Firms using banks to finance investment
Compare firms using banks to finance investment across 61 countries and territories using the World Bank's official 2025 fixed-year API slice.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 0 to 64.39775085 % of firms.
- •Discovery motivation: Google Trends Germany surfaced Bank Sepah, motivating a comparison of firms' use of banks to finance fixed-asset investment.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 26.3% of firms)
About This Statistic
Percentage of firms using banks to finance purchases of fixed assets.
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 comparison of firms' use of banks to finance fixed-asset investment.
Methodology
Percentage of firms using banks to finance purchases of fixed assets.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qatar | 64.4% of firms |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 57.1% of firms |
| 3 | Belgium | 53.3% of firms |
| 4 | Uganda | 52.2% of firms |
| 5 | Malawi | 47.7% of firms |
| 6 | Zimbabwe | 47.7% of firms |
| 7 | India | 47.5% of firms |
| 8 | Burundi | 47.2% of firms |
| 9 | Poland | 46.8% of firms |
| 10 | Panama | 43.6% of firms |
| 11 | Kenya | 42.1% of firms |
| 12 | Chile | 41.4% of firms |
| 13 | Dominican Republic | 41.1% of firms |
| 14 | France | 41.1% of firms |
| 15 | Djibouti | 39.8% of firms |
| 16 | Lithuania | 38.2% of firms |
| 17 | Guatemala | 36.1% of firms |
| 18 | Saint Lucia | 34.6% of firms |
| 19 | Japan | 33.6% of firms |
| 20 | Bolivia | 33.3% of firms |
| 21 | Mongolia | 32.8% of firms |
| 22 | Brazil | 30.4% of firms |
| 23 | Sri Lanka | 30.1% of firms |
| 24 | Fiji | 29.9% of firms |
| 25 | Germany | 29.2% of firms |
| 26 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 29.0% of firms |
| 27 | Australia | 28.8% of firms |
| 28 | Czech Republic | 28.7% of firms |
| 29 | Belize | 28.4% of firms |
| 30 | Austria | 27.1% of firms |
| 31 | Netherlands | 24.9% of firms |
| 32 | Finland | 24.9% of firms |
| 33 | Denmark | 24.8% of firms |
| 34 | Gabon | 23.9% of firms |
| 35 | Solomon Islands | 22.4% of firms |
| 36 | Comoros | 21.3% of firms |
| 37 | Norway | 20.8% of firms |
| 38 | Ethiopia | 20.7% of firms |
| 39 | Niger | 20.1% of firms |
| 40 | Kiribati | 18.6% of firms |
| 41 | Suriname | 16.1% of firms |
| 42 | Brunei Darussalam | 15.9% of firms |
| 43 | Mozambique | 15.6% of firms |
| 44 | Sao Tome and Principe | 15.1% of firms |
| 45 | Albania | 13.9% of firms |
| 46 | Guinea-Bissau | 13.8% of firms |
| 47 | Thailand | 13.4% of firms |
| 48 | Mauritania | 13.0% of firms |
| 49 | Switzerland | 12.6% of firms |
| 50 | Antigua and Barbuda | 10.0% of firms |
| 51 | Guinea | 9.0% of firms |
| 52 | Egypt | 8.9% of firms |
| 53 | Grenada | 8.9% of firms |
| 54 | Maldives | 8.6% of firms |
| 55 | Nigeria | 5.2% of firms |
| 56 | Liberia | 4.6% of firms |
| 57 | Somalia | 4.3% of firms |
| 58 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3.1% of firms |
| 59 | Afghanistan | 2.5% of firms |
| 60 | Zambia | 2.0% of firms |
| 61 | Kuwait | 0.0% of firms |
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Data Source
This data comes from Enterprise Surveys, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/data (2025).
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