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Foreign investment: every country and sector

Foreign direct investment in 2025 from every country that sent it, and into every sector.

USD 40,871 millionforeign direct investment, 2025, as first published2025Source: Secretaría de Economía, Registro Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras, flows of foreign direct investment by origin and by economic activity (SCIAN 2023), figures as first published, second quarter of 2026 files; read 5 November 2026
38.8%from the USA2025
67countries and territories with positive flows in 20252025

Every country that sent money in 2025

Foreign direct investment by country of the immediate investor, 2025, USD millions, figures as first published; the fifteen largest and the rest

In all, 67 countries and territories sent positive flows. Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland can rank high because global groups may invest through holding companies there; the country is that of the company sending the money, not of its final owner. Net withdrawals came from 4 countries, the largest Thailand, −USD 10.3 million. The ministry keeps the figures for 30 countries confidential under the Foreign Investment Law.

Source: Secretaría de Economía, Registro Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras, flows of foreign direct investment by origin and by economic activity (SCIAN 2023), figures as first published, second quarter of 2026 files; read 5 November 2026; shares and the remainder are our arithmetic.

Every sector

Foreign direct investment by sector (SCIAN 2023), 2025 and January to June 2026, USD millions, figures as first published

Manufacturing took 36% in 2025; finance and insurance, second, rose to 10,150 million in the first half of 2026 alone. A negative figure is a net withdrawal, shown as such.

Source: Secretaría de Economía, Registro Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras, flows of foreign direct investment by origin and by economic activity (SCIAN 2023), figures as first published, second quarter of 2026 files; read 5 November 2026.

Inside manufacturing

Foreign direct investment in manufacturing by subsector, 2025, USD millions, the ten largest

Transport equipment, the auto industry above all, took 46% of foreign investment in manufacturing.

Source: Secretaría de Economía, Registro Nacional de Inversiones Extranjeras, flows of foreign direct investment by origin and by economic activity (SCIAN 2023), figures as first published, second quarter of 2026 files; read 5 November 2026; shares are our arithmetic.

How to read it: these are the figures as first published; the ministry revises them for years and publishes the revised series separately. The investor country is the immediate one. A state breakdown follows the registered address of the company, which favours Mexico City (see Investment by state).

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