BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 15. The volume of
foreign direct investments (FDI) from the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) into Azerbaijan amounted to $4.03 million and grew by
$609,000, or 17.8%, in the first six months of 2026 compared to the
same period last year.


Trend's
calculations based on data from the Central Bank of Azerbaijan
(CBA) show that during the reporting period, investments from the
ADB accounted for 0.1% of the total volume of foreign direct
investment into Azerbaijan.


In the first six months of 2025, the total volume of foreign
direct investments from the ADB into Azerbaijan stood at $3.428
million.


The total volume of foreign direct investment into the
Azerbaijani economy from January through June 2026 exceeded $3.66
billion. This marks an increase of $444.4 million, or 13.8%,
compared to the same period in 2025.


Meanwhile, the volume of FDI directed from Azerbaijan into
foreign economies during the reporting period amounted to
approximately $5 billion. This figure represents an increase of
$3.65 billion—or a 3.7-fold rise—compared to the same period last
year.







According to the Ministry of Finance of Azerbaijan, a total of
$5.6 billion in financing has been provided for 160 projects within
the framework of cooperation with the bank since Azerbaijan became
a member of the ADB.


Partnership between Azerbaijan and ADB covers transport, energy,
water supply, and development of the private sector. The key
priorities in recent years include the strengthening of regional
interconnection, the development of the Middle Corridor and green
energy.


The ADB plans to deepen integration in the transport, trade, and
energy sectors along the Middle Corridor. In particular, the bank
is working over the strategy to transform the CAREC Corridor 2
transport route, which aligns with the Middle Corridor, into an
integrated economic corridor focusing on modernization of border
crossing points, digitalization of trade, and development of
logistics infrastructure.


ADB, together with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB), is supporting the preparation of a feasibility study for
the Green Energy Corridor project. The project envisages the
transmission of green electricity from Central Asia to Azerbaijan
and onward to Europe via a subsea power cable across the Caspian
Sea.