"Figure 3: FDI credits increased in 2017 from 2016 across all continents","" "UK foreign direct investment (FDI) credits by continent, 2014 to 2017","" "","" "Notes","1. Section 9 includes a list of the countries that comprise each continent in the bulletin tables. Non-EU Europe includes all European Free Trade Area (EFTA) and other European countries presented in the bulletin tables. 2. These components may not sum to total credits due to rounding." "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","2014","2015","2016","2017" "EU","19.5","18.8","24.1","32.1" "Non-EU Europe","5.7","5.8","6.2","11.6" "The Americas","25.1","19.0","11.3","26.8" "Asia","17.0","14.7","12.4","16.9" "Australasia and Oceania","3.1","2.7","2.3","4.7" "Africa","3.9","1.3","2.7","3.4"