ON 14 August 2020, ICSID released its latest caseload statistics. The Report examines all ICSID cases going back to the first registered case in 1972, and also looks at trends over the 2020 fiscal year.
ICSID administered 303 cases under the ICSID Convention and Additional Facility Rules in FY2020, marking the second highest number of cases administered in a single year. Forty new cases were registered in FY2020—37 under the ICSID Convention Arbitration Rules and three under the Additional Facility Rules. In FY2020, bilateral investment treaties were the primary instrument invoked (57%), followed by the Energy Charter Treaty (16%), and investment contracts between the investor and the host-State (11%). Other treaties accounted for the remaining 16% . The largest share of cases registered in FY2020 involved States from South America (32%), followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia (20%), Western Europe (13%), and the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa (10% each). States in the Central America and the Caribbean region accounted for 7%, North America for 5%, and South and East Asia and the Pacific for 3% of newly registered cases.
