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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 14 countries was 0.295 index points. The highest value was in Panama: 0.771 index points and the lowest value was in Guatemala: 0.007 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
Panama 0.771 1 1980 - 2021
Canada 0.708 2 1980 - 2021
USA 0.655 3 1980 - 2021
Bahamas 0.5 4 1980 - 2021
Saint Lucia 0.5 5 1980 - 2021
Mexico 0.413 6 1980 - 2021
Barbados 0.367 7 1980 - 2021
Tr.&Tobago 0.065 8 1980 - 2021
El Salvador 0.05 9 1980 - 2021
Jamaica 0.034 10 1980 - 2021
Honduras 0.021 11 1980 - 2021
Costa Rica 0.02 12 1980 - 2021
Domin. Rep. 0.019 13 1980 - 2021
Guatemala 0.007 14 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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