Profit remittances on foreign direct investment covers payments of direct investment income (debit side), which consist of income on equity (dividends, branch profits, and reinvested earnings) and income on the inter-company debt (interest). Data are in current U.S. dollars.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equador | 0 | 125.000.000 | 329.306.742 | 1.003.938.945 | 543.373.556 | 698.094.635 | 674.447.367 | 680.568.077 | 663.665.625 | 598.126.473 | 433.985.784 | 364.885.520 | 456.645.389 |
| Venezuela (República Bolivariana da) | 568.000.000 | 224.000.000 | 1.424.000.000 | 3.895.000.000 | 4.510.000.000 | 6.280.000.000 | 6.307.000.000 | 4.109.000.000 | 2.949.000.000 | 2.330.000.000 | 1.590.000.000 | 0 | |
| Algéria | 0 | 151.493.021 | 0 | 5.485.000.000 | 4.857.512.528 | 6.313.433.628 | 7.452.986.548 | 8.005.389.952 | 8.010.454.420 | 6.478.575.656 | 3.970.671.458 | 4.813.819.840 | |
| Irã | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Angola | 0 | 314.100.000 | 928.630.000 | 3.405.861.180 | 7.525.740.360 | 9.039.928.341 | 9.722.100.376 | 9.330.651.410 | 7.850.023.916 | 4.291.998.806 | 3.027.846.238 | 4.883.342.721 | 5.097.094.753 |
| Congo | 0 | 0 | 466.068.901 | 1.296.381.610 | 834.217.987 | 1.511.757.210 | 860.771.091 | 382.076.321 | -337.077.184 | 9.192.670 | -132.922.283 | 0 | |
| Gabão | 0 | 116.430.774 | 472.567.713 | 764.732.440 | 1.663.578.087 | 1.183.250.891 | 1.366.969.454 | 552.524.045 | 426.853.999 | -47.329.484 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nigéria | 0 | 134.942.749 | 2.278.801.149 | 2.602.656.980 | 19.957.777.865 | 23.070.115.718 | 22.276.561.537 | 25.257.102.625 | 19.490.755.533 | 12.793.257.984 | 8.667.882.355 | 11.651.030.955 | 14.613.380.000 |