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
Through reforms conducted in 2019, Rwanda is now the top global performer (along with the United Kingdom and Slovenia) in this metric with no costs to start a business. This ease the entry of new firms.
Infrastructure investment
Rwanda, like many of its African peers, is a global top performer in infrastructure investment as a proportion of GDP, seeing an increase from 4% in 2012 to almost 9% in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic may impact these efforts.
Quality of land administration
Rwanda is one of three countries with the highest score in quality of land administration out of all 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:
Cost to start a business
Activity:
Infrastructure investment
Permits:
Quality of land administration
Opportunities to Grow
Shareholder governance
Rwanda is not considered to have strong legal protections for shareholders. A failure to adequately enforce disclosure and transparency standards lowers the confidence of investors, hurting entities that fund or deliver infrastructure.
GDP per capita
Despite being one of the fastest growing nations in Africa with a long-term GDP growth over 7%, Rwanda’s GDP per capita is low at USD 787. High growth, should it not be overly impacted by COVID-19, can be expected to correlate with greater infrastructure spending.
Private infrastructure investment
Despite high overall infrastructure investment, Rwanda performs poorly on private sector investment in infrastructure markets. At 0.07% of GDP, Rwandan private sector activity in the domestic infrastructure market is the second lowest in Africa. This may reflect government choices to publicly fund 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.
Governance:
Shareholder governance
Funding capacity:
GDP per capita
Activity:
Private infrastructure investment
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.
Rwanda
Low 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
854.1 USD
Population13.0 million persons
52.0 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment8.8% of GDP
Infrastructure gap2.6% of GDP
10.2 USD billion
GDP growth rate7.8%
GDP per capita growth rate4.9%
Gini coefficient43.7 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt49.0% of GDP
Inflation rate3.5%
Summary credit rating31.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate1.0%
Urbanisation ratio17.0% of total population
46.6 (0-100 best)
Quality of road infrastructure4.8 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.0 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services3.2 (1-7 best)
Electricity access42.7% of population
Exposure to unsafe drinking water61.6% of population
Reliability of water supply4.2 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.4 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions39.0 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions0.1 per 100 population