Infrastructure Financing through Islamic
Finance in the Islamic Countries
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Chart 2.10: Total Infrastructure Investments Private Sector Contribution to Infrastructure
Investments (% in Selected OIC Member Countries 2011-2015)
Source
Chart 2.10 shows the infrastructure investments and the private sector’s contribution to
investment in the sector for selected OIC member countries.8 While Morocco and Senegal have
made significant investments in infrastructure during 2011-2015, with 46% and 37.1% of the
GDP respectively, investments in that sector in many other countries have been modest. The
chart also shows that the contribution of the private sector to infrastructure investments
varies across different countries. While the private sector has played an important role in
some countries such as Senegal (14.04% of GDP), Morocco (8.26% of GDP) and Turkey (6.71%
of GDP), in other countries its contribution has been small. In some countries such as Benin,
Egypt and Guinea, the private sector investment in infrastructure has been less than 1% over
the period 2011-2015.
Chart 2.11 shows the investment in different infrastructure sectors in OIC member countries
during the periods 2005-2010 and 2010-2015. While most investments during 2005-2010
were in the telecommunications sector (65.7%), during the subsequent five years the
investments went into the energy (40.5%) and transport (30.8%) sectors.
8 The OIC countries included in the chart are among the 56 countries included in the GIHub database.
20.7%
14.8%
14.7%
26.4%
21.0%
46.0%
17.8%
23.8%
19.3%
37.1%
9.8%
13.9%
0.37%
3.01%
0.30%
0.46%
1.04%
8.26%
3.13%
1.33%
1.09%
1.91%
14.04%
3.21%
6.71%
2.79%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
Benin
Cote d'Ivore
Egypt
Guinea
Indonesia
Morocco
Malaysia
Nigeria
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Tunisia
Turkey
UAE
Total value of private finance infrastructure (% of GDP) Total infrastructure investment (% GDP)