GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORTS – AZERBAIJAN: DYNAMICS

Rank in 2018/2019 reporting period : 69

Pillar name

№

Indicators

2018-2019 score

2018-2019 rank

Pillar 1: Institutions

General rating for institutions

55.8

58

1.01

Business costs of organized crime 1-7 (best)

71.7

39

1.02

Homicide rate /100,000 pop

94.4

63

1.03

Terrorism incidence 0 (very high) -100 (no incidence)

99.7

78

1.04

Reliability of police services 1-7 (best)

61.7

53

1.05

Social capital 0-100 (high)

41.1

123

1.06

Budget transparency 0-100 (best)

34.6

116

1.07

Judicial independence 1-7 (best)

56.8

49

1.08

Efficiency of legal framework in challenging regulations 1-7 (best)

56.7

22

1.09

Freedom of the press 0-100 (worst)

40.3

133

1.10

Burden of government regulation 1-7 (best)

60.7

12

1.11

Efficiency of legal framework in settling disputes 1-7 (best)

60.5

28

1.12

E-Participation Index 0-1 (best

68

76

1.13

Future orientation of government 1-7 (best)

62.1

20

1.14

Incidence of corruption 0-100 (best)

31

102

1.15

Property rights 1-7 (best)

58.2

46

1.16

Intellectual property protection 1-7 (best)

63

36

1.17

Quality of land administration 0-30 (best)

48.3

74

1.18

Strength of auditing and reporting standards 1-7 (best)

55

88

1.19

Conflict of interest regulation 0-10 (best)

77

16

1.20

Shareholder governance 0-10 (best)

73

15

Pillar 2 : Infrastructure

General rating for infrastructure

73.6

46

2.01

Road connectivity index 0-100 (best)

50.8

89

2.02

Quality of roads 1-7 (best)

63

34

2.03

Railroad density, km of roads/square km

59.9

32

2.04

Efficiency of train services 1-7 (best)

63.2

17

2.05

Airport connectivity score

41.9

79

2.06

Efficiency of air transport services 1-7 (best)

80

12

2.07

Liner Shipping Connectivity Index 0–157.1 (best)

n/a

n/a

2.08

Efficiency of seaport services 1-7 (best)

64.4

29

2.09

Electrification rate (% pop.)

100

1

2.10

Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% output)

92

77

2.11

Exposure to unsafe drinking water (% pop.)

92.3

63

2.12

Reliability of water supply 1-7 (best)

65.7

65

Pillar 3 : ICT adoption

General rating for ICT adoption

54

69

3.01

Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions /100 pop.

85.9

97

3.02

Mobile-broadband subscriptions /100 pop.

n/a

88

3.03

Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions /100 pop

36.7

53

3.04

Fibre Internet subscriptions /100 pop.

n/a

55

3.05

Internet users (% pop.)

78.2

36

Pillar 4 : Macroeconomic stability

General rating for macroeconomic stability

59.8

126

4.01

Inflation (annual % change)

75.6

128

4.02

Debt dynamics 0-100 (best)

44

111

Pillar 5: Health

General rating for health

73.1

91

5.01

Healthy life expectancy (years)

73.1

90

Pillar 6 : Skills

General rating for skills

67.8

54

6.01

Mean years of schooling (Years)

69.8

50

6.02

Extent of staff training 1-7 (best)

52.5

56

6.03

Quality of vocational training 1-7 (best)

56.6

49

6.04

Skillset of graduates 1-7 (best)

61.8

32

6.05

Digital skills among population 1-7 (best)

70.7

15

6.06

Ease of finding skilled employees 1-7 (best)

62

31

6.07

School life expectancy (Years)

70.6

88

6.08

Critical thinking in teaching 1-7 (best)

54.2

27

6.09

Pupil-to-teacher ratio in primary education (Ratio)

86.3

48

Pillar 7: Product market

General rating for product market

61.4

37

7.01

Distortive effect of taxes and subsidies on competition 1-7 (best)

60.4

20

7.02

Extent of market dominance 1-7 (best)

53.2

37

7.03

Competition in services 1-7 (best)

n/a

63

7.04

Prevalence of non-tariff barriers 1-7 (best)

59.6

46

7.05

Trade tariffs % duty

47.3

90

7.06

Complexity of tariffs 1-7 (best

85.1

62

7.07

Efficiency of the clearance process 1–5 (best)

39.3

82

7.08

Services trade openness 0-100 (worst)

82.2

n/a

Pillar 8: Labour market

General rating for labour market

63.6

40

8.01

Redundancy costs (weeks of salary)

63.2

96

8.02

Hiring and firing practices 1-7 (best)

61.4

12

8.03

Cooperation in Labour-employer relations 1-7 (best)

65.1

32

8.04

Flexibility of wage determination 1-7 (best)

72.4

36

8.05

Active Labour policies 1-7 (best)

53.2

37

8.06

Workers' rights 0-100 (best)

55.3

n/a

8.07

Ease of hiring foreign labour 1-7 (best)

62

21

8.08

Internal Labour mobility 1-7 (best)

60.5

56

8.09

Reliance on professional management 1-7 (best)

59.7

45

8.10

Pay and productivity 1-7 (best)

63.4

15

8.11

Female participation in Labour force (ratio)

62.3

74

8.12

Labour tax rate (%)

76.7

106

Pillar 9: Financial system

General rating for financial system

52.6

96

9.01

Domestic credit to private sector (% GDP)

33.6

99

9.02

Financing of SMEs 1-7 (best)

52.1

40

9.03

Venture capital availability 1-7 (best)

47.8

23

9.04

Market capitalization (% GDP)

0

19

9.05

Insurance premium (% GDP)

9.3

119

9.06

Soundness of banks 1-7 (best)

57.8

92

9.07

Non-performing loans (% loan portfolio value)

73.1

118

9.08

Credit gap (percentage points)

100

41

9.09

Banks’ regulatory capital ratio (ratio)

100

37

Pillar 10: Market size

General rating for market size

54

65

10.1

Gross domestic product (PPP $ billions)

n/a

68

10.2

Imports (% GDP)

n/a

76

Pillar 11: Business dynamism

General rating for business dynamism

68.8

31

11.1

Cost of starting a business (% GNI per capita)

99.1

38

11.2

Time to start a business (days)

96

17

11.3

Insolvency recovery rate (cents/$)

43.3

59

11.4

Insolvency regulatory framework 0-16 (best)

81.3

17

11.5

Attitudes toward entrepreneurial risk 1-7 (best)

57.7

21

11.6

Willingness to delegate authority 1-7 (best)

57.7

56

11.7

Growth of innovative companies 1-7 (best)

58.2

35

11.8

Companies embracing disruptive ideas 1-7 (best)

53.5

25

Pillar 12: Innovation capability

General rating for innovation capability

36

71

12.1

Diversity of workforce 1-7 (best)

64.3

36

12.2

State of cluster development 1-7 (best)

55.7

34

12.3

International co-inventions (applications/million pop.)

1.0

99

12.4

Multi-stakeholder collaboration 1-7 (best)

56.8

30

12.5

Scientific publications (H Index)

65

108

12.6

Patent applications (applications/million pop)

3.5

87

12.7

R&D expenditures (% GDP)

7.0

90

12.8

Quality of research institutions (index)

0.8

86

12.9

Buyer sophistication 1-7 (best)

52.7

27

12.10

Trademark applications (applications/million pop)

52.3

101