Last year’s FDI rose by 35% year-on-year and Q4 results were up by 53.9% over the same period of the previous year.
According to preliminary statistics, the foreign direct investments (FDI) into Georgia of 2014 amounts to $1.27 billion, the highest annual amount since 2007 ($2 billion) according to GeoStat, the National Statistics Office. Last year’s FDI rose by 35% compared to 2013, when FDI totaled $941 million. As stated by the report, 21% of this $1.27 billion were reinvestments.
The leading investor countries to Georgia are the Netherlands ($331 million), Azerbaijan ($302 million), China ($195 million), UK ($114 million) and Luxembourg ($85 million). From last year’s FDI, $343 million was allocated to the transport and communications sector, while $295 million was put into construction and $174 million in manufacturing sectors.
