Number of Gulf investment projects registered here and in other Yemeni provinces amounted to 219 projects during the period from 1992 till 2010. This came in an announcement by Yemeni General Investment Authority (YGIA) which pointed out that the cost of these Gulf projects exceeded 562 billion Yemeni riyals. YGIA confirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia tops the list of Gulf projects registered in Yemen by about 124 projects with a total investment cost exceeded 348 billion Yemeni riyals, or a percentage of 62% of the total Gulf capital already invested in Yemen.