Official figure of FDI in Vietnam in 2013: US$22.35 billion

The latest report of Foreign Investment Agency (Ministry of Planning and Investment) showed the whole country attracted 1.530 newly-licensed projects, totalling US$14.48 billion, a year-on-year rise of 66.8%.

Newly-registered and additional capital reached US$22.35 billion in total in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 35.9%

Besides, there were 590 projects with total additional capital of US$7.86 billion, a rise of 1.4% compared with the corresponding period of 2012.

In 2013, the newly-registered and additional FDI capital was US$22.35 billion, a year-on-year increase of 35.9%.

This figure is much higher than the number of US$21.6 billion, which was announced by Foreign Investment Agency in the end of 2013 after updating on December 15^th, 2013.

The  2013’s updated data indicated that Japan topped the list of FDI projects with total newly-registered and additional capital of US$5.875 billion, accounting for 26.3% of total registered investment capital in Vietnam.

The followings were Singapore (US$4.76 billion, hoding 21.3%) and Korea (US$4.46 billion, hoding 20% of total registered capital).

In 2013, Thai Nguyen province topped the list of provinces attracting FDI capital with total newly-registered and additional capital of US$3.4 billion (15.2%) as Samsung Group speeded up its investment.

Meanwhile, an increase of US$2.8 billion from Nghi son Refinery and Petrochemical complex project made Thanh Hoa province be ranked the second position with US$2.924 billion, hoding 13.1% of total. Followed by Hai Phong with US$ 2.614 billion (about 11.7% of total registered capital), of that figure, the capital of LG Group’s projects (Korea) reached US$1.5 billion.

According to Foreign Investment Agency, there was a significant rise of the newly-registered projects of more than US$1 billion in 2013, making total newly-registered capital increase 66.8% compared with the same period of 2012.

Specifically, of the 1,530 newly-registered projects, Vietnam fetched 5 over-US$1billion-projects, accounting for 53.5 % of the full-year newly- registered capital. The rest of 47.5% was medium- and- small-sized projects, in which the projects of over US$10 million held 9% in terms of quantity and 35% in terms of capital.

The projects of at most US$1 million accounted for 59.3% in terms of quantiy but 2% in terms of capital.

2013’s FDI capital for disbursement reached US$11.5 billion, up 9.9% compared with the same period of 2012.