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Foreign direct investment in Ukraine (capital stock of non-residents) as of July 1, 2015, amounted to $42.851 billion, down by $2.913 billion, or 6.4%, lower than at the beginning of the year at $45.764 billion, according to the state statistics service of Ukraine.
According to the State Statistics Service, the decline in investments is mainly due to exchange rate differences, whereby the capital stock decreased by $3.539 billion, while the outflow of capital stock was insignificant and amounted to $351.3 million, with the inflow of new investments worth $1.042 million.
Compared with the beginning of the year the official exchange rate of the hryvnia depreciated against the dollar in H1 of 2015 by 33.2% - up to 21.01 UAH / USD as of July 1, 2015.
According to the state statistics service, the investments in the said period were coming from 133 countries. The major investors in Ukraine, which account for 83% of total investments, were Cyprus, Germany, Netherlands, the Russian Federation, Austria, the United Kingdom, British Virgin Islands, Switzerland and Italy.
Most of the investments in the amount of $13.499 billion or 31.5% of the total were allocated to Ukrainian industry.
The debt of Ukrainian companies to direct investors on credits and loans amounted to $8.850 billion as of July 1, 2015, while total amount of direct investments, including capital stock and debt instruments - $51.702 billion.
The volume of Ukraine’s direct investment (capital stock) in foreign economies as of July 1, 2015, amounted to $6.254 billion. Direct investments from Ukraine were disbursed in 46 countries, mainly in Cyprus (93%).
The demands of Ukraine’s direct investors on debt instruments to companies abroad by the end of H1 of 2015 amounted to $218 million, the total amount of direct investments including capital stock and debt instruments - $6.472 billion.
The data are presented excluding the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as part of the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the volume of direct foreign investment in Ukraine as of April 1, 2015, amounted to $41.067 billion dollars, down by $4.652 billion, (10.18%) from $45.719 billion in the beginning of the year.
The decline in investments in the Q1 was mainly due to exchange rate differences, whereby shareholders' capital stock decreased by $4.730 billion, while the outflow of capital stock was insignificant.
The net inflow of direct foreign investment in Ukraine in 2013 amounted to $2.860 billion, which is twice less than in 2012 with $6.013 billion.