Social infrastructure as a factor of sustainable development of the territory

Social infrastructure plays an important role in creating conditions to meet the material and spiritual needs of population, reproduction human capital, integrated development territory. The subject research is social infrastructure. purpose this article show as a factor sustainable To achieve goal, following tasks were solved: identify essence structure infrastructure, its world economy individual countries, consider main functions methods used: descriptive, comparative analysis synthesis characterize system approach – results obtained: it revealed that currently there no consensus definition category "social infrastructure" composition; shown traditional types services are replenished by new services; reproductive characterized. Conclusions: actively developing world, which makes significant contribution GDP employment However, level depends on number internal external factors. It necessary develop effective policy each country subregions.