Countries With the Lowest Infrastructure Scores

Every country with a figure for infrastructure score, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are South Sudan (-1.06), Central African Republic (-1.01) and Burundi (-0.835). The middle country of the 210 has 0.943.

What this measures

Infrastructure score, in typical gaps (standard deviations). Source: PlaceStats. For this measure, higher is better.

The average of 5 measures from 1 publisher. Each measure is first put on a common scale: 0 is the average country in an average year, and 1 is a typical gap between countries (a standard deviation). Each is turned so that higher is better. Measures are averaged within each publisher first, so a publisher with many measures does not count for more. Members: Electricity access, Slum share of urban population, Mobile subscriptions, Fixed broadband, Internet users.

A standard deviation is a typical gap between places.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2022–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on infrastructure score

• Countries With the Highest Infrastructure Scores
• Infrastructure score by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Electricity Use per Person
• Countries With the Lowest Internet Users
• Countries With the Lowest Mobile Subscriptions
• Countries With the Lowest Electricity Access
• Countries With the Lowest Slum Share of Urban Population
• Countries With the Lowest Fixed Broadband

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.