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Investment abroad. By activity branches

Investment abroad. By activity branches Catalonia. 3rd quarter 2017
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 385.5 -99.7 -20.6 32.4
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 2.3 1.8 361.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Mining industries 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Manufacturing industries 50.4 -21.9 -30.3 -63.1
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 36.5 34.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Water, sewers and waste management 0.1 -1.4 -94.7 -99.6
Construction 0.1 -0.4 -79.1 -34.1
Wholesale and retail trade 20.0 -146.8 -88.0 -20.5
Transport and storage 150.0 1.4 1.0 209.9
Hotel and food services 107.9 104.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 359.6
Information and communications 0.0 -55.6 -100.0 -77.9
Financial activities and insurance 3.7 1.4 63.7 31.7
Real estate activities 12.8 -4.9 -27.6 -76.3
Professional, scientific and technical activities 0.4 -5.5 -93.0 -30.1
Administrative and support service activities 0.0 -2.5 -100.0 -60.9
Education 0.0 -5.9 -99.3 120.5
Health and social services 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 0.0 -0.1 -100.0 -0.4
Other services 1.3 1.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Note: Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Investment abroad. By activity branches Spain. 3rd quarter 2017
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 6,316.9 -5,592.2 -47.0 -44.8
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 51.4 1.7 3.4 49.1
Mining industries 84.4 -103.9 -55.2 197.0
Manufacturing industries 554.8 250.1 82.1 -33.4
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 219.6 -2,576.3 -92.1 -81.2
Water, sewers and waste management 4.1 1.8 75.4 -80.4
Construction 918.5 695.5 311.9 -60.9
Wholesale and retail trade 1,610.9 1,382.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -70.3
Transport and storage 342.5 -671.4 -66.2 154.9
Hotel and food services 191.7 183.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 211.3
Information and communications 1,634.7 1,378.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 22.8
Financial activities and insurance 534.5 -5,833.2 -91.6 -75.1
Real estate activities 27.2 -205.5 -88.3 -70.0
Professional, scientific and technical activities 55.4 20.7 59.6 110.9
Administrative and support service activities 58.5 -125.6 -68.2 -17.1
Education 0.0 -6.1 -99.3 101.3
Health and social services 0.0 -1.7 -100.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 25.6 14.5 129.9 -93.4
Other services 3.0 3.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Note: Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: January 15, 2018. Revised series on April 12, 2021. Next update: June 20, 2024

Annual data

Methodological note

The definition of direct foreign investment basically follows the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (5th Balance of Payments Manual) and the OCDE (Benchmark Definition).

The data is based on that declared by investors pursuant to Act 19/2003, dated 4 July, on the legal system for capital movements and economic transactions abroad and measures to prevent money laundering, and the regulations that further implement it (Royal Decree 664/1999, Ministerial Order dated 28 May 2001 and Ministerial Ruling dated 21 February 2002). They do not include financing between companies, reinvested profits (save in the case of capitalisation of loans and/or profits) and investment in real estate.

Gross investment includes direct investment declared to the Foreign Investment Registry (FIR) of non-residents which entails:

  • holdings in unlisted companies domiciled abroad
  • holdings in listed companies domiciled abroad (over 10% of capital)
  • setting up or expansion of branches
  • other forms of investment contracts or entities registered abroad (foundations, cooperatives, economic interest groups), in which the invested capital exceeds EUR 1,502,530.26

Excluded from the data are foreign share holding companies (ETVEs). ETVEs are holding companies set up in Spain whose sole purpose is to hold shares in companies located abroad.

The information has been broken down into activity branches by the destination of the investment in accordance with the sections in the new Catalan Classification of Economic Activities 2009 (CCEA-2009).

Foreign investment is obtained from official data published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism from the Statistics on Foreign Investment in Spain and Spanish Investment Abroad. The data are provisional, given that in the corresponding quarterly updates, information referring to previous periods is modified as a result of operations which were declared in the last period but carried out prior to this.

For each new period published, Idescat updates and reviews the information published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism for the last 10 years.