17:31 - 23.10.2025

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October 23, Fineko/abc.az. As of October 1, 2025, investments of the Azerbaijan State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) in the countries of the Middle East region made up 1.4%.

ABC.AZ informs, referring to the SOFAZ, as of the beginning of October 2024, this figure was 0.3%, which means a rise of 1.1%.

The share of European countries was 30.1%. These figures were 29.1% as of the beginning of October 2024, which means a decrease of 1%.

The share of Asian countries was 8.5% (2.3 p.p. less than a year earlier).

Among other regions, the share of North America declined from 33.1% to 24.8%, while the share of Australia and New Zealand increased from 0.7% to 1%. The Latin American region's share remained unchanged at 0.1%.

The share of investments in the African region fell from 0.1% to 0.02%.

The share of international financial organizations in SOFAZ investments fell from 7.1% to 2.3% (a drop by 4.8 p.p.).

As of October 1, 2025, the value of SOFAZ's investment portfolio amounted to $70.16 billion ($8.969 billion, or 14.7% more than on October 1, 2024).