U.S. foreign direct investments in the Middle East 2023

In 2023, the U.S. investments made in the Middle East were valued at approximately 80.53 billion U.S. dollars. The total direct position of the United States abroad amounted to 6.68 trillion U.S. dollars in that year.

Foreign direct investment position of the United States in the Middle East from 2000 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars, on a historical-cost basis)

Characteristic	Direct investments in billion U.S. dollars
2023	80.53
2022	76.09
2021	78.44
2020	80.79
2019	81.39
2018	76.95
2017	74.51
2016	49.12
2015	49.8
2014	55.47
2013	45.4
2012	40.31
2011	35.95
2010	34.43
2009	33.78
2008	31.29
2007	28.45
2006	24.21
2005	21.12
2004	18.96
2003	16.89
2002	15.16
2001	13.21
2000	10.86

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Release date

August 2024

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2000 to 2023

Supplementary notes

Values have been rounded.

In accounting, historical cost is the original monetary value of an economic item. Historical cost is based on the stable measuring unit assumption. In some circumstances, assets and liabilities may be shown at their historical cost, as if there had been no change in value since the date of acquisition.
U.S. direct investment abroad is defined as ownership by a U.S. investor of at least 10 percent of a foreign business. The direct investor is known as a U.S. parent, and the U.S.-owned foreign business is known as a foreign affiliate. International transactions statistics cover the foreign affiliates’ transactions with their U.S. parents, so these statistics focus on the U.S. parent’s share, or interest, in its affiliates rather than on the affiliates’ overall size or level of operations. The major items include capital flows, which measure the funds that U.S. parents provide to their foreign affiliates, and income, which measures the return on those funds. Direct investment position statistics are stocks and are cumulative; they measure the total outstanding level of U.S. direct investment abroad at year end.

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