By Political Animal.
Egypt used to have one of the worst road networks in the world and occupied the 118th position in the world in 2014.Which is almost about the time this present Government came into power .
Today Egypt has the best road network in Africa and the 28th best in the world.
Egypt’s Ministry of transport aims to be among the top 10 in the world by 2030.
Please help me locate my country Nigeria,my eyes are paining me and my glasses are bad.
Roads quality – Country rankings
Quality of roads, 1(low) – 7(high), 2019 .
Country rankings:
The average for 2019 based on 141 countries was 4.07 points.
The highest value was in Singapore: 6.5 points and the lowest value was in Chad: 1.9 points.
The indicator is available from 2006 to 2019.
Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.
Measure:
points; Source: World Economic Forum.
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Singapore
Netherlands
Switzerland
Hong Kong
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Austria
Portugal
UA Emirates
South Korea
Oman
Spain
Croatia
Denmark
Taiwan
Luxembourg
Qatar
USA
France
Finland
Germany
Malaysia
Namibia
Sweden
Azerbaijan
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Chile
Saudi Arabia
Cyprus
Egypt
Brunei
Canada
Turkey
Australia
Ecuador
Israel
Slovenia
UK
Lithuania
Rwanda
Domin. Rep.
Estonia
Mauritius
Morocco
China
Greece
India
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Panama
South Africa
Tajikistan
Belgium
Ireland
Italy
Thailand
Poland
El Salvador
Indonesia
Jordan
Nicaragua
Honduras
Iceland
Kenya
Senegal
Tanzania
Algeria
Cape Verde
Eswatini
Hungary
Pakistan
Seychelles
Slovakia
Albania
Burundi
Czechia
Iran
Jamaica
Montenegro
Sri Lanka
Botswana
Georgia
Gambia
Guinea
Kuwait
Laos
Philippines
Tr.&Tobago
Uganda
Uruguay
Argentina
Armenia
Cambodia
Ivory Coast
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Tunisia
Bolivia
Russia
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Bulgaria
Colombia
North Macedonia
Vietnam
Zambia
Malta
Bangladesh
Barbados
Benin
Mali
Peru
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
Brazil
Costa Rica
Ethiopia
Ghana
Romania
Ukraine
Nepal
Bosnia & Herz.
Burkina Faso
Malawi
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
Lebanon
Moldova
Paraguay
Venezuela
Gabon
Nigeria
Cameroon
Guatemala
Mozambique
Angola
DR Congo
Haiti
Yemen
Madagascar
Mauritania
Chad
Definition: The Road quality indicator is one of the components of the Global Competitiveness Index published annually by the World Economic Forum (WEF). It represents an assessment of the quality of roads in a given country based on data from the WEF Executive Opinion Survey, a long-running and extensive survey tapping the opinions of over 14,000 business leaders in 144 countries.
The road quality indicator score is based on only one question.
The respondents are asked to rate the roads in their country of operation on a scale from 1 (underdeveloped) to 7 (extensive and efficient by international standards). The individual responses are aggregated to produce a country score.
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El Sisi may have a bad human rights record but in the area of infrastructure,he pulled it off.At least his people have something to celebrate.Talk about leaders that take the nation’s growth as priority and not the growth of their pockets.Egypt has a very high development infrastructure program by the example we are seeing.
This was what many Nigerians expected from this Government in 2015 based on their promises.They rather created more problem that they are looking for solution as we speak.
Before 2030, Egypt will be one of the top destinations for investment in the world.In as much as I am not a supporter of those who changed their uniforms from khaki to agbada like the President of Egypt,yet I can’t deny the economic development in that country in the last few years.
Especially when it comes to roads and infrastructure.Egypt and China were the only 2 economies to make positive growth in 2020.
The question you should be asking yourself is: Didn’t our President remove his own uniform from khaki to Agbada?
The difference is what is in the head.
Secondly, what kind of democratic Government where the state governments don’t own all the roads in their state? What do we mean by Federal roads inside the heart of States?
Well ,we have been told that very soon the trains shall run through our backyards ,who knows?. Meanwhile Government officials and civil servants are busy stealing billions of dollars and Naira meant for infrastructural developments.
Woe unto them.
Until I see one train in my backyard,then I can believe that we have trains.But before that,let us have good roads at least sir.
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