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Azerbaijan increases capital involved from abroad by 31%

01 April 2013 12:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Vahab Rzayev – APA-Economics. Total foreign capital in Azerbaijan which reflected in BoP made $ 10.6 bln in 2012, up 30.6% compared to a year ago.

Central Bank of Azerbaijan says this index was mainly formed by direct investments and foreign loans.

(mln. dollar)

Structure of involved foreign capital
	2011	2012
Direct investments	4,443.9	5,289.4
- Oil-gas sector	3,465.6	4,290.0
- Other sectors	978.3	999.4
Loans and other investments	3,651.0	5,303.5
- state guaranteed loans	1,255.1	1,245.5
- loans without a state guarantee	2,053.1	2,267.1
-- oil-gas sector	706.0	486.0
-- banks	828.9	1,556.7
-- others	518.2	224.4
- other investments	342.8	1,790.9
Oil Bonus	20.0	2.0
Total	8,114.9	10,594.9

The total sum of foreign capital as a direct investment was $ 5.3 bn and the share of oil-gas in the structure of investments made 81.1%.

The investments borrowed as loans and other investments increased by 45.3% and their share rose 5.1 percentage points to 50.1%.

According to BOP, $ 2,710.3 mln on borrowed loans before was repaid. 48.4% ($1,312.5 mln) of this belonged to banking system, 12.2% ($330.5 mln) - state and state guaranteed loans, 28.5% ($772.3 mln) - oil-gas sector, 10.9% ($295.0 mln) - other institutions and firms.