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
Private infrastructure investment
At 1.4% of GDP, Jordan has one of the highest levels of private investment in infrastructure as a share of GDP globally. To continue attracting capital to fund infrastructure projects, Jordan has developed a pipeline of projects to identify medium and long-term investment opportunities.
Value of close infrastructure deals with foreign equity sponsorship
At 0.83% of GDP, Jordan has one of the highest levels of closed infrastructure deals with foreign equity sponsorship among InfraCompass 2020 countries. A high value may reflect favourable trade conditions and lower barriers to foreign investment. The COVID-19 pandemic may impact international capital flows.
Financial stability
Jordan has stable financial markets, supported by a higher than required Capital Adequacy Ratio of 16.9%. A stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between infrastructure assets and investors. The long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic may affect stability.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Activity:
Private infrastructure investment
Financial markets:
Financial stability
Opportunities to Grow
Stocks traded
Jordan traded stocks worth approximately 5.5% of GDP in 2019, below the Upper Middle Income Countries’ average of 25.6% of GDP. As this indicator measures the liquidity of equities, it is important to infrastructure investors to know they can exit investments at appropriate points.
Gross government debt
At 94.6% of GDP, Jordan has the highest level of gross government debt among Upper Middle Income Countries. Considering the existing high level of debt and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, this may hinder Jordan’s ability to invest in infrastructure projects.
Long term GDP growth trend
Jordan’s long-term GDP growth is 2.7%, which is lower than the 3.1% average for Upper Middle Income Countries. Combined with the uncertain impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this growth trend may hamper Jordan’s ability to borrow and build more infrastructure.
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.
Financial markets:
Stocks traded
Funding capacity:
Gross government debt
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.
Jordan
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
4,412 USD
Population10.3 million persons
67.4 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment4.8% of GDP
Infrastructure gap1.2% of GDP
44.2 USD billion
GDP growth rate2.2%
GDP per capita growth rate2.7%
Gini coefficient33.7 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt95.0% of GDP
Inflation rate2.0%
Summary credit rating35.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate14.9%
Urbanisation ratio91.0% of total population
Road connectivity76.9 (0-100 best)
4.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services2.6 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services4.4 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality10.3% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water9.4% of population
Reliability of water supply4.9 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.5 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions87.6 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions3.9 per 100 population