Poland climbs in IBM ranking
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The latest IBM report shows that the number of FDIs decreased worldwide by 5% in 2018, which translates into the creation of 1.05 million jobs (10% less than in 2017). Meanwhile, Poland attracted investors who will create 29,700 full-time jobs, which gave it the 9th place in the ranking, ahead of Germany. Among the top ten countries, only India, France and Poland had more jobs than a year ago. Poland moved up from the 13th position in 2017. A year earlier it was also in the 9th place, but in the years 2014-15, it ranked among the second ten countries. In terms of the number of jobs per one million inhabitants created by FDI, Poland this year came 19th. While for some countries, including China, India, Canada and Switzerland, Poland is not a place of large investments, for companies from the US it is the eighth market in terms of the number of jobs created. It is the fifth, the seventh, the eleventh and the thirteenth market for German, Japanese, British and French, and South Korean companies respectively.
Compared to the rest of the world, Polish companies are still investing very little abroad. The country is in the 35th position in this category. According to IBM, 2,600 jobs were last year created globally thanks to Polish projects.
