A decade of continuous foreign investment in Spain

Report drafted by Sifdi for Multinacionales con España, with the collaboration of ICEX-Invest in Spain

This report aims to highlight the role of multinational companies and foreign capital in the growth of investment in Spain over the last decade (November 2023).

The report presented here proposes an analysis and development of the actual perspective of quantitative and qualitative information in the field of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and the activities of Multinational Companies (MNCs), the basic  architects of international investment. The objectives set out in this analysis are to assess and make the role of Multinational Companies with foreign capital visible in the growth of investment in Spain over the last decade, as well as projecting the growth obtained by FDI in the period 2013 - 2022 towards a goal for 2024 – 2030.The result of the report, always carried out from the perspective of the decade prior to 2013, the date of the creation of the Association of Multinationals with Spain, can be summarized in four sections. The first is dedicated to characterizing the decade of continued growth of Foreign Investment (FDI) in Spain. The second section takes into consideration the competitive factors that make Spain an attractive destination for investments by foreign companies. The contribution of these to strengthening Spain's own attractiveness as a foreign investment destination is then set out and, finally, the report includes a projection of the evolution of FDI in Spain towards the year 2030, in a scenario of global stability.
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