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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

Measured

Covers 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

Measured

The 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

Measured

No 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 assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-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.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Algeria2014742.34Mcurrent USD
Argentina20142.34Bcurrent USD
Armenia201455.00Mcurrent USD
Azerbaijan201444.46Mcurrent USD
Bangladesh2014657.10Mcurrent USD
Belarus2014142.86Mcurrent USD
Benin201451.00Mcurrent USD
Bolivia, Plurinational State of201469.30Mcurrent USD
Brazil201412.62Bcurrent USD
Bulgaria2014359.38Mcurrent USD

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. 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

  2. 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.

BibTeX
@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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