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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 13 countries was 0.436 index points. The highest value was in Bahrain: 1 index points and the lowest value was in Algeria: 0.004 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
Oman 0.648 4 1980 - 2021
Saudi Arabia 0.554 5 1980 - 2021
Morocco 0.507 6 1980 - 2021
Jordan 0.468 7 1980 - 2021
Egypt 0.31 8 1980 - 2021
Iran 0.255 9 1980 - 2021
Kuwait 0.176 10 1980 - 2021
Lebanon 0.02 11 1980 - 2021
Tunisia 0.018 12 1980 - 2021
Algeria 0.004 13 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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