Overview

With a score of 1.89, Egypt once again performs poorly among the resource and efficiency-driven economies of the Connectivity Scorecard 2011. It finishes in 20th position, slipping down two places from last year’s 18th position and remains among the bottom 10 performers just behind Syria, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

The country emerges 4th among its six African counterparts trailing its Maghrebian neighbor, Tunisia in 12th place with a score of 2.79. However, Egypt does perform considerably better than Kenya and Nigeria. Egypt shows the same broad trends as were evident last year – strong mobile growth pulled down by very poor performances in most other components. The low scores, similar to last year, indicate that the potential has not been harnessed and therefore, there is still much room for improvement.

Egypt Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component