Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ukraine as equity capital as of July 1, 2019, was $33.724 billion, which was 2.6%, or $0.84 billion more than in the beginning of the year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said. According to the data, the inflow of FDI for the sixth months of 2019 totalled $1.256 billion, $728.9 million was written off, other changes of the cost of the corporate capital of nonresidents totaled $309 million with exchange rate differences of $520.8 million.
According to previously published data, first quarterly inflow of FDI in Ukraine grew by $45.5 million.
Cyprus was the leader in FDI surplus in the first half of 2019 with $388.8 million, followed by the Netherlands ($295.1 million), Russia – 145.5 million, and Switzerland ($100.3 million).
Meanwhile, FDI from Hungary decreased $250.6 million.
Nonresidents invested $318.5 million in financial and insurance activities, $184.9 million and $176.4 million in extractive and processing industries respectively, $113.8 million in wholesale and retail trade, $122.6 million in transactions with property, $128.4 million in science and technical activities.
Although there was a $270.4 million drop in FDI in the field of administrative and supportive service for the mentioned period.
