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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	1,533
East Asia and Pacific	1,462
South Asia	699
Europe and Central Asia	680
Sub-Saharan Africa	400
Middle East and North Africa	134

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

Region	Project Investment
Latin America and the Caribbean	629,044
East Asia and Pacific	326,138
South Asia	297,395
Europe and Central Asia	253,021
Sub-Saharan Africa	108,458
Middle East and North Africa	81,121

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	105	36	7	43	7	0	12
NWS Holdings Limited	69	69	0	0	0	0	0
AES Corporation	68	14	10	34	1	5	4
Xinao Gas Holdings Limited	64	64	0	0	0	0	0
Veolia Environnement	50	20	6	9	5	3	7
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	37	23	0	4	1	7	2
Hong Kong and China Gas Company	34	34	0	0	0	0	0
ACS Group (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios)	32	1	0	28	1	1	1
China Gas Holdings Limited	30	30	0	0	0	0	0
Reliance ADA Group	30	0	0	0	0	30	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
Telefonica SA	81,392	0	0	81,392	0	0	0
America Movil	45,096	0	0	44,866	0	8	0
SUEZ	40,480	11,225	2,180	23,694	3,217	0	164
AT&T	37,299	0	252	36,429	0	9	0
Carso Group	36,109	0	0	36,109	0	0	0
Vodafone	34,652	114	6,466	0	4,839	12	11,296
Bharti Airtel Limited	33,166	0	0	0	0	66	12,011
Reliance ADA Group	32,383	0	0	0	0	55	0
Telecom Italia	32,019	0	320	31,699	0	0	0
TeliaSonera	28,193	2,151	25,697	0	0	10	0

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

Sponsor	Total	Energy	Telecom	Transport	Water and Sewerage
SUEZ	105	46	0	3	56
NWS Holdings Limited	69	5	0	45	19
AES Corporation	68	68	0	0	0
Xinao Gas Holdings Limited	64	64	0	0	0
Veolia Environnement	50	7	0	0	43
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	37	0	9	28	0
Hong Kong and China Gas Company	34	32	0	0	2
ACS Group (Actividades de Construccion y Servicios)	32	11	0	17	4
China Gas Holdings Limited	30	30	0	0	0
Reliance ADA Group	30	16	2	12	0

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

Sponsor	Total Investment	Energy	Telecom	Transport	Water and Sewerage
Telefonica SA	81,392	0	81,392	0	0
America Movil	45,096	0	45,096	0	0
SUEZ	40,480	25,354	0	311	14,815
AT&T	37,299	0	37,299	0	0
Carso Group	36,109	0	35,379	730	0
Vodafone	34,652	0	34,652	0	0
Bharti Airtel Limited	33,166	0	33,166	0	0
Reliance ADA Group	32,383	13,155	14,274	4,954	0
Telecom Italia	32,019	0	32,019	0	0
TeliaSonera	28,193	0	28,193	0	0


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Featured Rankings, 1990 to 2011