FDI equity inflows for FY2015

The total FDI equity inflows for FY2015 are estimated at around US$30.9bn as against about US$24.2bn in FY2014 with a growth of 27% over the last year.

Financial Year 2014-2015 (April – February)		Amount of FDI inflows
		(In Rs. Crore)	(In US$ mn)
1	Apr-14	10,290	1,705
2	May-14	21,373	3,604
3	Jun-14	11,508	1,927
4	Jul-14	21,022	3,500
5	Aug-14	7,783	1,278
6	Sep-14	16,297	2,678
7	Oct-14	16,288	2,655
8	Nov-14	9,486	1,537
9	Dec-14	13,562	2,161
10	Jan-15	27,880	4,481
11	Feb-15	20,397	3288
12	Mar-15	13221	2117
2014-15 (from April, 2014 to March 2015)		189,107	30,931
2013-14 (from April, 2013 to March 2014)		147,518	24,299
%age growth over last year		(+) 28%	(+) 27%

                                      Source: PHD Research Bureau compiled from Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion.

Mauritius tops the chart as an investing country, with the top investing sectors including the services sector (includes financial, banking, insurance, non-financial / business, outsourcing, R&D, courier, tech. testing and analysis). Also, Mumbai and New Delhi are observed to be the cities attracting the highest FDI equity inflows.

Service sector and construction development constitute the highest share in attracting FDI equity inflows during April 2000-March 2015 of around 17% and 10% respectively. Telecommunications (radio paging, cellular mobile, basic telephone services) has been able to attract about 7% of FDI equity inflows during the same period. Computer software and hardware constitutes 6% share while Drugs and pharmaceuticals and Automobile Industry constitute 5% share in total FDI equity inflows. Chemicals (other than fertilizers), and Power constitute a share of about 4% in FDI equity inflows. Lastly, metallurgical industries and trading sector constitutes a share of about 3%  during the period.