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
According to the World Bank, it takes one day to register a property in Qatar. This is a significant improvement on the previous average of 12 days due to a review of procedures and the digitisation of registration records.
GDP per capita
Qatar's GDP per capita has been increasing since 2016 and was USD 68,794 in 2018. Qatar has one of the highest GDP per capita rates in the world, driven by large natural resource reserves.
Cost to start a business
According to the World Bank it takes 6.3% of income per capita to start a business in Qatar. This is slightly above the 4.7% average for High Income Countries. Lowering costs to start a business could ease the entry of new firms.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Permits:
Registering property
Funding capacity:
GDP per capita
Permits:
Cost to start a business
Opportunities to Grow
Published infrastructure procurement guidelines
Qatar does not publish guidelines for the procurement of infrastructure projects. Publishing guidelines makes contractors aware of the government’s processes, expectations and requirements, improves transparency and helps the government achieve better value for money.
Economic analysis assessment
According to the World Bank, Qatar does not require the assessment of infrastructure projects based on their impact on the economy or community. Adding this requirement could improve the socio-economic outcomes of infrastructure projects.
PPP contract management
According to the World Bank, Qatar’s management of contracts requires better training systems and guidance for staff, effective milestone tracking systems, and public reporting of financial or operating performance.
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:
Economic analysis assessment
Procurement:
PPP contract management
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.
Qatar
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
68,622 USD
2.6 million persons
Infrastructure quality81.6 (0-100 best)
191.8 USD billion
GDP growth rate2.0%
GDP per capita growth rate-1.0%
Gross Government Debt53.0% of GDP
Inflation rate-0.4%
Summary credit rating85.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate0.1%
Urbanisation ratio99.0% of total population
Road connectivity92.0 (0-100 best)
5.5 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.7 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services5.4 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality6.0% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water10.4% of population
Reliability of water supply5.7 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.7 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions125.9 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions9.6 per 100 population