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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 34 countries was 0.375 index points. The highest value was in Bahrain: 1 index points and the lowest value was in Pakistan: 0.001 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 markets development, access, 2021 Global rank Available data
Bahrain 1 1 1980 - 2021
UA Emirates 0.885 2 1980 - 2021
Qatar 0.827 3 1980 - 2021
Singapore 0.822 4 1980 - 2021
Hong Kong 0.726 5 1980 - 2021
Oman 0.648 6 1980 - 2021
Japan 0.618 7 1980 - 2021
Saudi Arabia 0.554 8 1980 - 2021
Kazakhstan 0.523 9 1993 - 2021
Azerbaijan 0.52 10 1992 - 2021
Brunei 0.5 11 1986 - 2021
Malaysia 0.477 12 1980 - 2021
Jordan 0.468 13 1980 - 2021
South Korea 0.447 14 1980 - 2021
Israel 0.417 15 1980 - 2021
Vietnam 0.4 16 1992 - 2021
Thailand 0.39 17 1980 - 2021
Indonesia 0.344 18 1980 - 2021
Philippines 0.319 19 1980 - 2021
Sri Lanka 0.305 20 1980 - 2021
Macao 0.297 21 1984 - 2021
Bangladesh 0.296 22 1980 - 2021
Iran 0.255 23 1980 - 2021
India 0.196 24 1980 - 2021
China 0.186 25 1982 - 2021
Kuwait 0.176 26 1980 - 2021
Armenia 0.037 27 1993 - 2021
Mongolia 0.033 28 1991 - 2021
Georgia 0.029 29 1994 - 2021
Lebanon 0.02 30 1980 - 2021
Kyrgyzstan 0.018 31 1995 - 2021
Laos 0.015 32 1989 - 2021
Uzbekistan 0.006 33 1993 - 2021
Pakistan 0.001 34 1980 - 2021



Definition: Measures access to the financial markets using principal components methodology with these variables: Percent of market capitalization outside of top 10 largest companies and Total number of issuers of debt (domestic and external, nonfinancial and financial corporations). See Svirydzenka, Katsiaryna (IMF, 2016) for more detail.

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