The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Jordan amounted to $622 million in 2021, constituting 1.2 percent of the Arab region’s total FDI.
The Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (Dhaman) issued data Tuesday which confirmed this.
The Arab region’s FDI in 2021 went up by 42 percent to $53 billion, comprising 6.3 percent of developing countries’ FDI and 3.3 percent of the global FDI that totalled $1.58 trillion, said Dhaman.
The top five Arab countries that took over 96 percent of the region’s FDI are topped by the United Arab Emirates with $20.7 billion or 39.1 percent.
It is followed by Saudi Arabia with $19.3 billion or 36.5 percent, Egypt with $5.1 billion or 9.7 percent, Oman with $3.6 billion or 6.8 percent, and finally Morocco with $2.2 billion or 4.1 percent.
