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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 10 countries was 0.253 index points. The highest value was in Colombia: 0.558 index points and the lowest value was in Ecuador: 0.006 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
Colombia 0.558 1 -
Argentina 0.521 2 -
Chile 0.466 3 -
Peru 0.425 4 -
Brazil 0.422 5 -
Paraguay 0.08 6 -
Uruguay 0.031 7 -
Bolivia 0.009 8 -
Venezuela 0.008 9 -
Ecuador 0.006 10 -



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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