FDI slips 54.8 pct to RM14.6b in 2020, lowest since 2009

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Malaysia recorded a net inflow of RM14.6 billion in 2020, down 54.8 percent from RM32.4 billion in 2019, the lowest since 2009.

However, as of end-2020, the FDI position registered a higher value of RM698.8 billion, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement on the country’s FDI and direct investment abroad (DIA) for 2020 today.

Chief statistician Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the world's economic activities were severely disrupted throughout last year in the wake...