U.S., Singapore accounted for one-third of FDI throughout FY25: RBI census

The U.S. and Singapore collectively accounted for over one-third of the FDI in India throughout 2024-25, based on the Reserve Bank’s census on overseas liabilities and property of Indian direct funding entities.

The Central financial institution on Wednesday (29, 2025) launched the provisional outcomes of the 2024-25 spherical of the annual census on overseas liabilities and property (FLA) protecting cross-border liabilities and property of the Indian entities.

Out of the 45,702 entities which responded within the newest census, 41,517 reported overseas direct funding (FDI) and/or abroad direct funding (ODI) of their stability sheet for March 2025, RBI stated.

Of these entities, 33,637 had additionally reported within the earlier census spherical, and seven,880 have newly reported within the present spherical.

Over three-fourths of the businesses that reported inward direct funding have been subsidiaries of overseas corporations (single overseas investor holding greater than 50% of whole fairness).

“The United States and Singapore collectively accounted for over one-third of the FDI in India; different high sources included Mauritius, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands,” it stated.

In the case of ODI, Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom have been the highest locations.

Of the whole FDI throughout 2024-25 was ₹68,75,931 crore, the share of the U.S. was 20%, adopted by Singapore (14.3%), Mauritius (13.3%), the U.Okay. (11.2%) and the Netherlands (9%).

The manufacturing sector accounted for the best share of whole FDI fairness capital at market worth (48.4%) in addition to at face worth (37.8%). The providers sector was the second-highest shareholder in whole FDI fairness capital at market worth.

The FDI was at ₹61,88,243 crore within the previous 12 months.

In case of outward direct funding (₹11,66,790 crore), the share of Singapore was 22.2%, adopted by the U.S. (15.4%), the U.Okay. (12.8%) and the Netherlands (9.6%) throughout 2024-25.

The RBI additional stated greater than 97% of the responding DI entities have been unlisted in March 2025, and that captured a lot of the FDI fairness capital in India.

Non-financial corporations held 90.5% of the FDI fairness at face worth.

In phrases of market worth, the expansion of ODI (17.9%) outpaced the expansion of FDI (11.1%) in India, in rupee phrases, throughout 2024-25. As a consequence, the ratio of inward to outward DI stood at 5.9 instances in March 2025 as in comparison with 6.3 instances a 12 months in the past.