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
Transparency in public procurement
Belgium's public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. Transparent processes encourage more participants and competition, which drives value for money and improves infrastructure quality.
Recovery rate
World Bank data estimates the recovery rate for investors in Belgium to be 89.4 cents on the dollar, well above the 70.2 cent average in High Income Countries. The recovery rate reflects the strength of creditor protections.
Cost to start a business
According to the World Bank, the cost of starting a business in Belgium is equal to 5.3% of income per capita. This is slightly above the 4.7% average for High Income Countries. Lowering costs to start a business could ease the entry of new firms.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Procurement:
Transparency in public procurement
Governance:
Recovery rate
Permits:
Cost to start a business
Opportunities to Grow
Published project pipeline
Belgium 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
Belgium 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.
Post-completion reviews
Belgium does not undertake post-completion reviews for infrastructure projects. The implementation of post-completion reviews could help determine whether projects have achieved their objectives efficiently and identify areas for improvement.
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
Governance:
Post-completion reviews
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.
Belgium
High 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
51,849 USD
11.6 million persons
Infrastructure quality87.3 (0-100 best)
517.6 USD billion
GDP growth rate1.2%
GDP per capita growth rate-3.3%
Gini coefficient27.7 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt101.0% of GDP
Inflation rate1.5%
Summary credit rating88.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate6.4%
Urbanisation ratio98.0% of total population
Road connectivity90.9 (0-100 best)
4.4 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services4.1 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.6 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services5.6 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality4.2% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water0.3% of population
Reliability of water supply6.8 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.8 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions75.7 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions39.2 per 100 population