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
According to the World Bank, the cost of starting a business in Portugal is 1.9% of income per capita, well below the High Income Countries’ average of 4.7%, easing the entry of new firms.
Average procurement duration – transaction RFP
At just over three months, Portugal has one of the lowest periods from announcement of a tender to contract award. Efficient procurement processes reduce costs, risks and down time for infrastructure contractors.
Registering property
In Portugal it takes 10 days to register a property, well below the 25 day High Income Countries’ average. As infrastructure projects often involve some transfer of property rights, an efficient registration process reduces project cost and risk.
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
Procurement:
Average procurement duration – transaction RFP
Permits:
Registering property
Opportunities to Grow
Published infrastructure plan
Portugal 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.
Long term GDP growth trend
Portugal’s long-term GDP growth trend has increased to 0.7% since 2017, but this is still below the High Income Countries average of 1.8%. Combined with the uncertain impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this low growth trend may hamper Portugal’s ability to borrow and build more infrastructure.
Gross government debt
At 118% of GDP, Portugal’s gross government debt is the fourth largest among High Income Countries. Combined with a current credit rating of BBB and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, servicing this debt is a significant burden on Portugal's ability to 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.
Planning:
Published infrastructure plan
Funding capacity:
Long term GDP growth trend
Funding capacity:
Gross government debt
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.
Portugal
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
24,296 USD
10.3 million persons
Infrastructure quality83.6 (0-100 best)
236.4 USD billion
GDP growth rate1.9%
GDP per capita growth rate-1.7%
Gini coefficient35.5 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt118.0% of GDP
Inflation rate0.9%
Summary credit rating71.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate6.1%
Urbanisation ratio65.0% of total population
Road connectivity94.2 (0-100 best)
6.0 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services4.2 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services5.0 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services4.9 (1-7 best)
Electricity access100.0% of population
Electricity supply quality8.8% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water1.1% of population
Reliability of water supply6.3 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.8 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions73.8 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions36.9 per 100 population