Country Overview
Despite satisfactory performance in permit and funding capacity metrics, Chad is consistently ranked at near the bottom of all drivers. To improve its standing within its regional and income group it should seek to lower the cost to start a business (currently the highest of all InfraCompass 2020 countries), increase transparency in the procurement process and publish a national project pipeline.
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GDP per capita
697.4 USD
Population
16.9 million persons
Infrastructure quality
30.5 (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

76
-
8.2
Emerging
72
-
41.3
Emerging
75
-
22.8
Emerging
68
1
32.7
Emerging
76
-
10.0
Emerging
16
3
49.4
Global Leader
67
2
21.1
Emerging
75
1
15.7
Emerging

Metric Overview

Strengths

Registering property

It takes 29 days to register a property in Chad, below the Low Income Countries’ average of 46. As infrastructure projects often involve property rights, the shorter the time to register properties, the less costly and risky the project.

Financial stability

Financial stability scores for Chad are the second lowest of all InfraCompass 2020 countries, largely due to low diversification in asset holdings. A stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between infrastructure and investors, improving capital supply for projects.

Gross government debt

Chad’s gross government debt amounts to 45% of GDP, below the Low Income Countries’ average of 49%. While the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic remains unknown, Chad’s government is currently in a stronger fiscal position to fund infrastructure than many of its peers.

Registering property

It takes 29 days to register a property in Chad, below the Low Income Countries’ average of 46. As infrastructure projects often involve property rights, the shorter the time to register properties, the less costly and risky the project.

Financial stability

Financial stability scores for Chad are the second lowest of all InfraCompass 2020 countries, largely due to low diversification in asset holdings. A stable financial system facilitates the smooth flow of funds between infrastructure and investors, improving capital supply for projects.

Gross government debt

Chad’s gross government debt amounts to 45% of GDP, below the Low Income Countries’ average of 49%. While the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic remains unknown, Chad’s government is currently in a stronger fiscal position to fund infrastructure than many of its peers.

Top Performing Metrics

Top Performing Metrics

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

Low income country average

Financial markets:
Financial stability

Funding capacity:
Gross government debt

Opportunities to Grow

Published infrastructure procurement guidelines

Chad does not publish national guidelines for the procurement of infrastructure projects. Publishing guidelines makes contractors aware of the government’s processes, expectations and requirements. This improves transparency and helps achieve better value for money.

Transparency in public procurement

Chad does not make public procurement notices available online that detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. A more transparent process could encourage more participation and competition, which drive value for money.

Published project pipeline

Chad does not currently have an infrastructure pipeline of projects. The addition of an infrastructure pipeline could help provide infrastructure participants with a clear indication of prospective and confirmed infrastructure activity.

Published infrastructure procurement guidelines

Chad does not publish national guidelines for the procurement of infrastructure projects. Publishing guidelines makes contractors aware of the government’s processes, expectations and requirements. This improves transparency and helps achieve better value for money.

Transparency in public procurement

Chad does not make public procurement notices available online that detail both procurement procedures and shortlisting criteria. A more transparent process could encourage more participation and competition, which drive value for money.

Published project pipeline

Chad does not currently have an infrastructure pipeline of projects. The addition of an infrastructure pipeline could help provide infrastructure participants with a clear indication of prospective and confirmed infrastructure 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.

Low 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

Chad

Low 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.

0.0
21.8

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.

23.9 (+1.5)
37.1

18.1%

Post-completion reviews

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

No
-

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).

0.0
16.3

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.

25.4 (-2.9)
34.0

5%

Infrastructure or PPP agency

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

No
-

Chad

Low Income Countries Average

0.0
21.8
23.9 (+1.5)
37.1
No
-
0.0
16.3
25.4 (-2.9)
34.0
No
-

Country Overview Data

Despite satisfactory performance in permit and funding capacity metrics, Chad is consistently ranked at near the bottom of all drivers. To improve its standing within its regional and income group it should seek to lower the cost to start a business (currently the highest of all InfraCompass 2020 countries), increase transparency in the procurement process and publish a national project pipeline.
GDP per capita

697.4 USD

Population

16.9 million persons

Infrastructure quality

30.5 (0-100 best)

GDP growth rate

2.3%

GDP per capita growth rate

-2.7%

Gini coefficient

43.3 (0-100 worst)

Gross Government Debt

45.0% of GDP

Inflation rate

3.0%

Unemployment rate

2.3%

Urbanisation ratio

23.0% of total population

Road connectivity

62.2 (0-100 best)

Quality of road infrastructure

1.9 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of air transport services

2.7 (1-7 best)

Efficiency of seaport services

1.9 (1-7 best)

Electricity access

7.8% of population

Exposure to unsafe drinking water

83.4% of population

Reliability of water supply

2.3 (1-7 best)

Mobile-broadband subscriptions

4.0 per 100 population

Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions

0.0 per 100 population