Foreign Direct Investment: From Japan to Switzerland

Foreign Direct Investment: From Japan to Switzerland (2015)

Japanese capital stock in Switzerland soared in 2015 to CHF 5,649 million.
Nevertheless, the number of Japanese staff in Switzerland slightly decreased in 2015 to a total of 9,388.

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Capital Stock (in Mn.)	937	890	625	630	754	2431	3395	3213	3909	5649
% of Asia	28.09	28.15	11.25	12.75	11.61	14.83	34.81	29.83	31.54	58.17
% of World	0.29	0.22	0.13	0.12	0.13	0.38	0.50	0.46	0.51	0.68
Japanese staff in Switzerland	4323	4501	5118	5597	6305	7771	8665	9919	9801	9388

Since the entry into force of the Japanese - Swiss Free Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement in late 2009, the Japanese FDI in Switzerland strongly increased.

The largest foreign investors in Switzerland are the European Union (78%) and the United States (11.7%). Japan accounts for 0.7% of total FDI in Switzerland and represents more than half of the Asian, African and Oceanian FDI.

Source: Swiss National Bank
Update: December, 2016