“In 2020 new foreign investment projects in the MENA region fell to 1,031 in 2020, compared with 1,795 in 2019. Saudi Arabia attracted 18%  of all MENA foreign investment leading the region with $10.4 billion while the UAE attracted $9 billion.”

–Arab News, reporting on recently-released data. The Number of FDI projects in Saudi Arabia fell 49 percent in 2020 to 73. [Arab News]