Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
(investment in companies and property, rather than stocks) 

$209 billion       Total world FDI inflows in 1990
$473 billion       Total world FDI inflows in 1997
$1,118 billion    Total world FDI inflows in 2000

35 per cent       Developing country share of world FDI inflows in 1997 ($178 billion total)
17 per cent       Developing country share of world FDI inflows in 2000 ($190 billion total)
0.5 per cent      The share of the world’s 48 least developed countries (LDCs)
                        in 1999 total world FDI

20                    The number of developing countries (out of 138) accounting for 70 per cent
                        of incoming FDI in the period 1993-98

Portfolio investment (stocks and stock funds)

$50 trillion          Estimated total value of world stocks, bonds, securities and
                         other financial assets
$37 trillion          Total global equity market capitalization
40 per cent         Share of global equity market capitalization located in the United States
20 per cent         Share in continental Europe
10 per cent         Share in the emerging economies
20 per cent         Drop in value of all world equity funds in 2000
32 per cent         Drop in value of emerging market equity funds in 2000

Official Development Assistance (ODA)
(foreign aid)

$60.9 billion        Total ODA in 1992
$48.3 billion        Total ODA in 1997 (20 per cent decrease from 1992 total)
$56.4 billion        Total ODA in 1999 (16 per cent increase over 1997)
$53.1 billion        Total ODA in 2000 (6.0 per cent decrease from 1999)

56 per cent         Share of ODA in total financial flows to developing countries in 1990
18 per cent         Share of ODA in total financial flows to developing countries in 1998

$16.6 billion        Total ODA to LDCs in 1995
$12.1 billion        Total ODA to LDCs in 1998

84 per cent         Share of ODA in all incoming financial flows to LDCs in 1998
0.33 per cent      Average per cent of gross national product (GNP) contributed
                         as ODA by donor countries in 1992
0.22 per cent      Average per cent of GNP contributed as ODA by donor countries in 2000
0.7 per cent        Per cent of GNP widely agreed as an ODA target for donor countries

4                        Number of donors that have consistently met the 0.7 per cent target
                          (Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden;
                          Luxembourg met the target in 2000)

Debt of least developed countries (LDCs)

$121.2 billion          Total external debt stock of LDCs in 1990
$150.4 billion          Total external debt stock of LDCs in 1998
                             (25 per cent increase over 1990)
92 per cent             Debt stock as share of total LDC gross national product in 1990
101 per cent           Debt stock as share of total LDC gross national product in 1998
$4.4 billion             Total debt payments by LDCs in 1998

Trade

$1.9 trillion            Total world exports in 1985
$6.3 trillion            Total world exports in 2000
26 per cent            Share of developing countries in world exports in 1985 ($490 billion total)
33 per cent            Share of developing countries in world exports in 2000 ($2.1 trillion total)
$24 billion              Total LDC exports in 1985
$27 billion              Total LDC exports in 1999
$100 billion+           Estimated annual cost of trade barriers in the North
                             to the economies of the South