Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows grew by 2 percent year-on-year (YoY) to $8.1 billion in 2015, ending a seven-year decline, the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2015 showed.

 

Meanwhile, FDI outflows from the kingdom rose by 2 percent YoY to $5.5 billion in 2015, recording the weakest growth rate in four years.

 

Net FDIs saw the first growth in seven years, edging up 0.2 percent to $2.62 billion.

 

FDI Inflows in Saudi Arabia (USD mln)

Year

Inflow

Outflow

Net flow
 

Value

Change

Value

Change

Value

Change

2007

24,319

--

(135)

--

24,454

--

2008

39,456

+62%

3,498

--

35,958

+47%

2009

36,458

(8%)

2,177

(38%)

34,281

(5%)

2010

29,233

(20%)

3,907

+79%

25,326

(26%)

2011

16,308

(44%)

3,430

(12%)

12,878

(49%)

2012

12,182

(25%)

4,402

+28%

7,780

(40%)

2013

8,865

(27%)

4,943

+12%

3,922

(50%)

2014

8,012

(10%)

5,396

+9%

2,616

(33%)

2015

8,141

+2%

5,520

+2%

2,621

+0.2%

 

The kingdom came in second, after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which led Arab countries by FDI flows at $10.98 billion.

 

Egypt took the third place with $6.9 billion FDI inflows, the report added.

 

Qatar ranked 9th on the list with $1.07 billion inflows, while Kuwait took the 15th place with $293 million.

 

Arab Countries FDI inflows – 2015

Country

 (USD mln)

Untied Arab Emirates

10,976

Saudi Arabia

8,141

Egypt

6,885

Iraq

3,469

Morocco

3,162

Lebanon

2,341

Sudan

1,737

Jordan

1,275

Qatar

1,071

Tunisia

1,002

Oman

822

Libya

726

Somalia

516

Mauretania

495

Kuwait

293

Djibouti

124

Palestine

120

Union of Comoros

5

South Sudan

(277)

Yemen

(1,191)

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