{"id":2000102328,"date":"2026-02-18T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000102328"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:57:24","slug":"rwandas-foreign-direct-investment-surges-to-1-09-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandas-foreign-direct-investment-surges-to-1-09-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda’s foreign direct investment surges to $1.09 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The report shows that the financial sector attracted $299.1 million in 2024, a 27.2% increase. Industry received $267.1 million, construction $150.5 million, while agriculture, education and health together drew $107.7 million in foreign investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By country of origin, investors from Mauritius led with $251.1 million, followed by Kenya with $140.3 million, China with $108.6 million, the United States with $103.9 million, and Germany with $65.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viewed by regional blocs, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) accounted for $418.6 million in investment inflows, followed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with $340.6 million, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with $293.4 million, Asia with $228.2 million, and the East African Community with $159.1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign loans to Rwandan businesses rose to $543.6 million, a 28.5% increase from $423 million the previous year. The report attributes the rise mainly to borrowing from affiliated companies abroad, which accounted for 60.8% of external loans, while 39.2% came from non-affiliated foreign entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 380 companies participated in the survey. Their combined turnover reached $3.9 billion in 2024, up from $3.6 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profitability and employment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report indicates that in 2024, private companies with foreign ownership exceeding 10% recorded profits of $179.5 million, up 36.4% from $176.5 million in 2023. Reinvested earnings rose by 34.6% to $125.4 million, while dividends distributed to shareholders increased by 15.2% to $38.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign investment generated 69,341 jobs in 2024, with 97.6% of positions held by Rwandans. In 2023, foreign investment-related employment stood at 59,916 jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Foreign direct investment in Rwanda reached $1.09 billion (over Rwf 1.5 trillion) in 2024, up from $886.9 million recorded in 2023, according to a new report by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda released on February 17, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2000102329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[151,69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000102328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000102329,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kigali333-2-9196d.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":631,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kigali333-2-9196d.jpg","width":150,"height":95},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kigali333-2-9196d.jpg","width":300,"height":189},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kigali333-2-9196d.jpg","width":768,"height":485},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kigali333-2-9196d.jpg","width":1000,"height":631},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kigali333-2-9196d.jpg","width":1000,"height":631}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000102328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000102328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000102328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000102351,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000102328\/revisions\/2000102351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000102329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000102328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000102328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000102328"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000102328"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000102328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}