"Figure 17: Surplus on foreign direct investment earnings in 2018 narrowed because the value of FDI debits increased by more than that of credits from 2017","" "UK FDI credits, debits and balance, 1997 to 2018, £ billion","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","FDI credits","FDI debits","Net FDI earnings" "1997","33.4","18.5","14.9" "1998","33.3","10.6","22.7" "1999","36.2","19.7","16.6" "2000","47.5","24.6","22.9" "2001","49.2","22.2","26.9" "2002","54.0","19.1","34.9" "2003","57.6","23.2","34.4" "2004","66.0","26.9","39.0" "2005","83.5","32.1","51.4" "2006","91.7","51.9","39.7" "2007","101.1","61.7","39.4" "2008","86.6","60.5","26.1" "2009","74.3","50.6","23.8" "2010","92.9","45.1","47.8" "2011","104.6","51.1","53.5" "2012","87.2","52.3","34.9" "2013","84.0","56.2","27.8" "2014","74.3","53.8","20.5" "2015","62.3","53.2","9.0" "2016","59.0","58.0","1.0" "2017","95.4","64.4","31.1" "2018","98.0","78.1","19.9"