In this article, we take a look at the 10 best countries to invest in. If you want to check out our detailed analysis of the global investment dynamics, go directly to the 25 Best Countries to Invest In.
10. France
Investment Attractiveness Score: 83.6
France’s startup scene is starting to pick up pace, and saw a boost during the pandemic years due to government incentives. In 2019, the French president Emmanuel Macron launched a $5 billion fund to support investments in the tech sector, with $2 billion intended to help startups scale up. Another goal the government has set upon itself is to have 25 billion-dollar companies in the country by 2025.
9. South Korea
Investment Attractiveness Score: 83.8
South Korea is one of the most advanced countries in electronics. It is home to Samsung, one of the biggest electronics companies in the world. Apart from electronics, other profitable sectors in South Korea include automobile manufacturing and telecommunications.
8. Australia
Investment Attractiveness Score: 84
Australia is the largest economy in Oceania, and its 2021 FDI net inflows were 2% of its GDP, indicating Australia’s attractiveness in regards to foreign investment. Some of the most profitable sectors in the Australian economy include iron ore mining, agriculture and financial services.
7. China
Investment Attractiveness Score: 84.7
China is the second largest economy in the world behind the United States, and offers great investment opportunities, especially in its manufacturing sectors. Since 1978, the GDP growth rate in China has averaged at close to 10% per year. In 2021, its GDP grew at 8.1% and reached $18 trillion.
Urbanization, driven by an expanding middle class, is responsible for stunningly high growth in the country. Another advantage China has is its markets’ low correlation with other major world markets, making Chinese investments great diversifiers.
6. Singapore
Investment Attractiveness Score: 85
Singapore has high rankings in almost all investment indicators. It ranks first on Heritage’s economic freedom index, indicating highest levels of market freedom. It ranks second on the World Bank’s ease of doing business index, reflecting a business-friendly regulatory framework, and fifth on the aggregate logistics performance index, which indicates the strength of its infrastructure.
5. Canada
Investment Attractiveness Score: 87.2
Canada offers investors preferential market access through 14 trade agreements with 49 countries, that comprise 1.5 billion consumers. Moreover, through mutual agreements, 98% of EU tariffs are duty free for Canadian goods, and over the next seven years, another one percent of the tariffs are also expected to become duty free.
4. Germany
Investment Attractiveness Score: 87.3
Germany is one of the best countries to invest in as of 2023. It is the largest economy in Europe, and one of the top contributors to global knowledge-and-technology-intensive industries.
3. Japan
Investment Attractiveness Score: 87.4
Japan is the third largest economy in the world and the country is a leader in the electronics industry, especially in the robotics industry, with 45% of all the industrial robots in the world made in Japan. In this regard, its robotics industry is highly profitable, especially due to the Chinese market’s consumption, which imports 36% of all the Japanese robots.
2. United Kingdom
Investment Attractiveness Score: 90.3
The UK is one of the best European countries to invest in, primarily due to a high-spending consumer market, highly educated workforce, business-friendly regulatory framework and an income-durable and profitable real estate market. On top of that, the UK has a booming venture-capital-backed startup scene.
1. United States
Investment Attractiveness Score: 100
The United States is the best country to invest in as of 2023. The country is unparalleled when it comes to FDI, receiving $86 billion in investment in the first three quarters of 2022, as noted by OECD.
The venture capital market in the US is the biggest in the world, with the highest rate of startup investment in comparison to the country’s population size, and investors injected $151 billion into the venture capital market in the first three quarters of 2022, as per Financial Times.
US real estate is also one of the hottest markets in the world, with Manhattan being the top location for commercial real estate investment in the world.
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