economic2025

CPIA financial sector rating

Compare cpia financial sector rating across 77 countries and territories using the World Bank's official 2025 fixed-year API slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
2.8rating (1–6)
Median: 3.0rating (1–6)
Countries Covered
77
with available data
Highest
Fiji
4.0rating (1–6)
Lowest
Eritrea
1.0rating (1–6)
Top 5 Countries
1Fiji4.0rating (1–6)
2Nepal4.0rating (1–6)
3Rwanda4.0rating (1–6)
4Belize3.5rating (1–6)
5Cape Verde3.5rating (1–6)
By Region
Key Findings
  • Coverage: 77 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
  • Published range: 1 to 4 rating (1–6).
  • Discovery motivation: Google Trends Germany surfaced Bank Sepah, motivating a country comparison of financial-sector policy, stability, depth and access.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (1.0rating (1–6))High (4.0rating (1–6))

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 2.8rating (1–6))

About This Statistic

The CPIA measures the extent to which a country’s policy and institutional framework supports sustainable growth and poverty reduction, and consequently the effective use of development assistance. The outcome of the exercise yields both an overall score and scores for sixteen criteria that compose the CPIA. These criteria include: A. Economic Management (1. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies; 2. Fiscal Policy; 3. Debt Policy and Management), B. Structural Policies (4. Trade; 5. Financial Sector; 6. Business Regulatory Environment), C. Policies for Social Inclusion/Equity (7. Gender equality; 8. Equity of public resource use; 9. Building human resources; 10. Social protection and labor; 11. Policies and institutions for environmental sustainability), D. Public Sector Management and Institutions (12. Property rights and rule-based governance; 13. Quality of budgetary and financial management; 14. Efficiency of revenue mobilization; 15. Quality of public administration; 16. Transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector).

The financial sector criterion assesses the policies and regulations that affect financial sector development. Three dimensions are covered: (a) financial stability; (b) the sector’s efficiency, depth, and resource mobilization strength; and (c) access to financial services.

MapTheory uses only finite 2025 observations mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric country codes. Aggregates, missing values and other years are excluded without estimation. Discovery motivation: Google Trends Germany surfaced Bank Sepah, motivating a country comparison of financial-sector policy, stability, depth and access.

Methodology

The CPIA measures the extent to which a country’s policy and institutional framework supports sustainable growth and poverty reduction, and consequently the effective use of development assistance. The outcome of the exercise yields both an overall score and scores for sixteen criteria that compose the CPIA. These criteria include: A. Economic Management (1. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies; 2. Fiscal Policy; 3. Debt Policy and Management), B. Structural Policies (4. Trade; 5. Financial Sector; 6. Business Regulatory Environment), C. Policies for Social Inclusion/Equity (7. Gender equality; 8. Equity of public resource use; 9. Building human resources; 10. Social protection and labor; 11. Policies and institutions for environmental sustainability), D. Public Sector Management and Institutions (12. Property rights and rule-based governance; 13. Quality of budgetary and financial management; 14. Efficiency of revenue mobilization; 15. Quality of public administration; 16. Transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector). The financial sector criterion assesses the policies and regulations that affect financial sector development. Three dimensions are covered: (a) financial stability; (b) the sector’s efficiency, depth, and resource mobilization strength; and (c) access to financial services.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Fiji4.0rating (1–6)
2Nepal4.0rating (1–6)
3Rwanda4.0rating (1–6)
4Cape Verde3.5rating (1–6)
5Dominica3.5rating (1–6)
6Ghana3.5rating (1–6)
7Grenada3.5rating (1–6)
8Guyana3.5rating (1–6)
9Honduras3.5rating (1–6)
10Cote d'Ivoire3.5rating (1–6)
11Kenya3.5rating (1–6)
12Kyrgyzstan3.5rating (1–6)
13Malawi3.5rating (1–6)
14Pakistan3.5rating (1–6)
15Saint Lucia3.5rating (1–6)
16Senegal3.5rating (1–6)
17Eswatini3.5rating (1–6)
18Tonga3.5rating (1–6)
19Uganda3.5rating (1–6)
20United Republic of Tanzania3.5rating (1–6)
21Samoa3.5rating (1–6)
22Zambia3.5rating (1–6)
23Belize3.5rating (1–6)
24Burundi3.0rating (1–6)
25Cambodia3.0rating (1–6)
26Cameroon3.0rating (1–6)
27Sri Lanka3.0rating (1–6)
28Benin3.0rating (1–6)
29Ethiopia3.0rating (1–6)
30Djibouti3.0rating (1–6)
31Guinea3.0rating (1–6)
32Lesotho3.0rating (1–6)
33Liberia3.0rating (1–6)
34Madagascar3.0rating (1–6)
35Maldives3.0rating (1–6)
36Mali3.0rating (1–6)
37Vanuatu3.0rating (1–6)
38Nigeria3.0rating (1–6)
39Papua New Guinea3.0rating (1–6)
40Saint Vincent and the Grenadines3.0rating (1–6)
41Zimbabwe3.0rating (1–6)
42Suriname3.0rating (1–6)
43Togo3.0rating (1–6)
44Burkina Faso3.0rating (1–6)
45Uzbekistan3.0rating (1–6)
46Bhutan3.0rating (1–6)
47Solomon Islands3.0rating (1–6)
48Central African Republic2.5rating (1–6)
49Comoros2.5rating (1–6)
50Republic of the Congo2.5rating (1–6)
51Democratic Republic of the Congo2.5rating (1–6)
52Republic of The Gambia2.5rating (1–6)
53Lao People's Democratic Republic2.5rating (1–6)
54Mauritania2.5rating (1–6)
55Mozambique2.5rating (1–6)
56Micronesia, Federated States of2.5rating (1–6)
57Timor-Leste2.5rating (1–6)
58Sao Tome and Principe2.5rating (1–6)
59Sierra Leone2.5rating (1–6)
60Tajikistan2.5rating (1–6)
61Kiribati2.0rating (1–6)
62Haiti2.0rating (1–6)
63Nicaragua2.0rating (1–6)
64Marshall Islands2.0rating (1–6)
65Guinea-Bissau2.0rating (1–6)
66Somalia2.0rating (1–6)
67South Sudan2.0rating (1–6)
68Tuvalu2.0rating (1–6)
69Bangladesh2.0rating (1–6)
70Myanmar1.5rating (1–6)
71Chad1.5rating (1–6)
72Niger1.5rating (1–6)
73Sudan1.5rating (1–6)
74Yemen1.5rating (1–6)
75Afghanistan1.5rating (1–6)
76Eritrea1.0rating (1–6)
77Syrian Arab Republic1.0rating (1–6)
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Data Source

This data comes from CPIA database, World Bank Group (WBG), uri: http://www.worldbank.org/ida (2025).

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