Eastern Europe includes Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
Southern Europe includes Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain.
Northern Europe includes Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden.
The source used transaction-based data to calculate FDI values. These figures vary from official Chinese outbound FDI data, but might be more representative for actual investment flows.
Figures for earlier years have been taken from previous publications.
Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding.
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Distribution of completed Chinese FDI in EU 2017-2023, by region
In 2023, about **** percent of direct investment (FDI) from China to the 27 EU countries and the United Kingdom went to the UK, down from **** percent in the previous year. In 2023, FDI from China in Europe was concentrated in **.
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