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
Registering property
In Malaysia, it takes 11.5 days to register a property, which is less than the Upper Middle Income Countries’ average of 21.7 days. As infrastructure projects often involve some transfer of property rights, an efficient registration process reduces project cost and risk.
Financial stability
Malaysia has high financial stability, although the COVID-19 pandemic may impact this. A stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between infrastructure and investors, improving capital supply for projects.
Quality of land administration
Malaysia has one of the highest quality of land administration out of the InfraCompass 2020 countries. A high quality system ensures reliable and accurate information is available to help governments determine where infrastructure projects can be undertaken.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Permits:
Registering property
Financial markets:
Financial stability
Permits:
Quality of land administration
Opportunities to Grow
Published project pipeline
Malaysia does not currently publish 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
Malaysia does not have a national or sub-national infrastructure plan. The addition of an infrastructure plan could highlight challenges and opportunities for infrastructure investment, as well as detail the government's planned responses.
Value of closed PPP infrastructure deals
At only 0.04% of GDP, the value of closed PPP infrastructure deals is one of the lowest among Upper Middle Income Countries and well below the average of 0.11%. A low value may reflect a preference for publicly-funded models.
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
Activity:
Value of closed PPP infrastructure deals
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.
Malaysia
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
11,408 USD
Population32.7 million persons
78.0 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment3.7% of GDP
Infrastructure gap0.6% of GDP
365.3 USD billion
GDP growth rate4.5%
GDP per capita growth rate0.6%
Gini coefficient41.0 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt56.0% of GDP
Inflation rate1.0%
Summary credit rating66.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate3.4%
Urbanisation ratio76.0% of total population
Road connectivity40.0 (0-100 best)
5.3 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services5.1 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.5 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services5.2 (1-7 best)
Electricity access98.2% of population
Electricity supply quality6.9% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water12.0% of population
Reliability of water supply5.4 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.7 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions116.7 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions8.6 per 100 population