Overview
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expected to grow to 9.4 billion by 2050, driving the demand for vital resources and the infrastructure required to deliver them. Further, an increase in global personal wealth and spending power is already fueling unprecedented demand for goods—making strains on existing infrastructure apparent even now.
At the same time, a number of resource-rich emerging-market countries with rapidly growing economies are approaching plateaus in output due to infrastructure limitations. To support their further growth and aspirations of developed-market status, substantial outlays for infrastructure development will be required.
Together, these factors: a flourishing global population, an increase in personal wealth, the aspirations of growing emerging markets—as well as a larger focus on competitiveness—are expected to result in a period of unusually strong infrastructure development. Over the next 25 years, global infrastructure investment is projected to exceed $20 trillion1.
With the Dow Jones Brookfield Infrastructure Indexes℠ you get:
- A thoughtful approach to measuring those companies that own and operate infrastructure in developed and emerging markets
- Indexes for various sub-asset classes
- Indexes that adhere to Dow Jones standards for transparency and objectivity
All indexes in the Dow Jones Brookfield Index family are available for licensing as the basis for investment products.
1 "Foresight: Trends and Drivers in Intelligent Infrastructure Systems." Office of Science and Technology, World Bank, August 2006