SME loan application rejection rate
Compare sme loan application rejection rate across 20 countries or territories using one fixed 2024 OECD reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •20 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of loan requests observation in the fixed 2024 slice.
- •United Kingdom has the highest published value (52 Percentage of loan requests).
- •Italy has the lowest published value (1.8 Percentage of loan requests).
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: 13.8Percentage of loan requests)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
OECD Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs: An OECD Scoreboard measure 'Rejection rate'. The map uses the exact official 2024 slice in Percentage of loan requests; fixed dimensions: SEX_OWN=_Z (Not applicable); ENTR_SIZE=SME (SMEs); TRANSACTION_TYPE=_Z (Not applicable); PRICES=_Z (Not applicable).
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2024 OECD slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
OECD Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs: An OECD Scoreboard measure 'Rejection rate'. The map uses the exact official 2024 slice in Percentage of loan requests; fixed dimensions: SEX_OWN=_Z (Not applicable); ENTR_SIZE=SME (SMEs); TRANSACTION_TYPE=_Z (Not applicable); PRICES=_Z (Not applicable).
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 52.0Percentage of loan requests |
| 2 | United States of America | 35.2Percentage of loan requests |
| 3 | Lithuania | 34.1Percentage of loan requests |
| 4 | Finland | 19.3Percentage of loan requests |
| 5 | Malaysia | 18.5Percentage of loan requests |
| 6 | Poland | 16.2Percentage of loan requests |
| 7 | Greece | 15.8Percentage of loan requests |
| 8 | Georgia | 10.1Percentage of loan requests |
| 9 | Spain | 9.9Percentage of loan requests |
| 10 | Serbia | 9.7Percentage of loan requests |
| 11 | Austria | 9.0Percentage of loan requests |
| 12 | Ireland | 8.0Percentage of loan requests |
| 13 | Canada | 7.6Percentage of loan requests |
| 14 | Netherlands | 6.2Percentage of loan requests |
| 15 | Belgium | 5.6Percentage of loan requests |
| 16 | People's Republic of China | 4.7Percentage of loan requests |
| 17 | Hungary | 4.6Percentage of loan requests |
| 18 | France | 4.1Percentage of loan requests |
| 19 | Slovakia | 3.0Percentage of loan requests |
| 20 | Italy | 1.8Percentage of loan requests |
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Data Source
This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2024).
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