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What is banks’ tier 1 capital ratio?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	FSI2, Banks’s Regular Tier One Capital to Risk Weighted Assets, percent
Year:	2019
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	IMF Financial Soundness Indicators Database
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	KOR (2017), CHE (2018), GBR (2018)
Annotation:	Dataset: Financial soundness indicators (FSIs), regulatory Tier 1 Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets URL: https://data.imf.org/?sk=51B… extracted May 20th, 2020
Source 2:	IMF Financial Stability Assessment New Zealand
Data for:	NZL
Exceptions:	NZL (2016)
Annotation:	IMF Country report 17/110, New Zealand, financial sector assessment program, financial system stability assessment URL: https://www.imf.org/~/media/…

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	24.50875
Minimum:	3.27875
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Tier 1 Capital Ratio

Estonia

10.0

24.98

Ireland

9.3

22.95

Croatia

9.1

22.40

Upper middle group

Luxembourg

8.7

21.42

Norway

8.7

21.40

Iceland

8.5

20.99

Sweden

8.2

20.37

Bulgaria

8.2

20.22

Denmark

8.1

19.97

Latvia

7.9

19.57

Netherlands

7.6

18.91

Lithuania

7.6

18.85

Finland

7.5

18.51

Czechia

7.4

18.37

Switzerland

7.4

18.30

Cyprus

7.3

18.10

7.2

17.93

Romania

7.2

17.88

Slovenia

7.1

17.78

Malta

7.0

17.40

Slovakia

6.7

16.67

Belgium

6.7

16.64

Germany

6.6

16.54

Poland

6.5

16.34

Austria

6.4

15.90

Greece

6.3

15.86

France

6.2

15.58

Turkey

6.1

15.34

Japan

6.0

15.12

Portugal

6.0

14.98

Lower middle group

Mexico

5.7

14.44

Italy

5.7

14.40

Hungary

5.7

14.34

Spain

5.6

14.03

USA

5.4

13.77

Canada

5.2

13.22

South Korea

5.2

13.12

Australia

5.1

13.06

New Zealand

4.7

11.90

Israel

4.4

11.37

Chile

4.0

10.24

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