Foreign Direct Investment In Malaysia 2019
29 june 2019.
Foreign direct investment in malaysia 2019. This was the smallest figure since the december quarter of 2009 during the global financial crisis reflecting a severe downturn caused by the covid 19 pandemic. Foreign direct investment into malaysia plunged to myr 2 23 billion in the june quarter of 2020 from myr 6 37 billion in the previous period. From the accumulated investments in 2019 the income received by fdi companies was higher than the dia resulting in higher profits earned by foreign companies in malaysia. Foreign investment in malaysia has been oscillating between usd 9 billion and usd 12 billion since 2010 making the country one of the highest recipients of fdi in the region.
The fdi was delivered mainly into the mining quarrying and services sectors particularly. According to the malaysian investment development authority mida malaysia recorded foreign direct investments of rm54 7 billion in 2017 in the manufacturing services agriculture mining plantation and commodities sectors 1. The fdi flows was in continuous downward trend since 2017 due to lower investment in mining and quarrying sector. The higher fdi was mainly due to injection of equity from japan to malaysia specifically in health activity.
Comparatively foreign investors in malaysia gained rm0 08 for every rm1 00 of investment while malaysian companies received rm0 06 for every rm1 00 invested abroad said mohd uzir. In 2018 fdi in malaysia recorded rm32 6 billion as against rm40 4 billion in the previous year. Moreover the country s foreign direct investment increased by 350 percent or a total of rm49 billion us 11 8 billion in the first nine months of 2018. Foreign direct investment fdi into malaysia has increased 3 1 to rm31 7 billion in 2019 compared with rm30 7 billion in 2018 according to the department of statistics malaysia.
Although according to unctad s world investment report 2020 fdi inflows decreased during the last two years reaching usd 7 6 billion in 2019. Foreign direct investment fdi in malaysia recorded a value of rm32 6 billion. Introduction malaysia is considered one of the most attractive countries in southeast asia for foreign investors.