EU's direct investments into Ukrainian economy 19.3% up
2011-09-14 17:28:29
The volume of direct investments into Ukrainian economy from EU member-countries as of July 1, 2011 increased by 19.3% over the same period last year to 37.7 billion dollars, accounting for 79.8% of the total investments in Ukraine, the State Statistics Service reported.
The major investing countries, accounting for more than 83% of the total investment from the European Union, are Cyprus - 11,619.6 million USD (30.8% of the total investment from EU countries), Germany - 7,365.5 million USD (19.5%), Netherlands - 4,779.5 million USD (12.7%), Austria - 2,855.8 million USD (7.6%), France - 2,384.8 million USD (6.3%) and Great Britain - 2,347.6 million USD (6.2%).
Significant amounts of direct investment from EU countries are concentrated at industrial enterprises (34.2%).
Ukrainian investment in EU economies as of July 1, 2011 made 6,574 million USD, or 94.8% of Ukraine's total investments (as of July 1, 2010 - USD 6,458.9 million, or 95.5%).
The biggest investments as of July 1, 2011 were sent to Cyprus - USD 6,389.3 million (97.2% of the total investment in EU countries). Latvia and Poland rank second and third in terms of investment, having received from Ukraine USD 87.0 million and USD 51.1 million, respectively.