The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its latest report in the Foreign Direct Investment report series announced a 5% growth in Foreign Direct Investment in Iran over the past year.
Statistics published by UNCTAD show that in 2022, Iran managed to attract one billion and $500 million in foreign direct investment.
By 2021, Iran had attracted more than 1 billion and 425 million dollars of foreign direct investment, which means that the amount of foreign direct investment of Iran in 2022 increased by 75 million dollars compared to the previous year.
By 2021, the amount of foreign direct investment in Iran had increased by 6%. From 2018 to 2020, the attraction of foreign direct investment to Iran has seen a downward trend, but during the period of activity of the 13th government in 2021 and 2022, this trend has reversed and we have witnessed the growth foreign direct investment in the country.
In 2017, Iran attracted more than 5 billion 19 million dollars of foreign direct investments, and this figure increased to 2 billion 373 million dollars in 2018, 1 billion 508 million dollars in 2019 and 1 billion in 2020. decreased by $342 million.
But in 2021, the amount of foreign direct investment increased to one billion and 425 million dollars, and in 2022 to one billion and 500 million dollars.
According to this report, in 2022, Iran also invested $100 million in foreign direct investment in other countries, this figure was announced at $82 million for the previous year.
Iran ranks 79th in terms of attracting foreign capital in the world
5% growth of foreign direct investment in Iran in 2022, while the amount of foreign investment in the world decreased by 13% in this year and reached 1294 billion dollars.
Iran was ranked 79th among countries in the world in terms of attracting foreign investment in 2022.
America is in first place with $285 billion, China is in second place with $189 billion and Singapore is in third place with $141 billion.
The amount of foreign investment attracted to the United States this year was down 26% from the previous year.
Iran attracted more foreign capital in 2022 from countries such as Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, Albania, Serbia, Iceland, Pakistan and Turkmenistan.
Iran is the fourth country in the Middle East in terms of attracting foreign capital
In the Middle East region, Iran's situation is good in terms of attracting foreign direct investment.
Iran was ranked 4th among the 10 countries in this region in terms of attracting foreign direct investment in 2022.
Saudi Arabia ranked first in the region with $7 billion and $886 million in investments, and Oman with $3 billion and $716 million and Bahrain with $1 billion and $951 million ranked second and third. in this regard.
The amount of foreign investment in the other countries of the region is: Iran 1 billion 500 million dollars, Jordan 1 billion 137 million dollars, Kuwait 758 million dollars, Lebanon 458 million dollars, Palestine 233 million dollars, Qatar $76 million and Iraq minus $2 billion and $88 million.
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