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
Financial stability
Poland ranks among the most financially stable countries in InfraCompass 2020. The stability of the financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between parties, improving the supply of capital for projects. The COVID-19 pandemic may impact this.
Strength of insolvency framework
The World Bank rates the strength of Poland’s insolvency framework highly. Strong insolvency protections help to attract investment in infrastructure.
Procurement of PPPs
Poland's legal and regulatory frameworks which govern how private partners are selected for PPPs encourage fairness and transparency. Fair and transparent processes encourage more participation and competition, which drive value for money and better quality outcomes.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Financial markets:
Financial stability
Regulatory frameworks:
Strength of insolvency framework
Procurement:
Procurement of PPPs
Opportunities to Grow
Published infrastructure plan
Poland 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.
Registering property
In Poland it takes 135 days to register a property, significantly above the 25 day average for High Income Countries. As infrastructure projects often involve some transfer of property rights, a lengthy registration process increases project cost and risk.
Value of closed PPP infrastructure deals
The value of closed PPP infrastructure deals in Poland is the second lowest out of High Income Countries, at 0.005% of GDP. This is a fraction of the High Income Countries’ average of 0.14%. A low value may reflect a preference for traditional delivery models.
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.
Planning:
Published infrastructure plan
Permits:
Registering property
Activity:
Value of closed PPP infrastructure deals
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.
Poland
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
17,946 USD
Population37.8 million persons
81.2 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment3.6% of GDP
Infrastructure gap0.5% of GDP
565.9 USD billion
GDP growth rate4.0%
GDP per capita growth rate-3.4%
Gini coefficient31.8 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt48.0% of GDP
Inflation rate2.4%
Summary credit rating71.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate3.3%
Urbanisation ratio60.0% of total population
Road connectivity88.0 (0-100 best)
4.3 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services3.9 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services4.8 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services4.5 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality5.6% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water4.0% of population
Reliability of water supply5.9 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.7 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions171.7 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions18.9 per 100 population