According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, as of September 20, 2022, the total newly registered capital, adjusted capital and capital contributions and share purchases of foreign investors reached over 18.7 billion USD, as much as 84.7% over the same period in 2021 and decrease of 3 percentage points from the figure in the past eight months. Of which, 1,355 new projects were granted investment registration certificates (a year-on-year increase of 11.8%). The total registered capital reached 7.12 billion USD (a year-on-year decline of 43%). In addition, there were 769 projects registering to adjust their investment capital (a year-on-year increase of 13.4%). The total additional registered capital reached over 8.3 billion USD (a year-on-year increase of 29.9%) and there were 2,697 capital contributions and share purchases by foreign investors (a year-on-year decrease of 4.7%), with the total value of contributed capital reaching 3.28 billion USD (a year-on-year increase 1.9%).

In 9 months, foreign investors have invested in 18 industries out of a total of 21 national economic sectors, of which the processing and manufacturing industry continued to lead with a total investment of over 12.1 billion USD, accounting for 64.6% of the country’s total capital. The real estate sector ranked second with a total investment capital of more than 3.5 billion USD, accounting for 18.7% of total registered investment capital. Next came science and technology and wholesale and retail were with 676.9 million USD and 617.9 million USD, respectively. The rest were other sectors. However, in terms of the number of new projects, wholesale and retail, processing and manufacturing and science and technology attracted the most projects, accounting for 30%, 25.7% and 15.9% of the total, respectively.

Accumulated as of September 20, 2022, the whole country has 35,725 valid FDI projects worth more than 431.5 billion USD. The accumulated realised capital of FDI projects is estimated at 267 billion USD, equalling 61.9% of the total valid registered investment capital.