India leads regional inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in South Asia accounting for 34 billion US dollars during 2014. According to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, the upward trend is likely to continue this year also. The report placed China as the world's largest FDI recipient. The UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2015 says that the FDI inflows to India surged by 22 per cent to about 34 billion US dollars and improved its position to 9th top host country for FDI in 2014. FDI inflows to South Asia rose to 41 billion US dollars in 2014. The top five recipients in South Asia of FDI inflows were India, followed by Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.