Internationalisation is at the heart of the North East economy. This section contains up to date official statistics on this topic. Included is information about trade in goods and services; exporters and importers; and foreign direct investment in the North East. In the future, we intend to add data about topics such as freight transport; international migration; employment by nationality; and international student numbers.
For some aspects of internationalisation, the official statistics are limited. This section, therefore, includes analysis of experimental and one-off datasets.
It includes links to maps and analysis from a North East LEP project in 2023. In conjunction with Glass AI, this used Artificial intelligence to identify the proportion of firms in the region with international links.
The section also includes information from ONS experimental subnational 2021 estimates of foreign direct investment. In addition, it features unofficial investment data up to and including 2022/23 from Invest North East England, the strategic inward investment agency for the North East Combined Authority.