Thailand Investment in energy with private participation (current US$)

Thailand Investment in energy with private participation (current US$): Key Points

• Thailand's investment in energy with private participation reached 794.51M USD current [USD_CUR] in 2022. That is down on the 3.54B USD current [USD_CUR] recorded in 2014, a fall of about 78%.
• 2016: collapses to 433.28M USD current [USD_CUR] (-74%).
• 2017: leaps to 1.47B USD current [USD_CUR] (+239%).
• 2020: falls away sharply to 254.80M USD current [USD_CUR] (-85%).
• 2022: shoots up to 794.51M USD current [USD_CUR] (+212%).
• By the last year on record, 2022, the figure sits at 794.51M USD current [USD_CUR] — 77.5% below 2014.

Reading A Choppy Series

This is not a clean trend line, so resist the urge to draw one. Thailand's number moves both directions across the period — treat any single year as a snapshot, not a forecast.

The single most useful thing to do with this chart is compare Thailand against its neighbors or peers on the same investment in energy with private participation series, not read the line in isolation — a number only means something relative to where everyone else stands.

As with almost all cross-national statistical series, this one blends real survey years with modeled estimates for the gaps — the year-to-year precision is lower than the chart's smooth line suggests.

There's a real gap between 2020 and 2022 in the underlying data — not a zero, not an interpolated value, just missing. Don't read a straight line between those two points as what actually happened in between.