Kyrgyzstan attracts $5.9 billion in foreign direct investment over six years

Kyrgyzstan attracted a total of $5.9 billion in direct foreign investment in 2020–2025. Speaking to the Kabar news agency, Ravshanbek Sabirov, head of the National Investment Agency under the President, said the 2025 volume exceeded $1.3 billion, a 143.9% increase compared with 2020. In the first half of 2026, Kyrgyzstan received $709.9 million in direct foreign investment, up 26.2% from the same period a year earlier.

According to Sabirov, China, Russia, CIS countries and Turkey are among the main investors over the past six years. Sectoral distribution has also shifted: in 2025, $618 million went to the processing industry and $246 million to mining, while $142 million was directed to the financial intermediation and insurance sector. Priority areas include green energy, mining, processing, tourism, agro-industry and the digital economy.

Major projects include the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway, the Kambar-Ata-1 hydropower plant, the CASA-1000 project and the development of the Ala-Too Resort ski cluster. According to the agency, 88 investment agreements worth $11.8 billion were signed over the past three years.