South Korea: Bank cost to income ratio, in percent, 2000 - 2020:
For that indicator, we provide data for South Korea from 2000 to 2020. The average value for South Korea during that period was 58.57 percent with a minimum of 41.97 percent in 2011 and a maximum of 73.68 percent in 2015.
The latest value from 2020 is 65.71 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.