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
Public procurement regulation in Ethiopia follows international best practices, recognising a range of procurement processes and ensuring access to information about tendering opportunities. Open bidding accounted for almost 95% of procurements in 2019.
Infrastructure investment
Investment in infrastructure is a priority under Ethiopia's Growth and Transformation Plans (GTP) I and II. As part of GTP II, the government is continuing to expand physical infrastructure through public investments.
Long term GDP growth trend
Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with an average GDP growth of 9.9% a year from 2008 to 2018. This has been driven by economic reforms and public investment programs fostering growth in the private sector.
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
Activity:
Infrastructure investment
Funding capacity:
Long term GDP growth trend
Opportunities to Grow
Published infrastructure procurement guidelines
While its transparency in public procurement is excellent, Ethiopia does not publish infrastructure specific guidelines for procurement. Publishing guidelines makes contractors more aware of the government’s processes, expectations and requirements.
Published project pipeline
Ethiopia does not currently have a pipeline of infrastructure projects. The addition of an infrastructure pipeline could help provide infrastructure participants with a clear indication of prospective and confirmed infrastructure activity.
Post-completion reviews
Ethiopia 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 better identify areas of 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.
Procurement:
Published infrastructure procurement guidelines
Planning:
Published project pipeline
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.
Ethiopia
Low 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
995.7 USD
Population99.7 million persons
43.4 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment17.9% of GDP
Infrastructure gap5.6% of GDP
91.2 USD billion
GDP growth rate7.4%
GDP per capita growth rate11.8%
Gini coefficient35.0 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt59.0% of GDP
Inflation rate14.6%
Summary credit rating31.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate1.8%
Urbanisation ratio21.0% of total population
Road connectivity53.3 (0-100 best)
3.0 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services3.0 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services3.3 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services2.8 (1-7 best)
Electricity access44.8% of population
Electricity supply quality17.3% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water69.8% of population
Reliability of water supply3.8 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.3 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions13.9 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions0.1 per 100 population