Mexico falls from PwC’s list of top 10 countries to invest in

Mexico has fallen retired of the apical 10 successful the consulting steadfast PwC’s latest planetary concern ranking, aft climbing to a necktie for eighth place past year.

The 29th PwC Global CEO Survey, unveiled astatine the World Economic Forum taking spot successful Davos, Switzerland, this week, gathered responses from 4,454 CEOs crossed 95 countries, including Mexico, betwixt Sept. 30 and Nov. 10, 2025. 

The United States has really go much fashionable among planetary CEOs arsenic a destination for planetary investment, contempt Trump’s interventions, acc to PwC’s CEO survey. pic.twitter.com/iRicsqoVWT

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The CEOs’ input revealed a much somber temper than past year. A noteworthy 30% of respondents were little optimistic astir concern opportunities successful 2026. Just implicit fractional of CEOs program to marque planetary investments successful 2026, astatine 51%. 

They were asked which 3 countries oregon territories, excluding their own, would person the top proportionality of superior expenditure from their institution successful the adjacent 12 months.

The United States came retired connected apical for capitalist preference, with 35% of CEOs placing it successful the apical 3 countries that volition person the highest proportionality of their investment. 

Here are PwC’s apical 10 planetary concern destinations: 

For 2026 

1. United States: 35%
2. Germany: 13%
3. India: 13%
4. United Kingdom: 13%
5. China: 11%
6. United Arab Emirates: 8%
7. Saudi Arabia: 7%
8. France: 7%
9. Spain: 6%
10. Singapore: 6%

For comparison, present are past year’s rankings:

For 2025

1. United States: 30%
2. United Kingdom: 14%
3. Germany: 12%
4. China: 9%
5. India: 7%
6. France: 7%
7. United Arab Emirates: 6%
8. Australia: 5%
9. Singapore: 5%
10. Mexico: 5%

While the launch of the Plan México nationalist concern strategy successful January 2025 was expected to pull much investors to Mexico, the instauration of U.S. tariffs connected Mexico and different countries drove up capitalist uncertainty successful 2025. 

In 2026, CEOs are much acrophobic astir the imaginable interaction of tariffs, arsenic 20% of CEOs thought their companies would beryllium highly exposed to the hazard of important losses owed to tariffs implicit the adjacent year. 

The 3 superior concerns for participants were economical volatility (31%), technological disruption (24%) and geopolitics (23%). Almost one-third said that geopolitical uncertainty is making them little apt to marque ample caller investments.

Many CEOs viewed reinvention arsenic a maturation strategy, with 42% of respondents saying their institution had begun competing successful caller sectors implicit the past 5 years. Meanwhile, 44% expect to put extracurricular their existent industry, with exertion being the astir charismatic sector.

With reports from El Economista