OREANDA-NEWS. February 17, 2010. This January foreign investments in Azerbaijani economy rose two-fold year-on-year.

The Azerbaijan State Statistics Committee (SSC) informs that the volume of overall foreign investments (AZN 21.856 million) ore than doubled compared the decline of 33.4% in 2009 versus 2008.

Last year the list of leaders of foreign investments in country’s economy did not change.

The UK with investments for AZN 132.315 million ensured 60.5% of their volume. The US invested AZN 28.766 million or 13.2% of all foreign investments, Japan AZN 15.415 million (7.1%), Norway AZN 9.847 million (4.5%), Korea AZN 8.168 million (3.7%), Turkey AZN 7.915 million (3.6%), Saudi Arabia AZN 827,200 (0.4%).

Among international organizations major investments were made by the World Bank Group (AZN 12.36 million or 5.6% of all investments), the Asian Development Bank (AZN 1.616 million or 0.8%), the Islamic Development Bank (AZN 671,800 or 0.3%).