According to the balance sheets kept by the Central Bank, over the ten years from 1986 through 1995, total direct foreign investment (DFI) from Taiwan was US $ 28.7 billion. This amounts to only 7.3 % of domestic fixed investment for the same period, and only 23 % of the total surplus of money that flowed in and out of the country.
根據中央銀行編制的國際收支帳，過去十年（七十五﹘八十四）間，國人對外直接投資額累計達到二百八十七億美元，佔國內固定投資毛額累計金額的比例，只有百分之七．三，佔同期累計超額儲蓄金額的比率，也只有百分之二十三。