economic2025

Firms using banks to finance working capital (% of firms)

Name: Firms using banks to finance working capital (% of firms)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, finance-markets-taxation, firms, using, banks, finance, working, capital

Compare firms using banks to finance working capital (% of firms) across 61 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•61 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

24.4%

Median: 23.3%

Countries Covered

61

with available data

Highest

Belgium

57.3%

Lowest

Zambia

2.3%

Top 5 Countries

1Belgium57.3%

2Japan53.3%

3Dominican Republic50.2%

4Guatemala46.9%

5Djibouti46.2%

By Region

North America46.9%(1 countries)

South America39.4%(2 countries)

Europe31.7%(12 countries)

Oceania25.4%(1 countries)

Other22.8%(33 countries)

Key Findings

•61 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Belgium has the highest published value (57.2514 %).
•Zambia has the lowest published value (2.30832 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (2.3%)High (57.3%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 24.4%)

North America (1)

South America (2)

Europe (12)

Oceania (1)

Other (33)

Africa (4)

Asia (8)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Percentage of firms using bank loans to finance working capital.

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series IC.FRM.BKWC.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Percentage of firms using bank loans to finance working capital.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Belgium	57.3%
2	Japan	53.3%
3	Dominican Republic	50.2%
4	Guatemala	46.9%
5	Djibouti	46.2%
6	Panama	44.5%
7	Czech Republic	42.3%
8	Kenya	40.8%
9	Mongolia	39.8%
10	Chile	39.8%
11	Brazil	39.0%
12	Netherlands	34.9%
13	Bolivia	34.1%
14	Lithuania	32.6%
15	Poland	32.1%
16	Gabon	31.9%
17	Finland	31.9%
18	Denmark	31.4%
19	Antigua and Barbuda	31.1%
20	Fiji	30.5%
21	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	29.9%
22	Uganda	28.2%
23	Comoros	28.2%
24	Norway	28.1%
25	Burundi	27.2%
26	France	26.4%
27	Belize	26.4%
28	Australia	25.4%
29	Niger	25.2%
30	Austria	23.3%
31	Ethiopia	23.3%
32	Saint Lucia	23.3%
33	Zimbabwe	22.5%
34	Liberia	21.8%
35	Thailand	21.8%
36	Kiribati	21.6%
37	Grenada	20.8%
38	Solomon Islands	20.3%
39	Malawi	20.3%
40	Germany	20.2%
41	Switzerland	19.9%
42	Sri Lanka	17.9%
43	Trinidad and Tobago	16.6%
44	Albania	16.3%
45	India	14.1%
46	Guinea-Bissau	14.1%
47	Brunei Darussalam	12.0%
48	Suriname	11.5%
49	Mozambique	11.1%
50	Sao Tome and Principe	9.7%
51	Maldives	9.5%
52	Mauritania	8.9%
53	Kuwait	8.5%
54	Nigeria	8.4%
55	Somalia	8.4%
56	Saudi Arabia	6.8%
57	Guinea	6.8%
58	Egypt	5.8%
59	Qatar	3.6%
60	Afghanistan	2.8%
61	Zambia	2.3%

Showing 61 of 61 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #finance-markets-taxation #firms #using #banks #finance #working #capital

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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