Cabinet: FDI growth in 2025 reflects Saudi economy's attractiveness

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz

The Saudi Cabinet, in a session chaired by King Salman bin Abdulaziz in Riyadh today, Oct. 20, said that the 33.5% increase in foreign direct investment in the Kingdom in 2025 compared to a year earlier reflects the Saudi economy's attractiveness and promising future prospects.

This reflects the effectiveness of the economic and structural reforms implemented in recent years under Saudi Vision 2030, the state-run SPA news agency reported.

The Cabinet also approved the Designs Law, the Integrated Circuits Layout-Designs Law, the New Plant Varieties Law, the Patents Law, and the Utility Models Law.

It also approved extending the Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program until the end of 2032.

According to Argaam’s data, total foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Saudi Arabia reached SAR 159.1 billion in 2025.

Saudi Arabia ranked 13th globally among the 20 largest economies receiving FDI in 2025, advancing four places in the ranking of the world’s largest FDI recipient economies, according to the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026.