Firms with significant foreign ownership
Compare firms with significant foreign ownership across 62 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 62 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 0 to 43.8079 % of firms.
- •Discovery motivation: Google Trends Germany surfaced Lululemon and GitHub Trending showed globally distributed projects, motivating comparison of cross-border ownership in firms.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 8.4% of firms)
About This Statistic
Percentage of firms that have at least 10% owned by private foreign individuals, companies or organizations.
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
Percentage of firms that have at least 10% owned by private foreign individuals, companies or organizations.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabon | 43.8% of firms |
| 2 | Grenada | 30.7% of firms |
| 3 | Solomon Islands | 21.9% of firms |
| 4 | Brunei Darussalam | 19.0% of firms |
| 5 | Belgium | 16.4% of firms |
| 6 | Guatemala | 16.4% of firms |
| 7 | Mozambique | 15.8% of firms |
| 8 | Netherlands | 15.5% of firms |
| 9 | Denmark | 15.1% of firms |
| 10 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 15.0% of firms |
| 11 | Guinea | 14.2% of firms |
| 12 | Qatar | 14.2% of firms |
| 13 | Norway | 13.8% of firms |
| 14 | Comoros | 13.6% of firms |
| 15 | Liberia | 13.1% of firms |
| 16 | Switzerland | 13.1% of firms |
| 17 | Niger | 11.9% of firms |
| 18 | Finland | 11.8% of firms |
| 19 | Antigua and Barbuda | 11.7% of firms |
| 20 | Czech Republic | 11.7% of firms |
| 21 | Guinea-Bissau | 11.6% of firms |
| 22 | Zambia | 10.5% of firms |
| 23 | Sao Tome and Principe | 10.0% of firms |
| 24 | Belize | 9.3% of firms |
| 25 | Malawi | 9.3% of firms |
| 26 | Panama | 8.5% of firms |
| 27 | Saint Lucia | 8.4% of firms |
| 28 | France | 8.2% of firms |
| 29 | Fiji | 8.0% of firms |
| 30 | Dominican Republic | 6.9% of firms |
| 31 | Mauritania | 6.1% of firms |
| 32 | Saudi Arabia | 6.1% of firms |
| 33 | Burundi | 6.1% of firms |
| 34 | Mongolia | 6.1% of firms |
| 35 | Australia | 5.4% of firms |
| 36 | Maldives | 5.1% of firms |
| 37 | Nigeria | 5.0% of firms |
| 38 | Kenya | 4.8% of firms |
| 39 | Brazil | 4.7% of firms |
| 40 | Zimbabwe | 4.6% of firms |
| 41 | Austria | 4.1% of firms |
| 42 | Thailand | 4.1% of firms |
| 43 | Bolivia | 3.5% of firms |
| 44 | Uganda | 3.0% of firms |
| 45 | Djibouti | 2.9% of firms |
| 46 | Poland | 2.8% of firms |
| 47 | Chile | 2.5% of firms |
| 48 | Germany | 2.3% of firms |
| 49 | Egypt | 2.0% of firms |
| 50 | Somalia | 2.0% of firms |
| 51 | Ethiopia | 1.9% of firms |
| 52 | Lithuania | 1.8% of firms |
| 53 | Country 383 | 1.4% of firms |
| 54 | Japan | 1.0% of firms |
| 55 | Afghanistan | 0.9% of firms |
| 56 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.7% of firms |
| 57 | Albania | 0.6% of firms |
| 58 | Sri Lanka | 0.4% of firms |
| 59 | India | 0.3% of firms |
| 60 | Kiribati | 0.2% of firms |
| 61 | Kuwait | 0.0% of firms |
| 62 | Suriname | 0.0% of firms |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).
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