The given bar chart outlines the amount of direct foreign investment for India and China in 2014 to 2019.
Overall, the capital expenditure for both countries varied throughout the 6 year interval, with both China 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 are valued 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 plutmmeting close to 40 billion dollars in 2019. India also followed this trend, starting off 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 being doubled of India’s in 2018, with the only exception being 2015, when India overtook China in foreign investments. Interestingly, near the end of the timeframe, both countries have it’s lowest investments in comparison to the other years.