The CBBH Published the Foreign Direct Investments Statistics For 2017

Sarajevo, 9 August 2018

The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBBH) published the foreign direct investments (FDI) statistics for 2017, which indicate that the FDI inflow in 2017 amounted to KM 777.7 million, or 2.5% of GDP. The inflow of FDI in 2017 was increased by KM 213.6 million compared to 2016.

In terms of geographical distribution in 2017, the highest investment inflows were from Austria (KM 186.8 million), Croatia (KM 102.0 million), Slovenia (KM 101.7 million), Switzerland (KM 58.7 million) and Serbia (KM 53.9 million).

As per activities, the most investments were realized in financial intermediation (banking sector), amounting to KM 261.2 million, then, the activities related to retail trade, in total amount of KM 110.2 million, the activities related to production and supply with electricity in amount of KM 64.2 million, the activities related to production of base metals, in amount of KM 50.7 and activities related to production of motor vehicles in amount of KM 46.5 million. The total amount includes also the investments outflows, mostly related to manufacture of beverages, in amount of KM 35.6 million.

In the end of 2017, the balance of FDI amounted to KM 13.45 billion, with the biggest portion of 66.1% related to equity. The biggest amount of FDI still refers to Austria (KM 2.6 billion), Croatia (KM 2.3 billion) and Serbia (KM 2.0 billion)

When it comes to the statistics on the FDIs going out from Bosnia and Herzegovina abroad, in 2017, the flows abroad amounted to KM 132.0 million and they have increased by KM 70.3 million compared to 2016, when recorded flows abroad amounted to KM 61.7 million. As the consequence of investments in the previous years, the balance of domestic investments abroad amounted to KM 872.8 million.

According to the auditing policies and on the basis of additional data, with publishing the data for 2017, the audits were performed over the amounts of flows and balances of FDI for the previous years, too.