The bar chart outlines the direct foreign investment made by India and China from 2014 to 2019.
Overall, capital expenditures for both countries varied throughout the 6-year interval, with both China’s and India’s investments increasing and decreasing sporadically. Moreover, it is also evident that China’s investments were of greater value than India’s in the given period.
Initially, China’s direct investments were valued at around 80 billion dollars, the figure declined and hovered during the next three years and had a sharp increase in 2018, reaching over 100 billion dollars before plummeting close to 40 billion dollars in 2019. India also followed this trend, starting at 20 billion dollars before fluctuating its investments in the coming years, peaking in 2016 at over 60 billion dollars and dropping close to its initial value at the end of the period.
It is also clear that China’s investments are much larger in value, with annual investments almost double of India’s in 2018, with the only exception being in 2015, when India overtook China in foreign investments. Interestingly, near the end of the timeframe, both countries have their lowest investments in comparison to the other years.