Direct Investments from top 50 countries into India 2014-20

After the opening up of the economy in 1991, India's investments climate has improved considerably.

This is primarily due to the simplicity of FDI requirements across sectors of the economy. India is now a member of the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) Top 100 Group. In India, FDI inflows stood at 45.15 bn in 2014-15 and have risen steadily since then. In addition, overall FDI inflows increased by 55%, from US 231.37 billion in 2008-14 to 358.29 billion in 2014-20, and FDI inflows also increased by 57% from 160.46 billion in 2008-14 to 252.42 billion (2014-20).

India's FDI inflows increased to 55.56 billion in 2015-16, 60.22 billion in 2016-17, 60.97 billion in 2017-18, and the country posted its highest FDI inflows ever of 62.00 billion (provisional figure) during the last 2018-19 financial year. In addition, India has attracted over 74 billion industry-wide investments during 2019-2020.

In the last 20 years (April 2000-June 2020), the country's total FDI inflows have been 693.3 billion, while the total FDI inflows earned in the last 5 years (April 2014-September 2019) have been $319 billion, which amounts to almost 50 percent of the total FDI inflows in the last 20 years.

Total FDI inflows of 35.73 billion were earned during FY 2020-21, which is the highest ever for the first five months of a financial year and 13 percent higher compared to the first five months of 2019-20 (31.60 bn) and FDI inflows earned during FY 2020-21 are US 27.10 billion, which is also the highest ever for the first five months of a financial year and 16 percent higher compared to the first.