Foreign investment grew by 18.9%

Foreign investments in Azerbaijan's economy in 2012 amounted to $ 10.3 billion, which is 18.9% more than the previous year, the State Statistics Committee told Turan.

More than half ($ 5.4 billion or 52.2%) of foreign investment are a share of direct investment companies. Direct investment increased in comparison with 2011 by 25.4%. With $ 4.3 billion or about 80% of direct investment was directed to the oil and gas sector.

 The share of financial loans accounts for 30.4% of investments ($ 3.1 billion). The share of loans on government guarantees in the structure of international debt is 39.7%. The remaining 17.4% are portfolio and other investments.

Partial politicizing the volume of foreign investments in the country, SSC provides data for the presidency of Ilham Aliyev in 2004. During this period, according to the SSC in the Azerbaijani economy was invested $ 60.7 billion in foreign investment.

Azerbaijan increases export investments. Only in 2012, the private and public investments in the economy of various countries was $ 1 128.8 million, which is 2 times higher than the figure for the year 2011. - 08D-