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 now takes an average of one and a half days to register a property in Saudi Arabia. This marks a significant improvement on the average of 8 days it took in 2014 and compares favourably with the 26.6 day average across the Middle East and North Africa.
Financial stability
Saudi Arabia's banking sector shows resilience and stability, with indicators showing a liquid and well-capitalised system.
Cost to start a business
According to the World Bank it takes 5.4% of income per capita to start a business, 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
Financial markets:
Financial stability
Permits:
Cost to start a business
Opportunities to Grow
Recovery rate
According to the World Bank, the recovery rate for insolvency in Saudi Arabia is low, due to a deficiency of bankruptcy and insolvency laws. However, Saudi Arabia has recognised this and a new Insolvency Law was introduced in April 2019 as part of Saudi Vision 2030. As data for the World Bank's Doing Business Report was collected between February and June 2019, it does not account for the outcomes of the new Insolvency Law. Given this, it is anticipated that this metric will improve in the foreseeable future.
Strength of insolvency framework
Historically, Saudi Arabia has lacked modern bankruptcy regulations. However, given the recent introduction of a new Insolvency Law, this metric is also anticipated to improve in the foreseeable future when the new law is reflected in updated data in the World Bank Business Report.
Economic analysis assessment
According to the World Bank, Saudi Arabia does not require the assessment of infrastructure projects based on their impact on the economy or community.
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:
Recovery rate
Regulatory frameworks:
Strength of insolvency framework
Planning:
Economic analysis assessment
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.
Saudi Arabia
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
23,507 USD
Population35.5 million persons
78.1 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment2.5% of GDP
Infrastructure gap0.5% of GDP
779.3 USD billion
GDP growth rate0.2%
GDP per capita growth rate-2.9%
Gini coefficient42.2 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt23.0% of GDP
Inflation rate-1.1%
Summary credit rating76.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate5.9%
Urbanisation ratio84.0% of total population
Road connectivity100.0 (0-100 best)
5.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services4.5 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.4 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services4.8 (1-7 best)
Electricity access99.4% of population
Electricity supply quality8.1% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water9.5% of population
Reliability of water supply5.8 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.7 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions111.1 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions5.6 per 100 population