Zambia Public private partnerships investment in energy (current US$)

Zambia Public private partnerships investment in energy (current US$): Key Points

• Zambia's public private partnerships investment in energy reached 7.50M USD current [USD_CUR] in 2023. That is down on the 830.00M USD current [USD_CUR] recorded in 2015, a fall of about 99%.
• 2017: drops hard to 59.00M USD current [USD_CUR] (-93%).
• 2018: down to 45.00M USD current [USD_CUR] (-24%).
• 2021: surges to 336.00M USD current [USD_CUR] (+647%).
• 2023: falls away sharply to 7.50M USD current [USD_CUR] (-98%).
• 2023: Series wraps up at 7.50M USD current [USD_CUR], a net 99.1% loss across the whole run.

Reading A Mixed Trend

This is a series to read year by year, not to summarize with a single trend line. Doing the latter would flatten out real, meaningful movement.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Zambia specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

Like most indicator series of this kind, the Zambia numbers here are compiled from periodic surveys and filled in with modeling for the years between — read the shape of the trend, hold individual annual figures loosely.

There's a real gap between 2015 and 2017 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.