Tunisia succeeded in attracting foreign investment worth 730.8 million dinars (MDT) in the first quarter of 2025, compared with 597.5 MDT in the same period of 2024, an increase of 26.1%, according to data published by the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA-Tunisia).
These investments were broken down into 3.6 MDT of portfolio investments and 727.2 MDT of foreign direct investment (FDI), which recorded an increase of 25.6% compared with the first quarter of 2024.
The manufacturing sector accounted for almost 62% of these investments, with 452 MDT, up 72.3% year-on-year.
By contrast, investments in the energy and services sectors fell by 14.1% to 195 MDT, and by 11.5% to 74.8 MDT respectively.
FIPA expects foreign investment to reach 3.4 billion dinars in 2025 and 4 billion dinars in 2026, following a 16.7% increase to 2.9 billion dinars in 2024.
TunisianMonitorOnline (NejiMed)
