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Oman

13. Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment Statistics

According to the Oman’s National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) — the only host-country source of foreign direct investment (FDI) data — total FDI in Sultanate through the third quarter of 2020 was RO 15.6 billion, representing growth of 11.7 percent increase over the same period in 2019.  FDI inflow at the end of the third quarter of 2020 stood at RO 1.644 billion ($4.25 billion).  The United Kingdom remains by far the biggest investor in FDI (RO 7.92 billion – $20.5 billion), followed by the United States (RO 1,847.9 billion – $4.8 billion), UAE (1,267.7 billion – $3.3 billion), Kuwait (RO 933.2 million – $2.4 billion), and China (RO 848.9 million – $2.2 billion).

Major foreign investors that have entered the Omani market within the last five years include SV Pittie Textiles (India), Moon Iron & Steel Company (India), Sebacic Oman (India), BP (UK), Sembcorp (Singapore), Daewoo (Korea), LG (Korea), Veolia (France), Huawei (China), SinoHydro (China), and Vale (Brazil).

Table 2: Key Macroeconomic Data, U.S. FDI in Host Country/Economy 
Host Country Statistical source* USG or international statistical source  USG or International Source of Data:  BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other 
Economic Data Year Amount Year Amount
Host Country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ($M USD) 2018 $82,200 2018 $79,789 www.worldbank.org/en/country
Foreign Direct Investment Host Country Statistical source* USG or international statistical source  USG or international Source of data:  BEA; IMF; Eurostat; UNCTAD, Other 
U.S. FDI in partner country ($M USD, stock positions) 2018 $4,025 2018 2,131 BEA data available at
https://www.bea.gov/international/
direct-investment-and-multinational-
enterprises-comprehensive-data
Host country’s FDI in the United States ($M USD, stock positions) N/A N/A N/A N/A BEA data available at
https://www.bea.gov/international/
direct-investment-and-multinational-
enterprises-comprehensive-data
Total inbound stock of FDI as % host GDP N/A N/A 2018 34.3 UNCTAD data available at
https://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/
World%20Investment%20Report/
Country-Fact-Sheets.aspx
  

* Source for Host Country Data: National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI). 

 Table 3: Sources and Destination of FDI 
Direct Investment from/in Counterpart Economy Data
From Top Five Sources/To Top Five Destinations (US Dollars, Millions)
Inward Direct Investment* Outward Direct Investment**
Total Inward 30,313 100% Total Outward 16,764 100%
United Kingdom 14,703 47% UAE 1,099 N/A%
UAE 2,981 10% Saudi Arabia 288 N/A%
USA 2,333 8% India 205 N/A%
Kuwait 2,162 7% United Kingdom 77 N/A%
China 1,265 4% Kuwait 77 N/A%
“0” reflects amounts rounded to +/- USD 500,000.

*Source for Host Country Data: National Centre for Statistical Analysis, 2019 Q2 (Inward). **2017 Q4 (Outward).  Data on Oman from the IMF’s Coordinated Direct Investment Survey is not available.

Table 4: Sources of Portfolio Investment
Data not available.

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