Datasource:
Foreign Private Capital Census
Period:
January, 2012 to December, 2012
In 2012, private sector foreign liabilities inflows to Rwanda increased by 14.8 percent to $ 409.3 million compared with $ 356.6 million recorded in 2011. The capital inflows were dominated by FDI, amounting to $ 255.0 million, and accounting for 62.3 percent of total inflows, followed by other investments of $ 153.3 million, accounting for 37.5 percent and foreign portfolio equity investment of $ 1.0 million.
Sectors which attracted the highest flows were ICT with 41.4 percent, followed by mining with 13.8 percent, tourism with 12.3 percent and manufacturing with 10.8 percent.
The findings of the census indicate that from collected stock of $315.73 million in 2008, $ 446.28 million in 2009, $ 590.5 million in 2010, and $ 832.3 million in 2011 the total stock of foreign private capital amounted to $ 1,109.0 million in 2012. Stock of foreign investment in ICT was 40.0 percent followed by finance and insurance with 20.4 percent and manufacturing with 14.6 percent.