GASTAT Reports 34.5% Increase in Net Foreign Investment Inflows for Q3 2025

The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Statistics for the third quarter of 2025 revealed net inflows of SAR24.9 billion, reflecting a 34.5% increase compared to the same quarter of the previous year, when net inflows reached SAR18.5 billion. This figure also shows a 5.2% rise from the previous quarter, which recorded SAR23.7 billion, according to the FDI Statistics bulletin issued by the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).
 The bulletin indicated that FDI inflows reached approximately SAR27.7 billion in Q3 2025, a 4.4% increase from the same period in 2024, when they were approximately SAR26.5 billion. It also represented a 3.3% increase from the previous quarter, which recorded SAR26.8 billion.
 Additionally, the results showed that FDI outflows amounted to approximately SAR2.7 billion in Q3 2025, a 65.7% decrease from SAR8 billion in Q3 2024. It also declined by 11.4% from the previous quarter, to SAR3.1 billion.
 According to GASTAT, Foreign Direct Investment signifies a long-term relationship and a sustained interest of economic entities residing in an economy other than the Saudi economy. This means that an individual foreign investor or a group of foreign investors owns 10% or more of the voting power of shareholders’ rights.