47,129	46,804	46,958
Slovenia	17,423	16,759	17,966	19,762	20,860	24,592	25,083	26,314	26,280
Spain	7,979	8,247	11,124	10,277	10,491	11,605	11,651	12,156	13,047
Cyprus	7	8	9	9	7	4	5	7	92
Rest of EU
Bulgaria	26,018	20,749	20,961	21,185	21,549	20,244	21,845	20,433	22,051
Denmark	1,256	1,585	1,728	1,527	2,000	1,906	1,931	2,072	2,268
Croatia	27,857	24,326	23,629	25,234	26,717	26,454	26,800	29,612	31,887
Poland	43,127	47,681	49,473	49,282	42,705	46,994	51,769	59,923	60,694
Romania	67,750	67,650	62,997	62,802	58,595	61,464	61,004	59,787	62,138
Sweden	3,912	4,318	6,332	5,857	5,729	5,643	5,666	6,125	6,151
Czech Republic	94,563	91,128	95,143	96,931	96,561	95,849	98,626	98,431	98,554
Hungary	57,021	59,991	59,878	65,821	57,580	59,156	61,313	61,313	62,457
Rest of Europe
Albania	2,350	2,453	2,528	2,370	2,323	2,460	2,385	2,290	2,298
Belarus	3,440	3,365	3,355	3,356	3,308	3,229	2,924	1,926	2,064
Bosnia and Herzegovina	7,016	6,613	7,007	7,302	7,000	6,831	7,775	7,316	8,052
Kosovo	774	781	795	873	851	872	846	919	936
Northern Macedonia	6,363	6,994	7,725	9,419	9,813	9,195	9,004	9,643	11,655
Moldova	1,902	1,857	1,883	1,847	1,876	2,354	2,216	2,157	2,541
Montenegro	699	629	879	671	762	1,020	955	893	888
Norway	1,875	2,365	2,570	2,521	2,581	2,527	2,435	2,300	2,106
Russia	42,102	37,579	41,644	50,029	51,106	45,576	42,819	36,837	27,239
Switzerland	14,917	13,886	12,559	13,757	13,644	21,457	21,207	22,331	22,833
Serbia	18,292	18,608	21,186	22,368	20,223	23,811	24,676	23,840	26,383
Turkey	12,333	12,598	15,948	11,964	23,036	33,728	35,599	37,684	45,391
Ukraine	31,946	27,089	26,894	27,517	27,650	25,307	24,817	25,181	24,491
United Kingdom	40,411	42,448	44,948	46,737	48,897	51,959	53,442	58,746	61,015



America	61,737	66,062	76,303	108,838	80,513	92,619	98,267	102,397	107,167
Argentina	1,434	1,226	1,361	1,341	1,158	1,511	1,552	1,946	2,523
Brazil	7,272	8,091	9,187	38,883	7,709	8,522	9,458	11,122	11,998
Chile	2,572	3,267	4,034	5,432	5,368	4,650	3,813	2,595	2,715
Canada	3,019	3,592	3,967	3,966	4,476	4,669	4,827	5,057	6,008
Columbia	1,409	1,365	1,178	1,205	1,200	1,259	1,435	1,546	1,611
Mexico	4,752	5,376	6,993	7,911	8,709	9,310	11,072	12,405	10,248
Peru	138	153	143	164	176	167	280	220	227
U.S.A	38,253	41,709	48,137	48,777	50,657	61,577	65,029	66,187	70,427



Asia	48,086	50,594	50,868	65,446	69,503	61,017	64,857	67,514	68,191
China	19,455	19,254	20,354	31,657	32,214	23,401	23,552	22,654	21,481
Hong Kong	858	1,313	1,435	1,158	744	869	934	1,104	1,181
India	7,378	7,679	9,127	9,346	10,834	11,014	11,896	12,304	13,399
Indonesia	1,130	1,144	1,115	1,093	1,048	828	1,884	1,857	1,808
Japan	882	930	977	1,823	1,914	1,989	2,285	1,158	1,215
Kazakhstan	385	406	408	1,079	1,196	1,176	1,395	1,422	1,396
Malaysia	2,148	2,481	2,624	2,734	3,515	3,360	4,444	5,088	5,791
Philippines	744	752	750	836	915	892	991	990	1,070
Singapore	1,109	1,418	1,452	1,541	1,537	1,458	1,594	1,400	1,179
South Korea	2,980	2,840	3,096	3,205	3,225	3,478	4,015	4,588	4,663
Thailand	3,542	3,752	1,512	1,860	1,965	2,880	1,863	4,673	4,684
Near East	6,365	7,482	6,672	7,644	7,274	7,490	7,855	8,157	8,722
Israel	56	120	122	117	215	197	209	235	223
Saudi Arabia	783	963	853	1,366	481	444	665	939	1,392
United Arab Emirates	5,181	5,947	5,101	4,786	5,403	5,281	5,371	4,222	4,313



Africa	9,285	9,975	13,924	15,937	14,593	17,633	18,235	18,250	18,396
South africa	2,284	2,332	4,112	5,008	4,928	8,303	8,588	7,242	6,679



Oceania	10,596	11,894	12,456	1,749	1,904	1,861	2,056	2,424	2,483
Australia	10,346	11,660	12,216	1,467	1,573	1,406	1,607	1,968	2,022
New Zealand	250	234	240	233	331	455	449	456	461

Source: OeNB.

Final data.
Euro Area 19: Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the corresponding European organisations.
EU-27 (since 2020): Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the corresponding European organisations.
CESEE: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.
BRICS: Brasil, China (incl. Hongkong and Macao), India, Russia and South Africa