DATASETS

FOREIGN RETURNS OF NATIONS DATASET

"Exportweltmeister: Germany's Foreign Investment Returns in International Comparison" (Hünnekes, Konradt, Schularick, Trebesch, Wingenbach)

Returns on foreign investments across countries, by asset class

13 advanced economies from original paper, 1970-2020
157 countries with available IMF BOP/IIP data, 1971-2023

Dataset (version: March 2025)

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Average returns across countries, 1975-2023

Notes: The outer bars correspond to average nominal returns on foreign assets between 1975-2023, ranked by country. Inner bars refer to average real returns, deflated using national consumer prices. Data for Denmark and Portugal starts in 1981 and 1993, respectively. No data is available for Japan.

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