Kirov Oblast has fallen in the ranking of regions by investment attractiveness.

      By the end of 2024 the Kirov Region received a "B-3" rating — a moderately low level of investment attractiveness. The same rating was assigned to 15 regions in the country. Analysts note that the pace of improvement in investment attractiveness in Russia as a whole has slowed: the median score across regions fell from 0.72 to 0.59 points. Against a backdrop of geopolitical pressure and macroeconomic instability, many regions were unable to maintain the recovery pace seen in 2023. According to the study, the Kirov Region was among 20 regions whose positions worsened. The agency links this to a slowdown in investment growth and weak industrial production dynamics. Thus, in the first half of 2025 the volume of fixed-capital investment nationwide grew by only 4.3% on average, whereas a year earlier the figure was +11.2%. Industrial production increased by just 0.8% versus 5.3% in 2024. At the same time, the growth of regions' tax and non-tax revenues slowed to +7.2% over eight months, and the unemployment rate reached a historic low — 2.1%, which analysts say points to structural constraints rather than active economic growth. The top five in the ranking remained unchanged — Moscow, Krasnodar and Primorsky Krais, the Republic of Tatarstan and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.