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Investment in ICT with private participation

The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Database records contractual arrangements for public infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) that have reached financial closure, in which private parties assume operating risk. Investment in ICT projects with private participation refers to commitments to infrastructure projects in ICT (including land based and submarine cables except purely private telecoms. Instead, it will track ICT backbone infrastructure (fiber optic cables etc) that has an active government component) that have reached financial closure and directly or indirectly serve the public. The types of projects included are management and lease contracts, brownfield projects, greenfield projects (in which a private entity or a public-private joint venture builds and operates a new facility), and divestitures. Investments are classified as one of two types: (1) Investments in physical assets: resources the project company commits to invest in expanding and modernizing facilities and (2) payments to the government: to acquire state-owned enterprises or rights to provide services in a specific area or to use radio spectrum. Data is presented based on investment year. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Coverage
116 of 238 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
116
Unit
current USD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
investment-in-ict-with-private-participation
Interva ID
worldbank-investment-in-ict-with-private-participation

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

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Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

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

25%

76 of 116 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 25% 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 116 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 2 observations; the earliest begins in 1985.

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 ICT with private participation for each of the 116 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Argentina2024110.00Mcurrent USD
Brazil2024981.61Mcurrent USD
Cambodia202419.97Mcurrent USD
China2024566.21Mcurrent USD
Ghana202420.00Mcurrent USD
India20241.08Bcurrent USD
Kenya202450.00Mcurrent USD
Malaysia20246.43Bcurrent USD
Mexico2024115.00Mcurrent USD
Nepal202410.54Mcurrent 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

    World Bank

    Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, World Bank (WB), uri: http://ppi.worldbank.org

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    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 ICT with private participation. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-investment-in-ict-with-private-participation (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-investment-in-ict-with-private-participation,
  title        = {Investment in ICT with private participation},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-investment-in-ict-with-private-participation}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-investment-in-ict-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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