Major foreign investors worldwide (2007)

Major foreign investors worldwide in billions of dollars
Source: UNCTAD, 2008

World’s sixth-largest foreign investor
Dutch businesses are truly international. Dutch-based multinationals, such as Philips, Heineken, ING, AkzoNobel and Ahold, have made substantial foreign investments in the past. The total amount of Dutch investments in other countries is considerable. In late 2007, investments overseas totalled in excess of 851 billion US dollars, making the Netherlands the sixth-largest foreign investor.