FDI in Bulgaria in January-July 2026 was 3.45B euro
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first seven months of the year stood at 3.45 billion euro, the equivalent of 2.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), statistics from the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) showed on September 18.
In January-July 2025, FDI was 1.53 billion euro, but the BNB originally reported 1.19 billion euro, which was revised upward later.
Investment in equity, including in the real estate sector, was 334.8 million euro (compared to an outflow of 42.7 million euro in January-July 2025) and the BNB figures showed 2.62 billion euro in re-invested earnings (compared to 2.31 billion euro for the first seven months of last year.)
Net receipts from real estate investments by foreign companies recorded an outflow of 7.3 million euro, compared to an outflow of 16.6 million euro in January-July 2025.
The central bank data showed 492 million euro in investment inflows as debt instruments, recorded as the change in the net liabilities of Bulgarian companies towards their foreign investor owners, compared to outflows of 733.6 million euro in the first seven months of 2025. Such financial flows include financial loans, suppliers’ credits and debt securities, BNB said.
According to preliminary figures, Bulgarian investment abroad increased by 221.8 million euro in January-July, compared to 308.3 million euro in the same period of last year, BNB said.
(Photo: Miroslav Sárička/sxc.hu)
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