Global Best to Invest 2025
May 5, 2025
When Kearney in April released its global 2025 Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index, Singapore’s drop from No. 12 to No. 15 was noted, based in part on its reliance on trade in a sudden era of nationalism. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom finished 1-2-3.
Then again: Singapore is a mere city-state, duking it out with the likes of massive countries such as the powers above as well as India, China and South Korea.
When Site Selection examined Singapore through the annual Global Best to Invest Top Metros prism of our proprietary corporate project data for the past five years; the Kearney 2024 Global Cities Report; Mori Foundation’s Global Power City Index 2024; IMD’s Smart City Index 2024; and startup ecosystem rankings from Startup Genome and Startup Blink, the city-state was where you’d expect to find it: No. 1. Next come Shanghai, Seoul, Barcelona and Dubai. The scorecard looked only at metros outside the United States.