"Figure 12: In most years the UK has a larger rate of return on its foreign direct investment (FDI) assets than the rest of the world has on its FDI in the UK","" " UK foreign direct investment assets and liabilities rates of return (RoR), 2004 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","%" "","" "","Assets RoR ","Liabilities RoR" "2004","7.6","5.3" "2005","9.1","5.3" "2006","9.4","7.1" "2007","9.4","7.9" "2008","6.7","7.0" "2009","5.5","5.5" "2010","7.1","4.9" "2011","7.7","5.3" "2012","6.3","4.7" "2013","5.9","4.5" "2014","5.3","4.2" "2015","4.5","4.0" "2016","3.9","4.0" "2017","5.7","4.0" "2018","5.8","4.4" "2019","5.0","3.5"