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Firms with a bank loan or line of credit
Compare firms with a bank loan or line of credit across 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
Global Average
37.6% of firms
Median: 35.7% of firms
Countries Covered
61
with available data
Highest
Japan
83.2% of firms
Lowest
Zambia
3.1% of firms
Top 5 Countries
1Japan83.2% of firms
2Chile82.7% of firms
3Germany77.4% of firms
4France76.5% of firms
5Belgium74.8% of firms
By Region
Key Findings
- •Coverage: 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 3.108259916 to 83.21382141 % of firms.
- •Discovery motivation: X/Twitter Bank of America and business-finance topics.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Low (3.1% of firms)High (83.2% of firms)
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 37.6% of firms)
About This Statistic
Percentage of firms that have bank loans or a line of credit.
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
Percentage of firms that have bank loans or a line of credit.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 83.2% of firms |
| 2 | Chile | 82.7% of firms |
| 3 | Germany | 77.4% of firms |
| 4 | France | 76.5% of firms |
| 5 | Belgium | 74.8% of firms |
| 6 | Denmark | 68.7% of firms |
| 7 | Guatemala | 68.3% of firms |
| 8 | Finland | 67.7% of firms |
| 9 | Austria | 66.4% of firms |
| 10 | Australia | 63.0% of firms |
| 11 | Saint Lucia | 57.6% of firms |
| 12 | Brazil | 57.6% of firms |
| 13 | Netherlands | 55.1% of firms |
| 14 | Norway | 53.9% of firms |
| 15 | Fiji | 53.8% of firms |
| 16 | Dominican Republic | 53.5% of firms |
| 17 | Mongolia | 52.3% of firms |
| 18 | Belize | 50.0% of firms |
| 19 | Kenya | 46.8% of firms |
| 20 | Switzerland | 46.4% of firms |
| 21 | Lithuania | 46.2% of firms |
| 22 | Thailand | 45.9% of firms |
| 23 | Panama | 43.8% of firms |
| 24 | Bolivia | 43.2% of firms |
| 25 | Czech Republic | 43.2% of firms |
| 26 | Grenada | 39.3% of firms |
| 27 | Solomon Islands | 38.7% of firms |
| 28 | Liberia | 38.4% of firms |
| 29 | Sri Lanka | 37.7% of firms |
| 30 | Gabon | 35.7% of firms |
| 31 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 35.7% of firms |
| 32 | Comoros | 34.8% of firms |
| 33 | Maldives | 34.5% of firms |
| 34 | Antigua and Barbuda | 33.0% of firms |
| 35 | Suriname | 31.0% of firms |
| 36 | Poland | 30.4% of firms |
| 37 | Brunei Darussalam | 29.3% of firms |
| 38 | Trinidad and Tobago | 28.6% of firms |
| 39 | Uganda | 26.0% of firms |
| 40 | Burundi | 23.7% of firms |
| 41 | Ethiopia | 23.5% of firms |
| 42 | Zimbabwe | 23.1% of firms |
| 43 | Albania | 22.8% of firms |
| 44 | Afghanistan | 21.5% of firms |
| 45 | India | 21.5% of firms |
| 46 | Nigeria | 20.8% of firms |
| 47 | Djibouti | 20.5% of firms |
| 48 | Mauritania | 18.9% of firms |
| 49 | Malawi | 18.0% of firms |
| 50 | Niger | 16.4% of firms |
| 51 | Kiribati | 16.1% of firms |
| 52 | Sao Tome and Principe | 15.6% of firms |
| 53 | Saudi Arabia | 13.8% of firms |
| 54 | Kuwait | 11.9% of firms |
| 55 | Mozambique | 11.1% of firms |
| 56 | Guinea-Bissau | 10.3% of firms |
| 57 | Qatar | 9.8% of firms |
| 58 | Egypt | 7.0% of firms |
| 59 | Somalia | 5.4% of firms |
| 60 | Guinea | 4.9% of firms |
| 61 | Zambia | 3.1% of firms |
Showing 61 of 61 countries
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).
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