Bilateral foreign direct investment positions between EU member states and African economies. Select a country on the map to explore where European capital is deployed across the continent, and which EU investors are most active in each African market.
Click any country to see bilateral FDI positions with Africa.
This tool uses bilateral FDI stock positions (end-of-year accumulated investment, not annual flows) from the Eurostat Balance of Payments dataset BOP_FDI6_POS, which reports EU member states' direct investment positions against counterpart economies worldwide. Data covers 2013–2024 and is denominated in millions of euros.
Coverage gaps are expected. Not all EU member states report bilateral positions for every African country; where data is absent, investment may still exist but was not disclosed. Austria and Malta do not report in this dataset at this level of detail.
Immediate counterpart, not ultimate investor. The data tracks where capital is legally domiciled, not where it ultimately originates. Countries such as the Netherlands and Luxembourg often appear large because many European companies route investment through holding structures in these jurisdictions. The underlying investment may originate from other EU economies.
Source: Eurostat, Balance of Payments — EU direct investment positions by country (BPM6), dataset BOP_FDI6_POS. Last data update: 2026. Reproduced under the Eurostat copyright policy. Analysis and presentation by Meridian17.