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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 27 countries was 0.457 index points. The highest value was in Ireland: 1 index points and the lowest value was in Romania: 0.011 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
Ireland 1 1 1980 - 2021
Luxembourg 1 2 1980 - 2021
Malta 0.896 3 1980 - 2021
Cyprus 0.85 4 1980 - 2021
Spain 0.849 5 1980 - 2021
Austria 0.825 6 1980 - 2021
Italy 0.717 7 1980 - 2021
Greece 0.688 8 1982 - 2021
Hungary 0.555 9 1982 - 2021
Croatia 0.537 10 1992 - 2021
Germany 0.537 11 1980 - 2021
Denmark 0.5 12 1980 - 2021
Finland 0.5 13 1980 - 2021
France 0.5 14 1980 - 2021
Netherlands 0.5 15 1980 - 2021
Sweden 0.5 16 1980 - 2021
Belgium 0.424 17 1980 - 2021
Poland 0.363 18 1980 - 2021
Portugal 0.137 19 1980 - 2021
Slovenia 0.122 20 1980 - 2021
Estonia 0.083 21 1992 - 2021
Bulgaria 0.08 22 1988 - 2021
Latvia 0.059 23 1993 - 2021
Czechia 0.04 24 1990 - 2021
Lithuania 0.039 25 1993 - 2021
Slovakia 0.018 26 1991 - 2021
Romania 0.011 27 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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