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Foreign Investment. By activity branches

Foreign Investment. By activity branches Catalonia. 2nd quarter 2024
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 743.5 377.5 103.1 112.9
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 0.2 0.1 179.7 -95.0
Mining industries 0.0 0.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Manufacturing industries 76.2 35.2 85.9 213.7
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 0.6 0.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Water, sewers and waste management 0.0 -0.7 -94.1 -97.1
Construction 24.1 -29.6 -55.1 -25.4
Wholesale and retail trade 107.7 -32.3 -23.1 -61.0
Transport and storage 2.0 -6.9 -77.7 -74.5
Accommodation and food service activities 6.1 -11.8 -65.9 491.0
Information and communications 136.6 100.8 281.5 104.4
Financial activities and insurance 301.3 280.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Real estate activities 70.3 56.9 421.9 421.4
Professional, scientific and technical activities 14.2 -1.6 -9.9 47.0
Administrative and support service activities 0.1 -1.1 -94.5 -41.3
Education 0.1 0.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -98.6
Health and social services 4.0 3.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 0.0 -16.2 -99.9 -97.1
Other services 0.0 -0.6 -97.9 -99.2
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Economy and Business Affairs.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Foreign Investment. By activity branches Spain. 2nd quarter 2024
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total 4,996.0 2,817.9 129.4 -3.7
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 3.3 -15.6 -82.6 34.7
Mining industries 258.8 227.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -92.5
Manufacturing industries 282.2 -124.5 -30.6 -22.4
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 133.5 -319.9 -70.6 80.8
Water, sewers and waste management 171.3 162.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 173.5
Construction 126.1 4.4 3.6 340.8
Wholesale and retail trade 394.3 58.1 17.3 8.6
Transport and storage 31.1 1.4 4.8 1.2
Accommodation and food service activities 18.2 -109.3 -85.7 50.8
Information and communications 266.4 92.6 53.3 -80.2
Financial activities and insurance 1,180.6 1,103.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Real estate activities 268.2 27.5 11.4 28.5
Professional, scientific and technical activities 1,418.1 1,360.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Administrative and support service activities 403.0 356.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 276.8
Education 36.1 24.7 216.9 34.6
Health and social services 4.7 0.7 18.5 -77.6
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 0.1 -32.1 -99.7 -83.0
Other services 0.0 -0.6 -95.3 -88.6
Units: Millions of euros.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Economy and Business Affairs.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: September 23, 2024. Next update: December 20, 2024

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 Spanish companies
  • holdings of more than 10% in listed Spanish companies
  • setting up or expansion of branches of foreign companies
  • other forms of investment in organisations or contracts registered in Spain (foundations, cooperatives, economic interest groupings), in which invested capital is greater than EUR 3,005,060.52

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.