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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:	2021
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:	AUT (2020), FIN (2019)
Annotation:	Dataset: Financial soundness indicators (FSIs), regulatory Tier 1 Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets URL: https://data.imf.org/?sk=51B… extracted June 26th, 2022 For AUT, FIN, JPN, ROU: extracted October 25th, 2021
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:	25.61
Minimum:	2.97
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Additional annotations and exceptions

Data for AUT, FIN, JPN, ROU are currently under IMF revision.

Top group

Score

Tier 1 Capital Ratio

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Croatia

9.8

25.18

Lithuania

9.4

24.20

Ireland

9.2

23.67

Latvia

9.2

23.59

Estonia

9.2

23.52

Iceland

9.0

23.05

Upper middle group

Norway

8.7

22.22

Romania

8.6

22.08

Bulgaria

8.5

21.79

Sweden

8.2

21.11

Czechia

8.1

20.78

Luxembourg

8.1

20.72

Denmark

7.9

20.32

Netherlands

7.5

19.37

Cyprus

7.5

19.32

7.4

19.09

Switzerland

7.3

18.82

Belgium

7.3

18.81

Finland

7.2

18.51

Malta

7.1

18.27

Slovakia

7.1

18.25

Hungary

6.5

16.92

France

6.5

16.81

Mexico

6.5

16.78

Slovenia

6.5

16.78

Germany

6.5

16.77

Italy

6.4

16.50

Poland

6.3

16.37

Portugal

6.3

16.32

Austria

6.2

16.14

South Korea

6.0

15.48

Lower middle group

Spain

5.8

15.10

Canada

5.8

15.09

USA

5.7

14.85

Japan

5.6

14.64

Turkey

5.5

14.38

Australia

5.3

13.88

Greece

5.0

13.05

New Zealand

4.5

11.90

Israel

4.1

10.88

Chile

4.1

10.70

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Bottom group

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