Where does Malaysia sit in ASEAN foreign investment inflows?

Official Invest ASEAN / UNCTAD 2025 inward FDI flows across all 11 ASEAN members.

Invest ASEAN / ASEAN Secretariat, sourced to UNCTAD World Investment Report 20262025 values · checked 3 Oct 2026

SHOW ME THE DATA2025 · FDI inflows · US$ billions

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2025

1Singapore150.9FDI inflows · US$ billions

2Indonesia21.4FDI inflows · US$ billions

3Viet Nam20.4FDI inflows · US$ billions

4Thailand19.1FDI inflows · US$ billions

5Malaysia15.4FDI inflows · US$ billions

6Philippines9FDI inflows · US$ billions

7Cambodia5.1FDI inflows · US$ billions

8Lao PDR1.4FDI inflows · US$ billions

9Myanmar1.1FDI inflows · US$ billions

10Timor-Leste0.3FDI inflows · US$ billions

11Brunei Darussalam0.2FDI inflows · US$ billions

IA/Invest ASEAN / ASEAN Secretariat, sourced to UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026FDI inflows · US$ billions

SourceInvest ASEAN / ASEAN Secretariat, sourced to UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026 ↗2025 values · checked 3 Oct 2026LOW CONFIDENCE

Method & notes

IN BRIEF

Malaysia is #5/11 by inward FDI value in the official 2025 ASEAN table.

METHOD & LIMITATIONS

How the numbers were calculated

PulseKita uses the official Invest ASEAN table sourced to UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026. Country values are converted from US$ millions to US$ billions. This is inward FDI flow, not approved investment, announced greenfield projects or cumulative investment stock.

Malaysia received about US$15.4 billion of inward FDI in 2025 and ranks #5/11 in this ASEAN comparison.
Malaysia's reported 2025 inflow was 50.8% above the 2024 value in the same Invest ASEAN table.
ASEAN total inward FDI in 2025 was about US$243.9 billion.
Singapore's scale is much larger than the rest of ASEAN, so the chart should be read as a scale comparison rather than a competitiveness score.

Evidence trail

EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology

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Declared sourceFDI Inflows to ASEAN 2025
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TransformationPulseKita uses the official Invest ASEAN table sourced to UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026. Country values are converted from US$ millions to US$ billions. This is inward FDI flow, not approved investment, announced greenfield projects or cumulative investment stock.
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LOW CONFIDENCEunknown

COVERAGE2025

UNITFDI inflows · US$ billions

SOURCEunknown

UPDATED2025 values · checked 3 Oct 2026

How the numbers were calculated

Evidence trail

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