Country Overview
Germany's regulatory frameworks and permit rules support the creation of new businesses and provide strong protections against business insolvency for creditors. Combined with a high recovery rate, quality legal system and stable financial sector, this encourages new investment and promotes competition among suppliers. Despite transparency in procurement processes, the length of Germany's procurement processes add costs for contractors. Its activity, which measures recent investment as a share of GDP, is low as it has already established, quality infrastructure and is a large economy.
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GDP per capita
51,238 USD
Population
83.2 million persons
Infrastructure quality
90.2 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment
1.5% of GDP
Infrastructure gap
0.0% of GDP

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

12
3
78.5
Global Leader
2
-
80.4
Global Leader
32
6
75.5
Top performer
33
3
76.6
Contender
63
-
54.0
Aspiring
76
-
10.0
Emerging
9
1
76.4
Global Leader
17
2
55.8
Top performer

Metric Overview

Strengths

Transparency in public procurement

Germany's public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. The transparency of the process encourages more participation and competition, which drive value for money.

Summary credit rating

Germany's institutional strength and high GDP per capita has seen it maintain a AAA credit rating from the major ratings agencies. Germany's good credit rating allows the government to borrow at a lower cost.

Strength of insolvency framework

The World Bank rates the strength of Germany's insolvency framework highly. Strong insolvency protections help to attract investment in infrastructure.

Transparency in public procurement

Germany's public procurement notices are made available online and tender documents detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. The transparency of the process encourages more participation and competition, which drive value for money.

Summary credit rating

Germany's institutional strength and high GDP per capita has seen it maintain a AAA credit rating from the major ratings agencies. Germany's good credit rating allows the government to borrow at a lower cost.

Strength of insolvency framework

The World Bank rates the strength of Germany's insolvency framework highly. Strong insolvency protections help to attract investment in infrastructure.

Top Performing Metrics

Top Performing Metrics

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

High income country average

Funding capacity:
Summary credit rating

Regulatory frameworks:
Strength of insolvency framework

Opportunities to Grow

Published infrastructure procurement guidelines

Germany 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

Germany does not have a cross-sectoral national or sub-national infrastructure plan. An infrastructure plan, in addition to the existing transport sector plan, could highlight infrastructure challenges, opportunities for investment and the government's planned responses.

Long term GDP growth trend

Global trade tensions and a persistent downturn in the automotive industry have seen German GDP growth forecasts reduced. This is likely to be compounded by the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global economic activity.

Published infrastructure procurement guidelines

Germany 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

Germany does not have a cross-sectoral national or sub-national infrastructure plan. An infrastructure plan, in addition to the existing transport sector plan, could highlight infrastructure challenges, opportunities for investment and the government's planned responses.

Long term GDP growth trend

Global trade tensions and a persistent downturn in the automotive industry have seen German GDP growth forecasts reduced. This is likely to be compounded by the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global economic activity.

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

Funding capacity:
Long term GDP growth trend

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
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Metric

Germany

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.

79.8 (-4.6)
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.

82.6 (+0.2)
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).

53.3
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.

60.1 (-1.3)
61.9

5%

Infrastructure or PPP agency

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

Yes
-

Germany

High Income Countries Average

79.8 (-4.6)
68.3
82.6 (+0.2)
74.3
Yes
-
53.3
48.1
60.1 (-1.3)
61.9
Yes
-

Country Overview Data

Germany's regulatory frameworks and permit rules support the creation of new businesses and provide strong protections against business insolvency for creditors. Combined with a high recovery rate, quality legal system and stable financial sector, this encourages new investment and promotes competition among suppliers. Despite transparency in procurement processes, the length of Germany's procurement processes add costs for contractors. Its activity, which measures recent investment as a share of GDP, is low as it has already established, quality infrastructure and is a large economy.
GDP per capita

51,238 USD

Population

83.2 million persons

Infrastructure quality

90.2 (0-100 best)

Infrastructure investment

1.5% of GDP

Infrastructure gap

0.0% of GDP

GDP

3,863 USD billion

GDP growth rate

0.5%

GDP per capita growth rate

-2.3%

Gini coefficient

31.7 (0-100 worst)

Gross Government Debt

59.0% of GDP

Inflation rate

1.5%

Summary credit rating

100.0 (0-100 best)

Unemployment rate

3.2%

Urbanisation ratio

77.0% of total population

Road connectivity

95.1 (0-100 best)

Quality of road infrastructure

5.3 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of train services

4.9 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of air transport services

5.5 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of seaport services

5.2 (1-7 best)

Electricity access

100.0% of population

Electricity supply quality

4.3% of output lost

Exposure to unsafe drinking water

0.3% of population

Reliability of water supply

6.1 (1-7 best)

Digital Adoption Index

0.8 (0-1 best)

Mobile-broadband subscriptions

81.6 per 100 population

Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions

41.1 per 100 population