2026 EDITION

STRATEGIC

100

GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT

CG/LA’s annual ranking of the Global Infrastructure Market Place.

$310B

100

PROJECTS

PIPELINE VALUE

8

47

COUNTRIES

SECTORS

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Forty-one pages: the complete ranked list, the methodology, eight spotlights, and our recommendations to governments. Free, and yours in one click.

WHAT IS INSIDE

Forty-one pages, seven sections.


01

Executive Summary & Methodology

The hundred projects that lead the list, and how they were chosen and balanced.


02

A global map and the figures behind it, showing value and count by sector, region, stage and quality.

Projects by the Numbers


03

Eight themes shaping the list, each carried by a marquee project.

Spotlights


04

Analysis & Recommendations

What the pipeline shows, the conclusions that follow, and eight recommendations to governments.


05

The Top 100

The full ranked project list, in methodology-score order.


A

Western Hemispheric Corridors

South America’s Southern Rail Network, Tecon Santos 10, and the wider Western Hemisphere corridor buildout.


B

CG/LA Infrastructure and the Strategic Infrastructure Performance Institute: mission, leadership and the team behind this edition.

About Us


THIS YEAR’S FINDING

Money is no longer the binding constraint.

Drawn from a significantly larger set of live projects, then ranked on the merits. One project in eighteen made the final hundred.

Projects analysed

1,834

Eighty of the hundred are in procurement or construction, at an average methodology score of 74 out of 100. This is a near-term list.

Already moving

80%

Roughly double what the world invests today. Public budgets alone will not cover it, and good intentions will not build it.

Needed every year

$5.5tn

A project that clears review in a year in one country waits a decade in another. That gap, not the size of any balance sheet, now separates the countries that build from the ones that fall behind.

STRATEGIC 100 - 2026 EDITION - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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