Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) stocks by industry measure the total level of direct investment in the reporting economy at the end of the year, by industry sector.It is the value of foreign investors’ equity in and net loans received by enterprises of a specific industry resident in the reporting economy, at the end of the year. The indicator is shown for a restricted list of nine major ISIC4 industries while the source database includes inward FDI stocks for 84 ISIC4 industries enabling the identification of the most attractive industry sectors for FDI in each OECD economy. Resident Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) are excluded for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Portugal. SPEs do not exist or are not significant in Australia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey and the United States. This indicator is measured in USD millions and as a share of total inward FDI stocks.