FDI in Bulgaria in January 2026 was 259.8M euro
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first month of the year stood at 259.8 million euro, the equivalent of 0.2 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), statistics from the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) showed on March 20.
In January 2025, FDI was 247.6 million euro, but the BNB originally reported 338 million euro, which was revised downward later.
Investment in equity, including in the real estate sector, was 26.1 million euro (compared to 1.8 million euro in January 2025) and the BNB figures showed 261.7 million euro in re-invested earnings (compared to 104.7 million euro for the first month of last year.)
Net receipts from real estate investments by foreign companies recorded a net outflow of 0.3 million euro, compared to an outflow of one million euro in January 2025.
The central bank data showed 28 million euro in investment outflows as debt instruments, recorded as the change in the net liabilities of Bulgarian companies towards their foreign investor owners, compared to an inflow of 141.1 million euro in the first month of 2025. Such financial flows include financial loans, suppliers’ credits and debt securities, BNB said.
According to preliminary figures, Bulgarian investment abroad increased by 14.4 million euro in January, compared to 100.1 million euro in the same month of last year, BNB said.
(Photo: Miroslav Sárička/sxc.hu)
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