DATA - Employees of inward direct investment broken down by region

Employees of inward direct investment broken down by region Employment by ultimate beneficiary ownder region
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023

	Number of employees weighted by share in voting capital

Global	263,339	255,201	256,837	261,622	276,745	276,728	264,360	262,268	271,142



BRICS	3,287	3,292	4,445	5,161	5,335	5,378	3,521	3,256	3,568
CESEE	2,104	2,126	2,085	2,371	2,178	2,580	2,529	3,269	3,144



Europe	229,945	223,215	224,192	229,851	242,979	242,166	230,587	229,735	232,555
EU-27	176,797	168,432	171,261	175,087	182,874	200,401	190,448	190,962	194,396
Euro Area 19	165,089	157,222	159,817	163,131	170,129	187,357	177,853	177,854	180,621
Belgium	871	890	970	911	1,251	872	1,013	997	972
Germany	116,707	109,507	111,023	114,006	117,738	123,649	120,128	119,483	115,431
Finland	2,722	2,746	3,277	3,409	3,549	3,647	3,716	3,703	3,850
France	9,714	8,457	10,147	9,428	10,593	10,091	8,688	9,325	11,143
Ireland	720	486	545	951	1,759	1,886	2,377	1,689	1,932
Italy	16,749	16,462	15,764	16,156	15,882	15,988	15,635	15,522	15,520
Luxembourg	2,900	3,741	3,879	3,711	3,912	3,979	2,671	3,029	3,763
Netherlands	10,295	10,893	9,973	10,357	11,082	8,611	9,644	9,890	12,417
Austria¹	9,684	8,935	9,623	15,964	15,061	14,437	11,231	11,596	12,645
Slovakia	171	133	189	181	142	143	154	205	208
Slovenia	71	62	114	58	81	114	81	129	56
Spain	3,408	3,198	3,241	3,411	3,484	3,340	1,949	1,752	2,091
Cyprus	611	619	680	536	596	520	472	442	445
Rest of EU	22,856	24,564	22,427	21,862	x	x	x	x	x
Denmark	1,990	1,895	1,930	1,843	2,063	2,092	1,921	1,961	2,155
Poland	16	13	9	116	233	173	163	66	312
Sweden	8,873	8,399	8,564	8,858	9,329	9,274	9,036	8,892	8,974
Czech Republic	552	655	663	878	819	1,201	1,124	1,844	1,985
Hungary	230	225	228	240	271	259	266	208	221
Rest of Europe
Liechtenstein	1,951	1,710	1,522	1,285	2,333	2,497	2,762	2,545	2,379
Norway	1,004	1,001	1,022	1,156	957	905	796	798	813
Russia	975	984	799	824	537	523	546	548	156
Switzerland	27,816	28,108	28,271	24,915	28,874	27,114	25,483	25,057	27,057
Turkey	81	79	107	118	99	155	150	131	134
United Kingdom	11,149	13,354	10,984	9,906	11,602	9,854	9,665	8,947	6,911



America	23,557	21,917	20,210	18,759	19,357	19,952	19,594	19,320	23,621
Argentina	x	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0
Brazil	268	275	403	407	401	393	379	380	336
Canada	837	829	776	831	888	874	324	279	3,187
U.S.A	21,312	19,787	18,005	16,500	16,562	17,168	17,406	17,289	18,870



Asia	9,011	9,439	11,765	12,467	13,912	14,082	12,605	11,717	13,460
China	747	790	1,087	1,356	1,405	1,492	1,377	1,280	2,015
Hong Kong	857	813	832	1,124	1,347	1,199	1,013	868	859
India	132	138	1,014	1,136	1,342	1,486	204	180	202
Japan	5,206	5,264	6,427	6,339	6,544	6,691	6,889	6,309	7,283
Near East	686	692	669	676	1,127	1,153	1,005	941	868
Israel	162	133	153	205	158	162	167	177	210
Saudi Arabia	182	164	163	160	156	146	149	88	81
United Arab Emirates	174	192	151	137	533	578	596	586	575



Africa	333	293	323	314	303	285	4	2	12



Oceania	494	337	346	231	193	244	1,570	1,494	1,492
Australia	494	337	346	219	193	244	1,570	1,494	1,492

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
¹ Cases of „round-tripping“: Austrian investors who run their enterprises in Austria through a (holding)-company located abroad.