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Investment abroad. By activity branches

Investment abroad. By activity branches Catalonia. 2022
Value Variation (%)
Total 774.1 -61.9
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 54.7 80.5
Mining industries 0.0 -100.0
Manufacturing industries 192.2 -69.8
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 128.2 12.1
Water, sewers and waste management 0.0 -100.0
Construction 19.1 -55.3
Wholesale and retail trade 165.4 -80.0
Transport and storage 0.0 -100.0
Hotel and food services 76.3 -29.5
Information and communications 38.4 -42.4
Financial activities and insurance 42.7 -55.6
Real estate activities 27.8 260.9
Professional, scientific and technical activities 8.1 -56.2
Administrative and support service activities 3.4 151.1
Education 6.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Health and social services 11.0 -73.6
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 0.1 -68.7
Other services 0.0 .. 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. 2022
Value Variation (%)
Total 31,202.8 7.3
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing 182.5 245.7
Mining industries 26.6 -94.5
Manufacturing industries 8,446.6 154.2
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning 4,347.2 -32.8
Water, sewers and waste management 398.1 377.5
Construction 2,911.7 361.5
Wholesale and retail trade 782.3 -65.4
Transport and storage 1,580.5 393.1
Hotel and food services 197.4 -45.4
Information and communications 1,704.6 -82.9
Financial activities and insurance 8,418.0 144.2
Real estate activities 1,067.6 73.2
Professional, scientific and technical activities 540.9 31.6
Administrative and support service activities 364.0 21.0
Education 144.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Health and social services 44.1 -35.5
Artistic, recreational and entertainment activities 44.5 -81.2
Other services 1.6 -93.3
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: September 27, 2023.

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.