Why it matters, entity
Capital investment
The share of output turned into future capacity: buildings, machines, infrastructure.
- Depends on
- 0
- Depended on by
- 1
- Metrics
- 1
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Capital investment enables Economic output2 evidenceHypothesized
Economic output depends on Capital investment.
Mechanism
Stated, not yet evidenced here: the share of output reinvested in buildings, machines and infrastructure raises the capital stock and, with a lag, output per person (the accumulation term in growth accounting). Investment also responds to expected growth, so the direction runs both ways.
Evidence
- metricgross-capital-formation-share
- metricgdp-per-person
- Status
- hypothesized
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.60
- Stated strength
- not stated
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
No stored inputs for this entity.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
measures WLD
26.29percent of GDPperiod 2024
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 0.75
- Downstream entities
- 2
- Direct dependents
- 1
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Not part of a curated chain.
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- capex
- fixed investment
- gross capital formation
- investment
slug capital-investment, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC