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Table 4 Top 10 Recipient Countries for FDI, 2003 – 2015
Recipient Capex
Rank Projects
Country (R billion)

1 China 17 054 15 104
2 United States 16 247 8 460
3 UK 11 691 5 519

4 India 9 807 5 987
5 Germany 8 409 2 274

6 France 5 964 1 801
7 Russia 5 071 3 830

8 Spain 4 879 2 133
9 UAE 4 139 1 668
10 Brazil 4 060 4 154

TOTAL 182 509 51 111

Source: FDI Intelligence, 2016
The top global destination cities for FDI were London, Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai,
Hong Kong and Beijing.

The share of global FDI by sectors is shown in the figures below. In terms of FDI projects,
most projects were in the following sectors:
• Software and IT services accounting for 11% of projects PROVINCIAL OUTLOOK NATIONAL OUTLOOK GLOBAL OUTLOOK GAP HOUSING INVESTOR NARRATIVE SPOT THE OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO INSIGHTS KHULISA NEWSLETTER ELECTRIC VEHICLES ENERGY SECURITY LOOKING AT GDP
• Business services accounting for 7% of projects
• Financial services accounting for 9% of projects
• Textiles accounting for 7% of projects
In terms of FDI by capex, most FDI went to the following sectors:
• Coal, oil and natural gas accounting for 17% of capex
• Real estate accounting for 10% of capex
• Metals accounting for 8% of capex
• Alternative and renewable energy accounting for 6% of capex

Figure 22 Top 10 Global Sectors for FDI Figure 23 Top 10 Global Sectors for
by Projects, 2003 – 2015 Capex, 2003 – 2015
Software & Business
IT services Services Coal, Oil and
11% 7% Natural Gas
Other Other 17%
sectors sectors
39% Financial 33%
Services Real Estate
9% 10%
Textiles
7% Metals
8%
Industrial Transportation
Machinery, 3% Alternative/
Automative Food & Equipment Food & Renewable
components Tobacco & Tools Tobacco energy
4% 5% 5% 3% Financial 6%
Transportation Consumer Communications Communications Chemicals Services Automative
4% Products 5% 5% 5% OEM
4% 5% 5%
Source: FDI Intelligence, 2016

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