Foreign investment into Vietnam reached US$28.54 billion as of September 30, 2025, up 15.2 percent year-on-year, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Office → view source.
The figure includes newly registered, adjusted, and capital contribution or share purchase transactions by foreign investors.
In the first nine months of the year, 2,926 new projects were licensed with a total registered capital of US$12.39 billion, representing a 17.4 percent increase in project numbers but an 8.6 percent decline in capital value.
The processing and manufacturing sector attracted the largest share, accounting for US$7.27 billion or 58.7 percent of new registered capital, followed by real estate with US$2.57 billion or 20.7 percent, and other industries with US$2.55 billion or 20.6 percent.
Among 82 investing countries and territories, Singapore was the largest new investor with US$3.43 billion, or 27.7 percent of total new capital, followed by China with US$2.88 billion (23.3 percent), Hong Kong (China) with US$1.06 billion (8.5 percent), Sweden with US$1 billion (8.1 percent), Japan with US$918.4 million (7.4 percent), Taiwan with US$778.9 million (6.3 percent), and South Korea with US$565.2 million (4.6 percent).
Adjusted capital from existing projects reached US$11.32 billion, up 48.0 percent from a year earlier.
Combined new and adjusted FDI in the processing and manufacturing sector totalled US$15.0 billion, or 63.3 percent of all registered and increased capital.
Real estate accounted for US$5.18 billion, or 21.8 percent, and other sectors for US$3.52 billion, or 14.9 percent.
Foreign investors also added US$4.84 billion into capital contributions and share purchases, up 35 percent year-on-year.
Of this, US$1.77 billion came from 995 transactions involving increases in enterprise charter capital, while 1,532 deals worth US$3.07 billion involved share acquisitions without capital increases.
The processing and manufacturing industry drew US$1.79 billion, or 37.0 percent, while science and technology-related services attracted US$1.06 billion, or 21.9 percent.
Realised foreign direct investment in Vietnam reached US$18.80 billion in the first nine months of 2025, up 8.5 percent year-on-year.
Of this, US$15.56 billion, or 82.8 percent, was channelled into processing and manufacturing; US$1.37 billion, or 7.3 percent, into real estate; and US$598.7 million, or 3.2 percent, into electricity and gas production and distribution.
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