South Korea: Banking system z-scores

South Korea: Banking system z-scores

: For that indicator, Bankscope provides data for South Korea from 1996 to 2016. The average value for South Korea during that period was 7.85 index points with a minumum of 2.48 index points in 1998 and a maximum of 11.63 index points in 2010. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

Definition: The index captures the probability of default of a country's banking system. Z-score compares the buffer of a country's banking system (capitalization and returns) with the volatility of those returns. It is estimated as (ROA+(equity/assets))/sd(ROA); sd(ROA) is the standard deviation of ROA. ROA, equity, and assets are country-level aggregate figures. Calculated from underlying bank-by-bank unconsolidated data from Bankscope.