MUSCAT : FDI inflows during the period amounted to RO 5.225 billion, marking a notable increase compared to RO 4.111 billion in the same quarter of 2024.

Preliminary statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) indicate that the oil and gas extraction sector accounted for 81 percent of total FDI, amounting to RO 24.702 billion, with cash flows totalling RO 4.812 billion.

Statistics showed that the manufacturing sector attracted RO 2.749 billion in FDI by the end of the first quarter of 2025, with cash flows amounting to RO 592.3 million. In the financial brokerage sector, the value of FDI amounted to RO 1.3 billion with cash flows amounting to RO 217.8 million.

Statistics showed that the value of investments in the real estate, rental, and commercial projects sector amounted to RO 653.1 million, a decrease of 36.8 percent compared to the same quarter of 2024.
FDI in transport, storage, and communications amounted to RO 357.9 million, with inflows of RO 3.2 million. FDI investments in electricity and water stood at RO 292 million, a decrease of 11 percent compared to the same quarter of 2024, while the trade sector attracted FDI worth RO 262 million, with inflows of RO 14.5 million.

The hotel and restaurant sector received a total FDI of RO 116.6 million, a decrease in value of 0.5 percent compared to the same period in 2024, while the construction sector saw FDI worth RO 88.5 million, with a decrease in flows estimated at RO 4.9 million. Total value of FDSI’s in the other activities sector reached RO 89.9 million, with flows of RO 7.3 million.

The United Kingdom emerged as the largest foreign investor, contributing 50.9 percent of the total FDI, valued at RO 15.574 billion. This was followed by the United States at RO 7.824 billion, Kuwait with RO 1.223 billion, China with RO 894.9 million, the United Arab Emirates with RO 753 million, Qatar with RO 669.3 million, Bahrain with RO 462.4 million, Netherlands with RO 364.1 million, India with RO 306 million, Switzerland with RO 301 million and other countries collectively contributed FDI worth RO 2.238 billion.

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