Vietnam’s registered foreign direct investment reached $54.85bn in the first ten months of 2026, up 74% from a year earlier and the highest in 17 years.
The National Statistics Office said the total as of 31 October covers newly registered capital, adjusted registered capital, and capital contributions and share purchases by foreign investors.
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During the first ten months of 2026, Vietnam approved 3,478 new foreign-invested projects with combined registered capital of $30.73bn.
The capital volume was 2.2 times that recorded during the corresponding period of 2025.
Processing and manufacturing received $14.61bn in newly registered capital, equivalent to 47.5% of the total.
Transportation and warehousing attracted $5.15bn, accounting for 16.7%.
Foreign investors added $16.13bn to 1,079 existing projects, up 33.2% year-on-year (YoY).
They completed 2,616 capital-contribution and share-purchase transactions valued at $7.99bn, a 49.6% increase.
Singapore was the largest source of newly registered capital, contributing $9.52bn, or 31% of the total.
South Korea followed with $5.81bn, ahead of Luxembourg at $4.99bn, Hong Kong at $3.57bn, and China at $2.77bn.
Disbursed FDI was estimated at $24.08bn in the first ten months of 2026, up 13.1% YoY.
Processing and manufacturing accounted for $19.96bn, or 82.9%, while real estate business received $1.76bn and electricity, gas, hot water, steam and air-conditioning production and supply received $785.2m.
State budget investment disbursement reached VND121.6tn ($4.73bn) in October, an increase of 23.7% YoY.
For the first ten months of 2026, disbursement was estimated at VND783.9tn, equal to 69% of the annual plan and up 19.8% from the corresponding period in 2025.
Vietnamese investment abroad totalled $3.41bn during the first ten months of 2026, 3.1 times as high as a year earlier.
This comprised 132 newly licensed projects with $1.87bn in Vietnamese capital and $1.54bn in adjusted capital across 34 existing projects.
Last month, Samsung Electro-Mechanics unveiled its plans to invest approximately Won2.51tn ($1.88bn) in its Vietnam subsidiary to expand production of flip-chip ball grid array semiconductor substrates.
