This paper researches the impact of corruption and democratic status on foreign direct investment inflows. The sample includes annual data for 98 high and low-income countries from the years 1995-2019. It was found that in high-income countries, rule of law, control of corruption, and government integrity were significant and positively correlated to FDI inflows. However, they were insignificant in low-income countries. Alternatively, democratic status was significant and positively correlated to foreign direct investment in low-income countries, but almost entirely insignificant in high-income countries.