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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 9 countries was 0.385 index points. The highest value was in Singapore: 0.822 index points and the lowest value was in Laos: 0.015 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
Singapore 0.822 1 1980 - 2021
Brunei 0.5 2 1986 - 2021
Malaysia 0.477 3 1980 - 2021
Vietnam 0.4 4 1992 - 2021
Thailand 0.39 5 1980 - 2021
Indonesia 0.344 6 1980 - 2021
Philippines 0.319 7 1980 - 2021
India 0.196 8 1980 - 2021
Laos 0.015 9 1989 - 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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