Azerbaijan, UK, Netherlands – Georgia’s top investors in 2015

Georgia attracted $1.564 billion in Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in 2015.

Today the National Statistics Office (Geostat) published adjusted figures of FDIs coming into Georgia in 2015.

The adjusted figures showed FDI’s last year were 11 percent lower compared to the same data of 2014.

The top three countries that invested the most in Georgia last year were Azerbaijan (35 percent of total FDIs), United Kingdom (25 percent) and the Netherlands (10 percent).

Other major investor countries in 2015 were:

• Luxembourg - seven percent;
• Turkey – five percent;
• China - four percent;
• Russia – three percent;
• International organisations – three percent;
• Other countries – nine percent.

Meanwhile three main sectors of the Georgian economy received 58 percent of all FDIs.

The largest share of FDIs ($585 million) went to the transport and communications sector, followed by the financial sector ($179 million) then the health and social work sector ($140 million).

The total FDIs by major economic sectors were divided the following way:

• Financial sector – 11 percent;
• Health and social work – nine percent;
• Hotels and restaurants – nine percent;
• Energy – eight percent;
• Construction – seven percent;
• Real estate – six percent;
• Mining – six percent;
• Other sectors – seven percent.