World Bank · Infrastructure
Investment in telecoms with private participation
Investment in telecom projects with private participation refers to commitments to infrastructure projects in telecommunications that have reached financial closure and directly or indirectly serve the public. Movable assets and small projects are excluded. The types of projects included are management and lease contracts, operations and management contracts with major capital expenditure, greenfield projects (in which a private entity or a public-private joint venture builds and operates a new facility), and divestitures. Investment commitments are the sum of investments in facilities and investments in government assets. Investments in facilities are the resources the project company commits to invest during the contract period either in new facilities or in expansion and modernization of existing facilities. Investments in government assets are the resources the project company spends on acquiring government assets such as state-owned enterprises, rights to provide services in a specific area, or the use of specific radio spectrums. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
- Coverage
- 132 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2014
- Series
- 132
- Unit
- current USD
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-07
- Indicator
- investment-in-telecoms-with-private-participation
- Interva ID
- worldbank-investment-in-telecoms-with-private-participation
Recency
stale
data to 2014; catalog to 2025
Provenance
2 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
0%Latest observation is 2014; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 11 year(s) behind (stale).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
92%81 of 132 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 92% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 132 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 15 observations; the earliest begins in 1990.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-08.
By country
Investment in telecoms with private participation for each of the 132 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Afghanistan 2002–2012
- Albania 2000–2013
- Algeria 2001–2014
- Angola 2001–2012
- Antigua and Barbuda 2003–2012
- Argentina 1990–2014
- Armenia 1998–2014
- Azerbaijan 1994–2014
- Bangladesh 1990–2014
- Belarus 1992–2014
- Belize 1990–2005
- Benin 2000–2014
- Bhutan 2006–2006
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1990–2014
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006–2013
- Botswana 1998–2012
- Brazil 1990–2014
- Bulgaria 1993–2014
- Burkina Faso 2000–2014
- Burundi 1993–2011
- Cabo Verde 1995–2012
- Cambodia 1992–2012
- Cameroon 1999–2014
- Central African Republic 1995–2013
- Chad 1999–2014
- Chile 1990–2014
- China 1997–2004
- Colombia 1994–2014
- Congo 1995–2014
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 1997–2014
- Costa Rica 2011–2014
- Côte d'Ivoire 1996–2014
- Cuba 1993–2002
- Dominica 1990–2012
- Dominican Republic 1994–2014
- Ecuador 1994–2014
- Egypt 1998–2014
- El Salvador 1996–2014
- Eritrea 2001–2001
- Eswatini 1998–2011
- Fiji 1994–2014
- Gabon 1999–2014
- Gambia 2001–2007
- Georgia 1993–2014
- Ghana 1992–2014
- Grenada 1990–2012
- Guatemala 1995–2014
- Guinea 1995–2014
- Guinea-Bissau 2001–2014
- Guyana 1991–2007
- Haiti 1998–2007
- Honduras 1996–2014
- India 1994–2014
- Indonesia 1993–2014
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 1995–2014
- Iraq 2003–2014
- Jamaica 1990–2012
- Jordan 1994–2014
- Kazakhstan 1994–2014
- Kenya 1999–2014
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 2008–2010
- Kosovo 2007–2014
- Kyrgyzstan 1996–2014
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 1996–2009
- Lebanon 1994–2002
- Lesotho 1996–2012
- Liberia 2004–2011
- Lithuania 1992–2013
- Madagascar 1994–2014
- Malawi 1995–2014
- Malaysia 1990–2014
- Maldives 1995–2014
- Mali 2002–2014
- Mauritania 2000–2010
- Mauritius 2001–2012
- Mexico 1990–2014
- Moldova, Republic of 1998–2014
- Mongolia 1995–2003
- Montenegro 1996–2014
- Morocco 1999–2014
- Mozambique 1997–2012
- Myanmar 2014–2014
- Namibia 1995–2013
- Nepal 2000–2007
- Nicaragua 1993–2014
- Niger 2000–2014
- Nigeria 1997–2014
- North Macedonia 2001–2014
- Pakistan 1990–2014
- Palestine, State of 1995–2014
- Panama 1996–2014
- Papua New Guinea 2007–2007
- Paraguay 1992–2014
- Peru 1990–2014
- Philippines 1990–2014
- Romania 1993–2014
- Russian Federation 1991–2014
- Rwanda 1999–2012
- Saint Lucia 2003–2012
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1990–2012
- Samoa 1997–1997
- Sao Tome and Principe 2002–2012
- Senegal 1997–2014
- Serbia 1997–2014
- Seychelles 1995–2011
- Sierra Leone 1998–2014
- Solomon Islands 2005–2006
- Somalia 2000–2005
- South Africa 1994–2014
- South Sudan 2011–2014
- Sri Lanka 1993–2014
- Sudan 1996–2014
- Suriname 2007–2007
- Syrian Arab Republic 2001–2014
- Tajikistan 1996–2014
- Tanzania, United Republic of 1994–2014
- Thailand 1990–2014
- Togo 1999–2014
- Tonga 2001–2003
- Tunisia 2002–2014
- Türkiye 1994–2014
- Turkmenistan 2000–2014
- Uganda 1994–2014
- Ukraine 1992–2014
- Uruguay 1992–2014
- Uzbekistan 1992–2014
- Vanuatu 1992–2008
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1991–2014
- Viet Nam 1995–2009
- Yemen 1990–2011
- Zambia 1997–2014
- Zimbabwe 1998–2014
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 2014 | 742.34M | current USD |
| Argentina | 2014 | 2.34B | current USD |
| Armenia | 2014 | 55.00M | current USD |
| Azerbaijan | 2014 | 44.46M | current USD |
| Bangladesh | 2014 | 657.10M | current USD |
| Belarus | 2014 | 142.86M | current USD |
| Benin | 2014 | 51.00M | current USD |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 2014 | 69.30M | current USD |
| Brazil | 2014 | 12.62B | current USD |
| Bulgaria | 2014 | 359.38M | current USD |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim
World Bank, Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database (http://ppi.worldbank.org).
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
Sustainable Development Goals
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Investment in telecoms with private participation. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-investment-in-telecoms-with-private-participation (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
@misc{interva-worldbank-investment-in-telecoms-with-private-participation,
title = {Investment in telecoms with private participation},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-investment-in-telecoms-with-private-participation}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-investment-in-telecoms-with-private-participation; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
urldate = {2026-11-08}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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