UAE - Mubasher: Abu Dhabi recorded foreign direct investments (FDIs) worth AED 98.84 billion in the second quarter (Q2) of 2021, up 3.8% from AED 95.23 billion in the year-ago period.
The real estate activities, amounting to AED 30.31 billion, contributed 30.7% of the total FDIs for Q2-21, according to recent data by the Statistics Centre − Abu Dhabi (SCAD).
Austria has the largest share in Abu Dhabi's total foreign direct investments with AED 12.881 billion, followed by the UK with AED 9.537 billion and Japan with AED 7.961 billion.
On a quarterly basis, the emirate's FDIs rose by 0.8% in Q2-21, compared to AED 98.0 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021.