Georgia has marked a noteworthy milestone in its labor market as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) received by Georgia has increased by 24.4% higher than the fourth quarter of the last year and reached 367.5 million.
The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development shared the details about these, stating that in the fourth quarter of 2024, direct foreign investments amounted to 367.5 million, on its official Facebook Page on March 11, 2025, Tuesday.
The Georgian Economic Ministry mainly highlighted the positive trends of the investor countries. According to the Ministry, it is a great achievement and direct foreign investments also saw a historic rise.
It should be also noted that, according to investor countries, in the 4th quarter of 2024 the increase of investments mainly from Malta (+42 million. Dollars), the Netherlands (+38 million. Dollars), and the United Kingdom (+17 million. Dollar) is related to increasing investments.
In addition, the Ministry mentioned that the investments also increased in the fourth quarter from Germany (+8 million. Dollars), Israel (+5 million. Dollars) and Turkey (+5 million. Dollars).
In the fourth quarter of 2024, the volume of foreign direct investments from the European Union increased by 4.8 times compared to the previous year’s fourth quarter, reaching 26.9% of total investments.
In the fourth quarter of 2024 the most foreign direct investments were made from the United Kingdom – (60.6% of foreign direct investments), Malta – (18.5%), and the Netherlands (9.9%).
In the fourth quarter of 2024, the most foreign direct investments were made in the financial and insurance sector – 314.9 million. Dollar then comes the real estate sector – 65.8 million. With the dollar, the manufacturing sector – 23.1 million. With dollar, information and communication sector – 18.8 million. The transport and warehousing sector is in fifth place with the dollar – 15.6 million. With a dollar.
According to the details provided by the economic ministry of Georgia, it should be noted that, in 2024 noteworthy growth of foreign direct investments was recorded from the United Kingdom (up by 23%), Malta (up by 80.5%), Czech Republic (up by 279.3%) and Germany (up by 56.3%).
In terms of investment volume, the United Kingdom is in first place in 2024 making up 33.6% of total foreign direct investment, Malta – 13.2% of total foreign direct investment, and the Netherlands – 11.4%
In 2024 foreign direct investments in energy increased (increased 2.9 times, 82.2 million. With a dollar and 126.5 million. Dollar amounted), real estate (increased by 39.7% and amounted to 155.3 million. Dollar), and in hotel and restaurant sectors (it increased by 27.1% and amounted to 21.1 million. Dollar).
