Foreign investments halve in Serbia - Net FDI value shrinks by 54% in January-August 2025
Net foreign direct investment in Serbia fell by 54% year-on-year during the first eight months of 2025, reaching 1.489 billion euros, the Central Bank of Serbia (NBS) announced.
During the January-August period, total foreign direct investment inflows fell by 41% compared to the same period last year, falling to 2.137 billion euros, while their outflows increased by 79%, to 648 million euros, according to the report published by the central bank.
Meanwhile, net portfolio investments went from a negative value of 192 million euros in January-August 2024 to a positive 709 million euros this year.
In 2024, Serbia had attracted 4.6 billion euros in net foreign direct investment, an increase from 4.2 billion euros in 2023. Last year, total FDI inflows reached 5.2 billion euros, up from 4.5 billion euros the year before.
In its latest report on the Western Balkans, published this month, the World Bank stressed that Serbia's economy "has lost momentum" in 2025, due to a decline in private investment and net FDI, in an uncertain global and domestic political climate.
Serbia has been gripped by student protests against corruption since November last year, sparked by a tragic accident at a train station in the city of Novi Sad. Some local officials have blamed the protests for a slump in investment this year.
The central bank explained in August that the extraordinary growth of FDI last year and the decline in investor confidence globally are also important factors that have influenced this contraction.
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