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This page summarizes private activity across infrastructure sectors and developing regions by number of projects and investment commitments. It also ranks sectors, regions, countries, and private sponsors by those measures of private activity. Sponsors should have at least 15% ownership in a project to be included and must be either a private company or foreign state-owned enterprise.

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Regions ranked by number of projects, 1990-2008

Region	Project Count
East Asia and Pacific	1,338
Latin America and the Caribbean	1,290
Europe and Central Asia	678
South Asia	452
Sub-Saharan Africa	371
Middle East and North Africa	122

Regions ranked by investment 1990-2008 (US$ million)

Region	Project Investment
Latin America and the Caribbean	515,137
East Asia and Pacific	293,721
Europe and Central Asia	240,907
South Asia	160,497
Sub-Saharan Africa	82,958
Middle East and North Africa	67,603

Primary sectors ranked by number of projects, 1990-2008

Primary sectors ranked by investment, 1990-2008 (US$ million)

Top 10 countries by projects, 1990-2008

Top 10 countries by investment, 1990-2008 (US$ million)

Top 10 sponsors by number of projects and region, 1990-2008

Sponsor	Total	East Asia and Pacific	Europe and Central Asia	Latin America and the Caribbean	Middle East and North Africa	South Asia	Sub-Saharan Africa
SUEZ	95	36	6	34	7	0	12
NWS Holdings Limited	69	69	0	0	0	0	0
AES Corporation	65	14	8	35	1	5	2
Xinao Gas Holdings Limited	62	62	0	0	0	0	0
Veolia Environnement	50	20	7	9	4	3	7
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	37	23	0	4	1	7	2
Hong Kong and China Gas Company	32	32	0	0	0	0	0
Wah Sang Gas Holdings Limited	30	30	0	0	0	0	0
Telefonica SA	28	0	0	27	1	0	0
ACS Group (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios)	26	1	0	22	1	1	1

Top 10 sponsors by investment and region, 1990-2008 (US$ million)

Sponsor	Total Investment	East Asia and Pacific	Europe and Central Asia	Latin America and the Caribbean	Middle East and North Africa	South Asia	Sub-Saharan Africa
Telefonica SA	71,121	0	0	68,880	2,241	0	0
America Movil	37,911	0	0	37,911	0	0	0
Carso Group	34,695	0	0	34,695	0	0	0
France Telecom	32,171	1,009	21,544	198	5,411	0	4,009
SUEZ	31,825	10,584	1,617	16,244	3,217	0	164
Vodafone	29,003	114	8,491	0	3,927	10	9,475
Telecom Italia	28,273	0	320	27,953	0	0	0
Singapore Telecom	26,681	11,251	0	0	0	71	0
Telenor	25,075	5,218	15,271	0	0	17	0
Portugal Telecom	23,973	0	0	20,653	2,241	0	1,078

Top 10 sponsors by number of projects and primary sector, 1990-2008

Sponsor	Total	Energy	Telecom	Transport	Water and Sewerage
SUEZ	95	36	0	4	55
NWS Holdings Limited	69	5	0	45	19
AES Corporation	65	65	0	0	0
Xinao Gas Holdings Limited	62	62	0	0	0
Veolia Environnement	50	7	0	0	43
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	37	0	9	28	0
Hong Kong and China Gas Company	32	30	0	0	2
Wah Sang Gas Holdings Limited	30	30	0	0	0
Telefonica SA	28	0	28	0	0
ACS Group (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios)	26	6	0	17	3

Top 10 sponsors by investment and primary sector, 1990-2008 (US$ million)

Sponsor	Total Investment	Energy	Telecom	Transport	Water and Sewerage
Telefonica SA	71,121	0	71,121	0	0
America Movil	37,911	0	37,911	0	0
Carso Group	34,695	0	33,965	730	0
France Telecom	32,171	0	32,171	0	0
SUEZ	31,825	17,341	0	400	14,084
Vodafone	29,003	0	29,003	0	0
Telecom Italia	28,273	0	28,273	0	0
Singapore Telecom	26,681	0	26,681	0	0
Telenor	25,075	0	25,075	0	0
Portugal Telecom	23,973	0	23,973	0	0


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