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Financial institutions development, depth, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 40 countries was 0.453 index points. The highest value was in Denmark: 1 index points and the lowest value was in Turkey: 0.065 index points. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2021. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: index points; Source: International Monetary Fund
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Countries Financial institutions development, depth, 2021 Global rank Available data
Denmark 1 1 1980 - 2021
UK 1 2 1980 - 2021
Sweden 0.999 3 1980 - 2021
Switzerland 0.949 4 1980 - 2021
Finland 0.815 5 1980 - 2021
France 0.804 6 1980 - 2021
Netherlands 0.783 7 1980 - 2021
Belgium 0.76 8 1980 - 2021
Iceland 0.74 9 1980 - 2021
Austria 0.731 10 1980 - 2021
Norway 0.691 11 1980 - 2021
Malta 0.658 12 1980 - 2021
Germany 0.642 13 1980 - 2021
Ireland 0.638 14 1980 - 2021
Luxembourg 0.625 15 1980 - 2021
Spain 0.564 16 1980 - 2021
Italy 0.539 17 1980 - 2021
Portugal 0.489 18 1980 - 2021
Cyprus 0.452 19 1980 - 2021
Croatia 0.366 20 1992 - 2021
Slovakia 0.325 21 1991 - 2021
Hungary 0.286 22 1982 - 2021
Czechia 0.285 23 1990 - 2021
Slovenia 0.283 24 1992 - 2021
Estonia 0.274 25 1992 - 2021
Bulgaria 0.25 26 1988 - 2021
North Macedonia 0.23 27 1992 - 2021
Poland 0.229 28 1980 - 2021
Greece 0.214 29 1982 - 2021
Latvia 0.204 30 1993 - 2021
Lithuania 0.203 31 1993 - 2021
Russia 0.198 32 1990 - 2021
Bosnia & Herz. 0.188 33 1995 - 2021
Serbia 0.158 34 1994 - 2021
Romania 0.137 35 1980 - 2021
Albania 0.125 36 1992 - 2021
Belarus 0.078 37 1993 - 2021
Moldova 0.072 38 1992 - 2021
Ukraine 0.066 39 1992 - 2021
Turkey 0.065 40 1985 - 2021



Definition: Measures the development of financial institutions in terms of depth. Constructed as a principal component of the following variables: Private-sector credit to GDP; Pension fund assets to GDP; Mutual fund assets to GDP; and Insurance premiums, life and non-life, to GDP. See Svirydzenka, Katsiaryna (IMF, 2016) for more detail.

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