In brief
Singapore’s corporate sector reported a stock of $1.85 trillion SGD ($1.45 trillion USD) in direct investment abroad at end‑2025, according to the Singapore Department of Statistics. Direct equity accounts for 94.3% of the stock while net inter‑company lending makes up 5.7%. The top three destination economies—China mainland, the United Kingdom and India—attract 64.8% of the outflow.
Singapore’s corporate sector disclosed that it had a total of 1.85 trillion Singapore dollars (about 1.45 trillion U.S. dollars) in direct investment abroad by the end of 2025, according to a release from the Singapore Department of Statistics cited by Xinhua.
The figure represents an 11.8 percent increase year‑on‑year, bringing the stock of corporate direct investment abroad (DIA) to the highest level in this period.
Direct equity investment makes up 94.3 percent of the total DIA stock, while net inter‑company lending accounts for the remaining 5.7 percent, the department said in a statement.
Collectively, the top ten destination economies attracted 64.8 percent of Singapore’s DIA stock at year‑end 2025, with the Chinese mainland, the United Kingdom and India being the leading recipients.