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
Time required to start a business
According to the World Bank, it takes six days to start a business in Senegal, which is significantly lower than the average of 20 days for Lower Middle Income Countries. Shorter times to set up businesses can persuade businesses to set up in a country, including new infrastructure entities.
Financial stability
Senegal’s financial stability is satisfactory. However, it is less stable than the Lower Middle Income Countries average of 83. A stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between infrastructure assets and investors. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is a concern.
Infrastructure investment
Senegal’ infrastructure investment is 6.2% of GDP, higher than the average of 4.6% for all InfraCompass 2020 countries. Senegal’s government has prioritised investment in infrastructure, and encouraged PPPs. It is uncertain how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect investment in the future.
Top Performing Metrics
Top Performing Metrics
This is defined by the metrics with the highest unweighted score out of 100.
Permits:
Time required to start a business
Financial markets:
Financial stability
Activity:
Infrastructure investment
Opportunities to Grow
Transparency in public procurement
Senegal does not make public procurement notices that detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria available online. A more transparent process could encourage more participation and competition, which drive value for money.
Market sounding and/or assessment
According to the World Bank, there is an absence of formal market sounding processes in Senegal. Adding one could allow the government to determine if there is an interest from investors and lenders to provide commercial financing for projects.
GDP per capita
Senegal has a low GDP per capita of USD 1,428 but is growing at a long-term average rate of 4.7% per annum. Its relatively high growth, should it not be overly impacted by COVID-19, can be expected to correlate with greater infrastructure spending.
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.
Procurement:
Transparency in public procurement
Planning:
Market sounding and/or assessment
Funding capacity:
GDP per capita
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.
Senegal
Lower-middle 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
1,607 USD
Population17.2 million persons
51.3 (0-100 best)
Infrastructure investment10.0% of GDP
Infrastructure gap3.0% of GDP
23.9 USD billion
GDP growth rate6.0%
GDP per capita growth rate-0.9%
Gini coefficient40.3 (0-100 worst)
Gross Government Debt63.0% of GDP
Inflation rate1.0%
Summary credit rating37.0 (0-100 best)
Unemployment rate6.5%
Urbanisation ratio47.0% of total population
Road connectivity72.9 (0-100 best)
4.1 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of train services2.9 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of air transport services4.5 (1-7 best)
Efficiency of seaport services4.0 (1-7 best)
Electricity access65.2% of population
Electricity supply quality15.0% of output lost
Exposure to unsafe drinking water48.9% of population
Reliability of water supply3.7 (1-7 best)
Digital Adoption Index0.4 (0-1 best)
Mobile-broadband subscriptions41.5 per 100 population
Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions0.8 per 100 population