The Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID)

This paper presents a new Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID). MREID offers comprehensive and consistent information on international and domestic revenue, employment, and investment variables of multinational enterprises (MNEs) for 185 countries, 25 industries, and (initially) a 12-year annual time series. The database covers a range of industries, including agriculture, mining, energy, manufacturing, and services, enabling a nearly complete description of each economy’s foreign direct investment (FDI) activity. MREID currently covers the period 2010 through 2021 and is constructed using reported administrative data from Orbis.