Country Overview
Finland's regulatory frameworks support the creation of businesses and provide strong protections against insolvency. Combined with a high-quality legal system and stable financial sector, this encourages new investment and promotes competition among suppliers. Despite an improvement in process transparency, the length of Finland's procurement processes add costs and down-time for contractors bidding for and investing in projects. It could further improve procurement processes by publishing procurement guidelines for infrastructure projects.
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GDP per capita
53,774 USD
Population
5.5 million persons
Infrastructure quality
83.4 (0-100 best)

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).

Driver
Rank
Score /100
Emerging Aspiring Contender Top performer Global Leader
- No ranking change Ranking increase Ranking decrease

Rank

Score /100

Best practice

14
1
76.7
Global Leader
5
2
78.0
Global Leader
25
4
79.6
Top performer
50
3
65.5
Aspiring
67
2
52.3
Emerging
53
8
25.4
Aspiring
11
-
75.1
Global Leader
9
3
71.8
Global Leader

Metric Overview

Strengths

Transparency in public procurement

Finland's public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. This transparency encourages more participation and competition, which drives value for money and improves outcomes.

Cost to start a business

According to the World Bank, it costs 0.7% of income per capita to start a business in Finland, well below the 4.7% average for High Income Countries, easing the entry of new firms.

Financial stability

According to the World Bank, the quality of Finland's financial sector ranks third globally, with Finnish banks rated as the most sound. Finland's stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between investors and projects, improving capital supply for projects. The long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is a concern.

Transparency in public procurement

Finland's public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. This transparency encourages more participation and competition, which drives value for money and improves outcomes.

Cost to start a business

According to the World Bank, it costs 0.7% of income per capita to start a business in Finland, well below the 4.7% average for High Income Countries, easing the entry of new firms.

Financial stability

According to the World Bank, the quality of Finland's financial sector ranks third globally, with Finnish banks rated as the most sound. Finland's stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between investors and projects, improving capital supply for projects. The long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is a concern.

Top Performing Metrics

Top Performing Metrics

This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100. 

High income country average

Financial markets:
Financial stability

Opportunities to Grow

Published infrastructure procurement guidelines

Finland 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.

Published infrastructure plan

Finland does not have a national or sub-national infrastructure plan. The addition of an infrastructure plan could highlight infrastructure challenges and opportunities for investment, as well as detail the government's planned responses.

Infrastructure or PPP agency

Finland does not have a national agency dedicated to Infrastructure or PPP. The addition of a national agency or PPP unit could help with the development of infrastructure frameworks to aid consistent design and implementation of infrastructure projects.

Published infrastructure procurement guidelines

Finland 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.

Published infrastructure plan

Finland does not have a national or sub-national infrastructure plan. The addition of an infrastructure plan could highlight infrastructure challenges and opportunities for investment, as well as detail the government's planned responses.

Infrastructure or PPP agency

Finland does not have a national agency dedicated to Infrastructure or PPP. The addition of a national agency or PPP unit could help with the development of infrastructure frameworks to aid consistent design and implementation of infrastructure projects.

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.

High income country average

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.

Governance Regulatory Permits Planning Procurement Activity Funding Financial
Driver
Rank
Score /100
Emerging Aspiring Contender Top performer Global Leader
- No ranking change Ranking increase Ranking decrease

Metric

Finland

High Income Countries Average

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28.2%

Recovery rate

The recovery rate is recorded as cents on the dollar recovered by secured creditors through reorganisation, liquidation or debt enforcement (foreclosure or receivership) proceedings.

88.0 (-2.3)
68.3

20.7%

Rule of law

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.

90.9 (+0.6)
74.3

18.1%

Post-completion reviews

Whether the country conducts post-completion reviews on infrastructure projects to ensure the forecast outcomes are being achieved.

Yes
-

15.1%

Shareholder governance

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).

43.3
48.1

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.

65.4 (-1.2)
61.9

5%

Infrastructure or PPP agency

Whether an infrastructure agency exists to coordinate an integrated approach to infrastructure delivery and policy.

No
-

Finland

High Income Countries Average

88.0 (-2.3)
68.3
90.9 (+0.6)
74.3
Yes
-
43.3
48.1
65.4 (-1.2)
61.9
No
-

Country Overview Data

Finland's regulatory frameworks support the creation of businesses and provide strong protections against insolvency. Combined with a high-quality legal system and stable financial sector, this encourages new investment and promotes competition among suppliers. Despite an improvement in process transparency, the length of Finland's procurement processes add costs and down-time for contractors bidding for and investing in projects. It could further improve procurement processes by publishing procurement guidelines for infrastructure projects.
GDP per capita

53,774 USD

Population

5.5 million persons

Infrastructure quality

83.4 (0-100 best)

GDP

269.7 USD billion

GDP growth rate

1.2%

GDP per capita growth rate

-1.7%

Gini coefficient

27.1 (0-100 worst)

Gross Government Debt

59.0% of GDP

Inflation rate

1.2%

Summary credit rating

96.0 (0-100 best)

Unemployment rate

7.3%

Urbanisation ratio

85.0% of total population

Road connectivity

91.6 (0-100 best)

Quality of road infrastructure

5.3 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of train services

5.5 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of air transport services

6.3 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of seaport services

6.4 (1-7 best)

Electricity access

100.0% of population

Electricity supply quality

3.1% of output lost

Exposure to unsafe drinking water

0.2% of population

Reliability of water supply

6.9 (1-7 best)

Digital Adoption Index

0.8 (0-1 best)

Mobile-broadband subscriptions

156.4 per 100 population

Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions

31.5 per 100 population