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 cost to start a business in Kazakhstan is 0.2% of income per capita, easing the entry of new firms.
Registering property
According to the World Bank, it takes 4.5 days to register a property in Kazakhstan, lower than the Upper Middle Income Countries’ average of 20 days. In 2019, Kazakhstan reviewed the process to register a property and decreased the cost of registration fees.
Strength of insolvency framework
Reforms to modernise Kazakhstan’s insolvency framework were implemented in 2014, resulting in a score higher than the Upper Middle Income Countries’ average of 63. Strong insolvency protections help attract companies to invest locally.
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
Permits:
Registering property
Regulatory frameworks:
Strength of insolvency framework
Opportunities to Grow
Post-completion reviews
Kazakhstan 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 for improvement.
Environmental impact analysis
According to the World Bank, Kazakhstan does not have a regulated requirement for environmental impact assessment. Undertaking environmental feasibility studies can help countries understand and balance environmental and infrastructure outcomes.
Value of close infrastructure deals with foreign equity sponsorship
Kazakhstan had 0.02% of GDP in deals with foreign equity over the last five years, lower than the Upper Middle Income Countries’ average of 0.14%. Kazakhstan is working to increase this, launching the Astana International Financial Centre in 2018 to facilitate an increased flow of foreign capital.
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.
Governance:
Post-completion reviews
Planning:
Environmental impact analysis
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.
Kazakhstan
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
10,306 USD
Population19.1 million persons
68.3 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment3.4% of GDP
Infrastructure gap1.3% of GDP
170.3 USD billion
GDP growth rate3.8%
GDP per capita growth rate-2.8%
Gini coefficient27.5 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt21.0% of GDP
Inflation rate5.3%
Summary credit rating56.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate5.4%
Urbanisation ratio57.0% of total population
Road connectivity79.3 (0-100 best)
3.6 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services4.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services4.3 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services3.3 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality5.1% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water10.0% of population
Reliability of water supply4.7 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.7 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions77.6 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions13.4 per 100 population