EU-25 Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil, Russia, India and China - Issue number 111/2007 - Products Statistics in Focus

In 2005, the EU-25 invested EUR 25 bn in the BRIC countries, which is 5% down on 2004 (EUR 27 bn). The share of BRIC to extra-EU-25 outflows dropped from 20 % in 2004 to 15 % in 2005. For the same year, China and Russia were the main destinations of EU-25 FDI outflows to the BRIC countries. EU FDI in the BRIC countries was more profitable than FDI in extra-EU as a whole for 2001-2004.