Germany: Bank cost to income ratio, in percent, 2000 - 2020:
For that indicator, we provide data for Germany from 2000 to 2020. The average value for Germany during that period was 75.31 percent with a minimum of 63.27 percent in 2005 and a maximum of 95.66 percent in 2008.
The latest value from 2020 is 70.53 percent. For comparison, the world average in 2020 based on 126
countries is 56.52 percent.
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Definition: Operating expenses of a bank as a share of the sum of net-interest revenue and other operating income. The numerator and denominator are first aggregated on the country level before division. Note that banks used in the calculation might differ between indicators. Calculated from underlying bank-by-bank unconsolidated data from Bankscope.