Saudi Arabia: Financial markets development, access

The latest value from 2021 is 0.554 index points, a decline from 0.56 index points in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 0.361 index points, based on data from 114 countries. Historically, the average for Saudi Arabia from 1980 to 2021 is 0.301 index points. The minimum value, 0.102 index points, was reached in 1980 while the maximum of 0.56 index points was recorded in 2020. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

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.