{"id":777033747,"date":"2025-10-28T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033747"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:45:53","slug":"macau-gaming-sector-accounted-for-36-of-all-inward-investment-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-sector-accounted-for-36-of-all-inward-investment-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"Macau gaming sector accounted for 36% of inward investment in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Income earned by foreign direct investors in the gaming sector reached US$3.85bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/strong> has indicated that inward direct investment flows in the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR)<\/strong> rose by 54.9 per cent year-on-year to MOP13.76bn (US$1.72bn) in 2024, mainly due to an increase in profits reinvested by some enterprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inward direct investment income amounted to MOP53.92bn (US$6.74bn) in 2024, up 1.9 per cent. At the end of 2024, stock of inward direct investment totalled MOP 395.36bn, up by 4.5 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0Income earned by foreign direct investors in the Gaming Sector<\/strong> reached MOP30.83bn (US$3.85bn), while the financial services and retail sectors earned MOP8.17bn (US$1.02bn) and MOP7.95bn (US$0.99bn) respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total value of foreign investment in the gaming sector<\/strong> stood at MOP142.35bn (US$17.79bn), representing 36 per cent of all inward investment \u2013 a slight drop from the previous year. Financial services (MOP143bn or US$17.87bn) and real estate (MOP23.96bn or US$2.99bn) saw gains of 9.2 and 5.5 per cent, respectively.
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Seaport reaffirms positive stance on Asia\u2019s gaming sector<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Income earned by foreign direct investors in the gaming sector reached US$3.85bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777033750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's inward direct investment flows surged by 54.9% year-on-year to US$1.72bn in 2024, primarily driven by reinvested profits. Total inward direct investment income reached US$6.74bn, with the gaming sector contributing US$3.85bn, representing 36% of the total foreign investment stock of US$17.79bn in the sector.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Seaport","focusai_location":"Macau, Macao Special Administrative Region","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau Investment Drivers","query":"What are the specific components of 'reinvested profits by some enterprises' that drove the 54.9% increase in Macau's inward direct investment flows, and how much of this originated from the gaming sector?"},{"label":"Gaming Sector Capital Allocation","query":"Given the gaming sector's 36% share of total inward investment but a slight year-on-year drop in its proportion, what are the strategic implications for foreign direct investors regarding capital allocation in Macau's evolving economic landscape?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,24628],"tags":[29,24619,1897],"class_list":["post-777033747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","tag-casino","tag-finance","tag-igaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777033747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033782,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033747\/revisions\/777033782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777033750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}