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
The Netherland’s public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents transparently detail procurement procedures. The transparency of the process encourages more participation and competition, which can drive value for money.
Summary credit rating
The Netherlands’ institutional strength and high per capita income have helped it maintain a AAA credit rating from the major ratings agencies. The Netherlands’ credit rating and sound macro-financial management allow the government to borrow at a lower cost to fund investment in infrastructure.
Registering property
In the Netherlands it takes just 2.5 days to register a property, a fraction of the 25 day European average. As infrastructure projects often involve some transfer of property rights, an efficient registration process reduces project cost and risk.
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
Permits:
Registering property
Opportunities to Grow
Long term GDP growth trend
The Netherlands’ long-term GDP growth trend decreased to 0.9%, below the High Income Countries’ average of 1.9%. Combined with the uncertain impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, low growth may hamper the Netherlands’ ability to borrow and build more infrastructure.
Gross government debt
The Netherlands' gross government debt sits at 49% of GDP, lower than the High Income Countries’ average of 74% of GDP. However, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic may expand government debt further, and hinder Netherland’s ability to invest in infrastructure.
Dealing with construction permits
According to the World Bank, in the Netherlands it takes an average of 161 days to deal with construction permits. Expediting this process could significantly impact investment in infrastructure by helping to reduce delays.
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.
Funding capacity:
Long term GDP growth trend
Funding capacity:
Gross government debt
Permits:
Dealing with construction permits
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.
Netherlands
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
57,997 USD
17.5 million persons
Infrastructure quality94.3 (0-100 best)
902.4 USD billion
GDP growth rate1.8%
GDP per capita growth rate-1.6%
Gini coefficient28.2 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt49.0% of GDP
Inflation rate2.5%
Summary credit rating100.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate3.8%
Urbanisation ratio91.0% of total population
Road connectivity89.0 (0-100 best)
6.4 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services5.7 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services6.4 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services6.4 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality4.5% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water0.2% of population
Reliability of water supply6.9 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.8 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions90.9 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions42.4 per 100 population