Driver Overview
This section shows a country’s rank, ranking change and score for each of the eight drivers. It also categorises each country’s driver performance on a scale from “Emerging” (score from 0-20) to “Global Leader” (score from 80-100).
Rank
Score /100
Best practice
Metric Overview
Strengths
Cost to start a business
According to the World Bank, the average cost of starting a business is 1% of income per capita, which is lower than the average for Upper Middle Income Countries. This eases the entry of new firms.
Infrastructure investment
Investment in infrastructure is a priority for Azerbaijan, at 8% of GDP per annum, one of the highest investment rates in InfraCompass 2020. It is unclear if the COVID-19 pandemic will impact these efforts.
Registering property
According to the World Bank, it takes 4.5 days to register a property in Azerbaijan, shorter than the 20 day average for Upper Middle Income Countries. This is due to Azerbaijan increasing the coverage of its land and property register and digital plans.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Permits:
Cost to start a business
Activity:
Infrastructure investment
Permits:
Registering property
Opportunities to Grow
Published project pipeline
Azerbaijan does not currently have an infrastructure pipeline of projects. The addition of an infrastructure pipeline could help provide infrastructure participants with a clear indication of prospective and confirmed infrastructure activity.
Published infrastructure plan
Azerbaijan does not have a national or sub-national infrastructure plan. The addition of an infrastructure plan could highlight infrastructure challenges and opportunities for investment, as well as detail the government's planned responses.
Market sounding and/or assessment
According to the World Bank, there is no formal requirement for a market sounding process in Azerbaijan. Adding one could allow the government to determine if there is an interest from investors and lenders to provide commercial financing for projects.
Metrics to Improve
Metrics to Improve
This is defined by the metrics with the lowest weighted score out of 100, such that these metrics would have the greatest impact on the overall score.
For metrics that have binary outcomes (yes=100/no=0), no comparative income group average is reported.
Planning:
Published project pipeline
Planning:
Published infrastructure plan
Planning:
Market sounding and/or assessment
Detailed Data
This section shows country data for each of the 41 metrics. The figures in brackets denote the change in score since InfraCompass 2017.
Note that all data has been normalised on a scale of 1-100. For raw metric data, please download the complete InfraCompass 2020 dataset.
Where relevant, some metric scores have been inverted, such that all metrics have positive relationships with good infrastructure outcomes. For example, since lower compliance costs make it easier to invest in infrastructure, the normalised value of ‘number of procedures to start a business’ has been reversed such that lower number of procedures are scored closer to 100, and higher numbers closer to 0. In other words, a score of 0 indicates a poor performance, rather than 0 number of procedures.
28.2%
The recovery rate is recorded as cents on the dollar recovered by secured creditors through reorganisation, liquidation or debt enforcement (foreclosure or receivership) proceedings.
20.7%
World Governance Composite Indicator reflecting perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. The rule of law reflects whether the law imposes limits of power on the state, private sector and individuals.
18.1%
Whether the country conducts post-completion reviews on infrastructure projects to ensure the forecast outcomes are being achieved.
15.1%
Measures the governance practices that protect shareholders through three dimensions: the extent of shareholder rights index (shareholders’ rights and role in major corporate decisions), the extent of ownership and control index (governance safeguards protecting shareholders from undue board control and entrenchment), and the extent of corporate transparency index (corporate transparency on ownership stakes).
12.8%
Political stability and absence of violence score
Measures perceptions of the likelihood of political instability and/or politically-motivated violence, including terrorism. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5.
5%
Whether an infrastructure agency exists to coordinate an integrated approach to infrastructure delivery and policy.
Azerbaijan
Upper-middle Income Countries Average
Description
The recovery rate is recorded as cents on the dollar recovered by secured creditors through reorganisation, liquidation or debt enforcement (foreclosure or receivership) proceedings.
Weighting (% of Driver)
28.2%
Source Link
Description
World Governance Composite Indicator reflecting perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. The rule of law reflects whether the law imposes limits of power on the state, private sector and individuals.
Weighting (% of Driver)
20.7%
Description
Whether the country conducts post-completion reviews on infrastructure projects to ensure the forecast outcomes are being achieved.
Weighting (% of Driver)
18.1%
Source Link
Description
Measures the governance practices that protect shareholders through three dimensions: the extent of shareholder rights index (shareholders’ rights and role in major corporate decisions), the extent of ownership and control index (governance safeguards protecting shareholders from undue board control and entrenchment), and the extent of corporate transparency index (corporate transparency on ownership stakes).
Weighting (% of Driver)
15.1%
Source Link
Description
Measures perceptions of the likelihood of political instability and/or politically-motivated violence, including terrorism. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5.
Weighting (% of Driver)
12.8%
Description
Whether an infrastructure agency exists to coordinate an integrated approach to infrastructure delivery and policy.
Weighting (% of Driver)
5%
Source Link
Country Overview Data
5,398 USD
Population10.1 million persons
77.4 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment5.6% of GDP
Infrastructure gap0.4% of GDP
47.2 USD billion
GDP growth rate2.7%
GDP per capita growth rate-0.7%
Gini coefficient26.6 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt20.0% of GDP
Inflation rate2.8%
Summary credit rating50.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate5.4%
Urbanisation ratio56.0% of total population
Road connectivity69.1 (0-100 best)
5.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services5.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.8 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services5.1 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality9.8% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water10.3% of population
Reliability of water supply5.2 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.6 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions59.6 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions18.2 per 100 population