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Financial markets development, access, 2021:

The average for 2021 based on 15 countries was 0.207 index points. The highest value was in Mauritius: 0.837 index points and the lowest value was in Ethiopia: 0.001 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
Mauritius 0.837 1 1980 - 2021
Botswana 0.542 2 1980 - 2021
Zambia 0.5 3 1980 - 2021
Nigeria 0.483 4 1980 - 2021
South Africa 0.401 5 1980 - 2021
Ghana 0.226 6 1980 - 2021
Namibia 0.048 7 1990 - 2021
Togo 0.028 8 1980 - 2021
Burundi 0.011 9 1980 - 2021
Mozambique 0.008 10 1990 - 2021
Ivory Coast 0.005 11 1982 - 2021
Tanzania 0.005 12 1980 - 2021
Angola 0.004 13 1995 - 2021
Kenya 0.002 14 1980 - 2021
Ethiopia 0.001 15 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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