Foreign Direct Investment in Cambodia, 2021 (Updated to 2022)

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Foreign Direct Investment in Cambodia, 2021 (Updated to 2022)

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Foreign Direct Investment in Cambodia Up 9.6 percent in First Semester
AKP Phnom Penh, November 27, 2021 --
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Cambodia attracted new foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$39 billion in capital at the end of the first semester of this year, a year-on-year increase of 9.6 percent, the National Bank of Cambodia’s statistics showed on Saturday.

China was the largest source of registered FDI with US$17.3 billion or 44.2 percent of the total registered investment capital among countries with newly licensed investment projects in Cambodia during the period.

South Korea and Vietnam were placed second and third with registered capital of US4.1 billion and US$2.5 billion, respectively.

Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, the UK, Canada, and the U.S. were also among the top investment countries in Cambodia.

The licensed FDI covered mainly the areas of finance, manufacturing, real estate, hotel and restaurant, agriculture, electricity, and construction.

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Compared against first semester 2020 may be sounding better than it actually is due to Covid start. What is the comparison against 2019 pre-covid year?
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Distribution of FDI inflows in Cambodia 2018, by country of origin
Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 15, 2021
The graph shows the distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia in 2018, broken down by country of origin. In 2018, the foreign investment from China in Cambodia amounted to 26 percent of the total.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/899 ... y-country/

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28 October 2022
Cambodia punches above its weight in attracting FDI
Cambodia, a lesser known FDI location in south-east Asia, must compete against the likes of Singapore and Vietnam to attract inward investment. Despite stiff competition it has managed to win more than its fair share of greenfield projects.
By Cara Lyttle and Deepti Aggarwal
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Cambodia performs impressively in Investment Monitor’s 2022 Inward FDI Performance Index. The index measures a country’s inward investment levels against its gross domestic product (GDP) using GlobalData’s FDI Projects Database, which tracks greenfield projects.

This means that Cambodia, with a score of 3.26, received more than three times its fair share of inward greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) compared with what could be expected given its level of GDP. In that regard, Cambodia is punching well above its weight in FDI terms. Cambodia places third for FDI into Asia-Pacific based on the aforementioned index, attracting 15 projects in 2021. Singapore ranks first with an index score of 4.9 while New Zealand places second scoring 3.31.

FDI into Cambodia has been slow to recover from the global pandemic
FDI peaked in Cambodia in 2019, with GlobalData’s FDI Projects Database recording 43 projects. In terms of capital investment this represented a 15.5% increase on 2018’s figures, to $3.7bn, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s 2020 World Investment Report. FDI experienced a step decline in 2020 due to the global coronavirus pandemic, with project numbers dropping by 65.1% to 18. Cambodia did not manage the same rebound from the pandemic as the wider Asia-Pacific region, which saw an average FDI increase of 21.2% in 2021. Instead, the total number of FDI projects in Cambodia in 2021 fell further to 15.

The majority of inward FDI in 2021 went to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh which recorded eight investments. Sihanoukville, a coastal city in the capital of Preah Sihanouk province ranked second, while Siem Reap in the north-west and Aoral district in Kampong Speu province in central Cambodia ranked joint third.

Tourism, the leading sector for FDI in Cambodia in 2019 and 2020, remained top in 2021, ranking joint first alongside business and professional services. Tourism projects decreased from seven in 2020 to three in 2021 as the world grappled with the effects of lingering travel restrictions.

Business and professional services returned to its 2019 level of three projects in 2021, having dipped to two projects in 2020. Rubber, which previously recorded no investments in 2019 and 2020, ranked joint third for FDI into Cambodia in 2021 with two investments. Rubber was also the leading sector in terms of job creation and capital investment, with China-based conglomerate Hodo Group announcing it planned to invest $300m to open a tyre factory in Sihanoukville. The new facility is expected to create 1,600 new jobs when it becomes operational at the end of 2022 and will be located at Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone.
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FDI in Cambodia Increases by 9% in Q1
AKP Phnom Penh, July 14, 2023 --
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia amounted to 185.7 trillion Riel (Cambodian currency roughly US$45.8 billion), as of the first quarter of 2023, according to the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC).
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The figure saw an increase of 9 percent compared to the same period last year, the central bank underlined in a news release yesterday.

FDI’s main source of capital were from China, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, the source added.

The inflow of investment was injected into the major sectors of the economy, including financial activities, manufacturing, real estate, accommodation, agriculture, hydropower and construction, said the NBC.
The increase in FDI reflects the political and socio-economic stability in Cambodia.
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