International Investment Position, Australia: Supplementary Statistics

Latest release

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

Reference period

2025

Released

6/05/2026

Next release 5/05/2027

Release date and time

06/05/2026 11:30am AEST

Key statistics

Australia’s International Investment Position (IIP) was a liability of $638.5b at 31 December 2025, an increase of $8.9b from the end of 2024.
Foreign investment in Australia rose $151.6b to $5,116.3b.
Australian investment abroad rose $142.7b to $4,477.8b.

An article that explores the drivers for the growth of financial investment in overseas equity markets is available. For more information see Spotlight -Australia’s investment in overseas share markets.

Level of investment

Level of investment, by components, 31 December 2025
	Foreign Investment in Australia ($b)	Australian Investment Abroad ($b)
Direct Investment	1,302.3	1,217.5
Portfolio Investment - equity	980.0	1,759.6
Portfolio Investment - debt	1,747.7	541.3
Financial Derivatives	322.9	299.4
Other Investment	763.4	547.6
Reserve Assets	0.0	112.5

Level of investment, by components, 31 December 2025

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

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International Investment Position, by year (2005 - 2025)
	International Investment Position ($b)	Foreign Investment in Australia ($b)	Australian Investment Abroad ($b)
2005	529.0	1,305.4	776.4
2006	589.8	1,555.8	966.0
2007	642.4	1,758.4	1,116.0
2008	705.4	1,832.1	1,126.7
2009	760.8	1,962.5	1,201.7
2010	754.8	2,036.1	1,281.3
2011	804.7	2,114.6	1,310.0
2012	829.7	2,281.7	1,452.0
2013	839.3	2,560.5	1,721.2
2014	870.0	2,853.5	1,983.5
2015	977.0	3,109.8	2,132.8
2016	1,026.6	3,289.1	2,262.5
2017	1,051.5	3,410.2	2,358.7
2018	1,079.9	3,630.2	2,550.3
2019	999.0	3,943.5	2,944.5
2020	1,044.6	4,056.4	3,011.9
2021	831.4	4,171.5	3,340.1
2022	927.7	4,598.8	3,671.1
2023	788.6	4,634.0	3,845.5
2024	629.6	4,964.7	4,335.1
2025	638.5	5,116.3	4,477.8

International Investment Position, by year (2005 - 2025)

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

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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 (2021-2025).

Level of foreign investment in Australia, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	4,171.522197	1,055.3	677.3	767.8	258.2	156.6	135.5	71.1	76.6	91.5
2022	4,598.807837	1,107.4	965.2	743.5	265.3	182.4	146.1	75.4	102.9	79.7
2023	4,634.00861	1,162.9	878.0	791.5	272.1	179.6	153.8	81.0	100.8	79.1
2024	4,964.716307	1,352.3	835.4	892.8	289.6	180.3	182.4	87.5	107.7	70.9
2025	5,116.298787	1,361.2	840.1	965.9	286.4	189.6	172.4	85.5	107.0	86.7

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

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Top 20 countries

Level of foreign investment in Australia, Top 20 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	4,171,522	4,598,808	4,634,009	4,964,716	5,116,299
United States of America	1,055,335	1,107,360	1,162,887	1,352,342	1,361,215
United Kingdom	677,319	965,201	877,970	835,443	840,050
Belgium	393,631	359,058	378,912	385,500	437,646
Japan	258,184	265,291	272,143	289,601	286,352
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	135,489	146,089	153,850	182,387	172,359
Luxembourg	92,217	88,686	104,460	134,129	164,721
Singapore	123,311	147,429	140,255	142,906	149,968
Canada	76,552	102,881	100,807	107,745	107,009
Switzerland	74,319	75,929	74,671	86,595	89,621
Netherlands	89,192	89,725	90,717	88,383	88,738
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	91,550	79,704	79,080	70,903	86,682
New Zealand	71,073	75,352	80,971	87,503	85,521
France	43,917	52,803	55,299	71,646	70,991
Germany	51,460	53,745	55,698	89,227	64,838
Bermuda	44,862	47,944	47,157	58,353	58,520
Ireland	41,176	39,382	43,412	52,967	56,280
Norway	28,592	30,293	32,921	42,983	51,691
India	29,233	na	47,275	50,631	45,263
Virgin Islands, British	31,647	33,607	30,621	30,335	33,032
Korea, Republic of (South)	29,543	27,918	28,273	28,560	31,791

Level of Australian investment abroad

Levels of foreign investment from select countries and country groups for the past 5 years (2021-2025):

Level of Australian investment abroad, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	3,340.1	1,127.9	524.2	400.6	130.1	98.2	64.0	104.4	93.6	70.5
2022	3,671.1	1,074.2	820.8	400.3	127.5	108.8	77.5	154.2	108.8	60.0
2023	3,845.5	1,208.8	738.0	452.9	135.5	105.1	75.3	170.9	110.9	55.3
2024	4,335.1	1,569.6	695.0	478.8	169.1	105.7	75.6	205.2	131.3	59.0
2025	4,477.8	1,636.6	626.4	511.4	179.1	103.6	67.2	221.6	145.3	61.6

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

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

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Top 20 countries

Level of Australian investment abroad, Top 20 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	3,340,087	3,671,101	3,845,455	4,335,088	4,477,791
United States of America	1,127,897	1,074,167	1,208,820	1,569,635	1,636,635
United Kingdom	524,177	820,845	737,956	694,971	626,365
New Zealand	104,427	154,206	170,899	205,214	221,639
Japan	130,129	127,492	135,507	169,145	179,055
Canada	93,640	108,814	110,930	131,293	145,299
Cayman Islands	95,155	105,390	101,688	121,118	138,376
France	65,871	81,518	91,390	103,746	97,440
Ireland	50,555	49,420	67,419	77,187	87,593
Singapore	59,632	74,255	74,563	76,270	77,175
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	63,968	77,482	75,284	75,635	67,165
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	70,477	60,015	55,256	58,961	61,614
Germany	101,583	74,506	75,129	65,008	60,374
Netherlands	52,006	58,136	56,938	56,264	57,644
Luxembourg	22,475	27,500	31,792	37,857	46,110
Switzerland	35,933	37,314	40,381	36,956	45,489
Bermuda	39,379	42,511	41,934	42,565	42,362
Taiwan	20,880	17,462	23,252	35,414	39,184
Korea, Republic of (South)	27,266	27,162	29,753	29,610	35,684
Spain	13,178	13,913	17,594	21,994	28,707
Papua New Guinea	24,925	25,756	28,362	28,971	28,257

Financial account transactions

The financial account at 31 December 2025 recorded a deficit of $73.6b, following a deficit of $72.2b recorded at the end of 2024.

Foreign investment in Australia, direct and portfolio investment transactions

Direct investment recorded an inflow of $54.7b; and
Portfolio investment recorded an inflow of $173.7b

Foreign investment in Australia, Direct investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	35.9	-7.8	9.3	8.3	2.1	9.1	2.9	-0.7	9.0	0.6
2022	93.0	21.3	15.5	9.3	5.8	-3.3	5.5	1.5	23.9	-8.2
2023	51.0	40.5	21.0	-5.0	8.9	1.4	0.5	-0.2	-1.0	-0.6
2024	77.9	12.8	8.1	16.1	19.8	3.4	2.8	-0.1	1.8	0.7
2025	54.7	13.5	4.0	13.8	5.6	7.0	0.2	0.0	1.1	3.5

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

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

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Top 10 countries

Foreign investment in Australia, Direct investment transactions, Top 10 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	35,898	92,968	51,032	77,930	54,712
United States of America	-7,796	21,329	40,504	12,763	13,501
Netherlands	2,618	2,781	-12,264	4,011	7,129
Singapore	8,516	-4,097	-535	2,959	6,200
Japan	2,096	5,759	8,861	19,752	5,573
United Kingdom	9,255	15,541	20,994	8,108	3,950
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	563	-8,249	-606	681	3,500
South Africa	998	717	-480	473	2,658
Virgin Islands, British	3,264	na	830	452	2,655
Ireland	910	924	-319	5,135	1,955
France	253	60	5,521	4,331	1,403

Foreign investment in Australia, Portfolio investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	74.6	73.2	-7.0	5.4	-8.0	1.2	-6.9	0.6	-0.7	0.6
2022	138.8	41.8	35.0	35.1	7.0	6.1	-6.8	0.3	5.5	1.9
2023	83.4	-12.9	2.4	56.0	-1.6	5.2	11.8	-0.5	-2.0	0.2
2024	203.5	55.7	11.7	102.5	0.6	-0.3	3.5	3.0	2.8	-0.7
2025	173.7	-21.8	44.0	101.2	-2.1	5.2	9.3	3.0	-1.0	11.5

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

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

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Top 10 countries

Foreign investment in Australia, Portfolio investment transactions, Top 10 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	74,562	138,766	83,404	203,493	173,704
Belgium	9,303	26,488	31,966	29,498	75,806
United Kingdom	-7,040	35,012	2,356	11,658	43,961
Luxembourg	-12,648	4,058	18,247	30,443	33,670
United States of America	73,187	41,756	-12,930	55,670	-21,795
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	571	1,887	204	-684	11,459
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	-6,867	-6,779	11,807	3,508	9,298
Norway	344	4,222	514	7,740	6,507
France	6,518	6,144	-3,923	3,190	4,011
Singapore	195	4,913	2,097	-1,413	3,909
Switzerland	8,636	4,331	140	944	3,643

Australian investment abroad, direct and portfolio investment transactions

Direct investment recorded an inflow of $9.0b; and
Portfolio investment recorded an outflow of $144.0b

Australian investment abroad, Direct investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	6.6	14.6	-16.7	0.2	-0.1	1.0	1.6	4.3	-2.3	-0.2
2022	176.3	12.2	115.6	8.0	#VALUE!	5.3	-0.1	13.6	11.8	-1.7
2023	17.4	6.9	12.0	3.7	0.1	-0.1	-0.6	9.8	-1.8	-0.4
2024	17.9	17.7	8.6	5.6	0.1	2.3	-0.1	0.9	1.6	-0.7
2025	-9.0	1.3	5.6	-0.5	0.1	-1.0	-0.7	3.2	0.2	1.6

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

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

[["2021","2022","2023","2024","2025"],[[6.575681957],[176.253227],[17.43433037],[17.86786784],[-9.022746311]],[[14.64189],[12.22298],[6.850871],[17.724533],[1.33326]],[[-16.717512],[115.571147],[12.006622],[8.5696],[5.649523]],[[0.182974],[8.037735],[3.745869],[5.578409],[-0.468417]],[[-0.086511],[null],[0.122039],[0.073497],[0.143588]],[[0.962953],[5.31666],[-0.073934],[2.265616],[-1.025996]],[[1.605061],[-0.091611],[-0.617073],[-0.1407],[-0.659026]],[[4.308662],[13.581677],[9.818021],[0.892397],[3.185669]],[[-2.313321],[11.799701],[-1.848718],[1.597247],[0.200366]],[[-0.193649],[-1.708675],[-0.446927],[-0.668768],[1.574183]]]

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Top 10 countries

Australian investment abroad, Direct investment transactions, Top 10 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	6,576	176,253	17,434	17,868	-9,023
United Kingdom	-16,718	115,571	12,007	8,570	5,650
New Zealand	4,309	13,582	9,818	892	3,186
Papua New Guinea	na	2,346	na	-103	1,722
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	-194	-1,709	-447	-669	1,574
United States of America	14,642	12,223	6,851	17,725	1,333
France	na	95	na	516	-1,123
Singapore	1,596	6,310	296	3,981	-963
Germany	1,190	237	536	1,238	812
Brazil	199	426	-59	-65	782
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	1,605	-92	-617	-141	-659

Australian investment abroad, Portfolio investment transactions, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	186.8	87.8	6.9	20.7	17.2	4.8	-1.2	0.5	3.0	6.0
2022	26.8	3.6	6.2	6.2	-1.9	-2.3	4.3	4.1	4.7	1.9
2023	91.5	36.2	6.4	27.9	2.3	12.6	0.6	2.9	2.8	7.9
2024	153.4	112.5	3.5	-0.2	-5.1	-4.7	-2.8	6.9	10.4	1.4
2025	144.0	53.5	18.7	19.4	22.4	1.8	-0.2	6.2	9.7	-0.1

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

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

[["2021","2022","2023","2024","2025"],[[186.7689207],[26.78271578],[91.47555977],[153.3873853],[143.9924747]],[[87.81661395],[3.560684096],[36.21129534],[112.5457356],[53.45417583]],[[6.85353475],[6.18716853],[6.440492654],[3.541908888],[18.69695268]],[[20.6863864],[6.157606484],[27.93318202],[-0.245118569],[19.42036293]],[[17.248802],[-1.875772684],[2.266639757],[-5.109169455],[22.40717975]],[[4.765243854],[-2.269681384],[12.55924387],[-4.678152129],[1.809363764]],[[-1.221233255],[4.33372103],[0.596300624],[-2.84445469],[-0.199968513]],[[0.470817361],[4.125604566],[2.911440797],[6.877572827],[6.201597664]],[[3.027625811],[4.681906135],[2.829883889],[10.44429518],[9.691264043]],[[6.001730009],[1.935496417],[7.901922176],[1.410714185],[-0.077056132]]]

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Top 10 countries

Australian investment abroad, Portfolio investment transactions, Top 10 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	186,769	26,783	91,476	153,387	143,992
United States of America	87,817	3,561	36,211	112,546	53,454
Japan	17,249	-1,876	2,267	-5,109	22,407
United Kingdom	6,854	6,187	6,440	3,542	18,697
Cayman Islands	275	1,929	-3,403	9,636	12,555
Canada	3,028	4,682	2,830	10,444	9,691
Ireland	2,033	-6,132	8,636	1,443	6,988
New Zealand	471	4,126	2,911	6,878	6,202
Taiwan	2,570	266	na	836	-3,838
Luxembourg	-4,919	1,742	3,066	4,109	3,468
Singapore	3,754	-1,001	12,504	-5,292	3,384

Primary income

Income debits

Income debits totalled $171.7b during 2025, a decrease of $2.9b from 2024.

Foreign investment in Australia, income debits, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	116.3	28.6	12.0	18.4	13.6	3.9	1.9	1.4	1.4	3.4
2022	195.8	50.5	25.3	25.5	22.9	6.2	3.1	2.1	1.7	4.4
2023	176.2	51.4	23.0	29.8	17.7	5.0	3.3	1.6	2.1	4.1
2024	174.6	50.2	18.9	34.4	16.8	4.4	3.3	1.6	2.6	2.6
2025	171.7	48.5	14.0	38.5	13.6	5.1	3.4	1.8	2.4	2.9

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

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

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Top 10 countries

Foreign investment in Australia, income debits, Top 10 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	116,268	195,842	176,194	174,584	171,677
United States of America	28,605	50,528	51,417	50,214	48,528
Belgium	4,640	10,871	13,752	15,268	16,163
United Kingdom	12,025	25,276	22,972	18,865	14,041
Japan	13,645	22,861	17,669	16,778	13,621
Netherlands	4,826	4,278	4,543	6,008	7,878
Luxembourg	2,075	3,295	4,113	4,508	5,840
Singapore	3,498	5,426	4,138	2,886	3,474
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	1,868	3,095	3,335	3,261	3,388
Switzerland	1,619	2,119	2,419	2,647	2,916
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	3,366	4,413	4,104	2,612	2,887

Income credits

Income credits totalled $110.7b during 2025, an increase of $7.2b from 2024.

Australian investment abroad, income credits, by country/country group, by year
	Total all countries ($b)	United States of America ($b)	United Kingdom ($b)	EU ($b)	Japan ($b)	ASEAN ($b)	Hong Kong (SAR of China) ($b)	New Zealand ($b)	Canada ($b)	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) ($b)
2021	66.7	23.0	5.4	6.4	1.4	3.3	0.6	4.8	1.3	1.4
2022	88.8	26.4	10.2	8.3	1.6	4.9	1.0	6.3	3.4	1.6
2023	93.0	26.4	10.3	11.0	1.9	3.9	1.6	6.0	2.8	1.8
2024	103.5	28.2	10.7	12.9	2.1	4.3	1.3	6.9	3.9	1.4
2025	110.7	29.7	14.9	13.1	2.7	2.9	1.2	7.9	3.1	2.7

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

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

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Top 10 countries

Australian investment abroad, income credits, Top 10 countries
Country	2021 ($m)	2022 ($m)	2023 ($m)	2024 ($m)	2025 ($m)
Total all countries	66,659	88,771	93,029	103,497	110,677
United States of America	23,009	26,368	26,394	28,201	29,740
United Kingdom	5,429	10,163	10,276	10,729	14,901
New Zealand	4,768	6,291	5,983	6,920	7,856
Canada	1,256	3,406	2,781	3,869	3,085
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	1,398	1,560	1,816	1,432	2,701
France	838	1,368	2,086	2,462	2,680
Japan	1,350	1,631	1,922	2,054	2,673
Netherlands	1,004	1,681	1,960	2,204	2,333
Germany	2,121	2,112	2,569	2,535	2,130
Singapore	2,396	3,772	2,690	3,233	1,739

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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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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 2007.

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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

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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

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Top 10 countries

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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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