Calenda r Year  Share in Exports  Share in Imports  Chart 2: India's share in global merchandise trade  2015  1.6%  2.4%  2016  1.6%  2.2%  2017  1.8%  2.7%  2018  2.0%  3.1%  2.0%  2019  2.0%  2.9%  1.0%  2020  1.7%  2.3%  0.0%  2021  2.4%  3.5%  4.0% 3.0%  2015  2016  2017  Share in Exports  2018  2019  2020  2021  Share in Imports  6.
Coming to capital flows, foreign direct investment (FDI 4, Chart 3), the preferred type of foreign capital, shows a healthy upward trend while foreign portfolio investment (FPI 5), given its very nature, shows a mixed trend. Overseas Investments 6 (OI) by Indian residents seem to have consolidated.