Metrics matching “Balance of payments”

4 metrics. Each one has a world map, a chart over time and a free download.

Foreign direct investment

Which countries attract the most foreign investment?

Malta 51.7%
Suriname 45.4%

World 1.4% · 2025 184 countries

Current account balance

Which countries sell more to the world than they buy?

Macao 39.6%
Marshall Islands 33.8%

World 0.5% · 2025 194 countries

Remittances

Where does money sent home from abroad matter most?

Tajikistan 47.2%
Tonga 39.4%

World 0.8% · 2024 162 countries

Foreign reserves

Which countries hold the biggest buffer of reserves?

Russia 16.8
Algeria 16.5

World 8.8 · 2024 151 countries

About the author

Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.