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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, 1990-2011

Region	Project Count
Latin America and the Caribbean	1,586
East Asia and Pacific	1,564
South Asia	771
Europe and Central Asia	742
Sub-Saharan Africa	436
Middle East and North Africa	139

Regions ranked by investment 1990-2011 (US$ million)

Region	Project Investment
Latin America and the Caribbean	672,494
East Asia and Pacific	336,753
South Asia	320,744
Europe and Central Asia	289,129
Sub-Saharan Africa	121,138
Middle East and North Africa	85,944

Primary sectors ranked by number of projects, 1990-2011

Primary sectors ranked by investment, 1990-2011 (US$ million)

Top 10 countries by projects, 1990-2011

Top 10 countries by investment, 1990-2011 (US$ million)

Top 10 sponsors by number of projects and region, 1990-2011

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	107	37	7	44	8	0	11
AES Corporation	71	15	11	34	1	6	4
NWS Holdings Limited	69	69	0	0	0	0	0
Xinao Gas Holdings Limited	64	64	0	0	0	0	0
Veolia Environnement	50	20	6	9	5	3	7
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	36	23	0	4	1	7	1
Hong Kong and China Gas Company	34	34	0	0	0	0	0
Reliance ADA Group	32	0	0	0	0	32	0
ACS Group (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios)	31	1	0	27	1	1	1
China Gas Holdings Limited	30	30	0	0	0	0	0

Top 10 sponsors by investment and region, 1990-2011 (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
America Movil	88,395	0	0	88,395	0	0	0
Telefonica SA	86,594	0	0	86,594	0	0	0
SUEZ	39,622	11,231	2,180	22,861	3,217	0	133
Vodafone	38,935	114	7,354	0	5,200	13	12,621
Telecom Italia	34,128	0	320	33,808	0	0	0
Bharti Airtel Limited	33,557	0	0	0	0	67	11,586
Reliance ADA Group	33,513	0	0	0	0	58	0
TeliaSonera	32,865	2,151	30,369	0	0	10	0
Telenor	28,995	6,359	15,882	0	0	26	0
Alfa Group	28,785	0	27,741	1,044	0	0	0

Top 10 sponsors by number of projects and primary sector, 1990-2011

Sponsor	Total	Energy	Telecom	Transport	Water and Sewerage
SUEZ	107	48	0	2	57
AES Corporation	71	71	0	0	0
NWS Holdings Limited	69	5	0	45	19
Xinao Gas Holdings Limited	64	64	0	0	0
Veolia Environnement	50	7	0	0	43
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	36	0	8	28	0
Hong Kong and China Gas Company	34	32	0	0	2
Reliance ADA Group	32	17	2	13	0
ACS Group (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios)	31	10	0	17	4
China Gas Holdings Limited	30	30	0	0	0

Top 10 sponsors by investment and primary sector, 1990-2011 (US$ million)

Sponsor	Total Investment	Energy	Telecom	Transport	Water and Sewerage
America Movil	88,395	0	88,395	0	0
Telefonica SA	86,594	0	86,594	0	0
SUEZ	39,622	24,527	0	280	14,815
Vodafone	38,935	0	38,935	0	0
Telecom Italia	34,128	0	34,128	0	0
Bharti Airtel Limited	33,557	0	33,557	0	0
Reliance ADA Group	33,513	13,304	14,584	5,625	0
TeliaSonera	32,865	0	32,865	0	0
Telenor	28,995	0	28,995	0	0
Alfa Group	28,785	0	28,538	0	247


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