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Investment abroad. By activity branches

Investment abroad. By activity branches Catalonia. 2017
Value Variation (%)
Total 2,554.6 15.0
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 145.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Mining industries 0.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Manufacturing industries 231.0 -32.7
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 85.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Water, sewers and waste management 0.1 -99.6
Construction 6.3 -65.7
Wholesale and retail trade 651.0 -32.7
Transport and storage 1,095.1 108.7
Hotel and food services 149.7 428.3
Information and communications 10.3 -84.2
Financial activities and insurance 13.7 13.5
Real estate activities 100.5 -38.2
Professional, scientific and technical activities 13.6 -40.1
Administrative and support service activities 2.1 -57.3
Education 13.2 120.5
Health and social services 21.3 -7.9
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 14.4 -2.7
Other services 1.3 .. 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. 2017
Value Variation (%)
Total 39,729.4 -0.3
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 368.6 67.3
Mining industries 3,090.3 173.1
Manufacturing industries 18,426.2 187.8
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 1,824.6 -60.9
Water, sewers and waste management 41.8 -72.2
Construction 2,234.4 -35.3
Wholesale and retail trade 2,786.1 -68.8
Transport and storage 3,862.5 129.4
Hotel and food services 332.4 244.2
Information and communications 2,760.4 -3.0
Financial activities and insurance 2,637.8 -64.9
Real estate activities 507.6 -63.4
Professional, scientific and technical activities 189.1 12.8
Administrative and support service activities 263.1 -33.8
Education 14.1 85.3
Health and social services 309.7 783.0
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 61.4 -92.0
Other services 19.2 .. 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: March 21, 2018.

Quarterly 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 is 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.