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
Germany's public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. The transparency of the process encourages more participation and competition, which drive value for money.
Summary credit rating
Germany's institutional strength and high GDP per capita has seen it maintain a AAA credit rating from the major ratings agencies. Germany's good credit rating allows the government to borrow at a lower cost.
Strength of insolvency framework
The World Bank rates the strength of Germany's insolvency framework highly. Strong insolvency protections help to attract investment in infrastructure.
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
Funding capacity:
Summary credit rating
Regulatory frameworks:
Strength of insolvency framework
Opportunities to Grow
Published infrastructure procurement guidelines
Germany does not publish guidelines for the procurement of infrastructure projects. Publishing guidelines makes contractors aware of the government’s processes, expectations and requirements, improves transparency and helps the government achieve better value for money.
Published infrastructure plan
Germany does not have a cross-sectoral national or sub-national infrastructure plan. An infrastructure plan, in addition to the existing transport sector plan, could highlight infrastructure challenges, opportunities for investment and the government's planned responses.
Long term GDP growth trend
Global trade tensions and a persistent downturn in the automotive industry have seen German GDP growth forecasts reduced. This is likely to be compounded by the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global economic activity.
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.
Procurement:
Published infrastructure procurement guidelines
Planning:
Published infrastructure plan
Funding capacity:
Long term GDP growth trend
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.
Germany
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
51,238 USD
Population83.2 million persons
90.2 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment1.5% of GDP
Infrastructure gap0.0% of GDP
3,863 USD billion
GDP growth rate0.5%
GDP per capita growth rate-2.3%
Gini coefficient31.7 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt59.0% of GDP
Inflation rate1.5%
Summary credit rating100.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate3.2%
Urbanisation ratio77.0% of total population
Road connectivity95.1 (0-100 best)
5.3 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services4.9 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.5 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services5.2 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality4.3% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water0.3% of population
Reliability of water supply6.1 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.8 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions81.6 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions41.1 per 100 population