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🔒 Firms Fully Credit Constrained

Share of surveyed firms unable to obtain needed external finance.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
56.8% – 19.2%19.1% – 12.2%12.1% – 7.8%7.6% – 2.8%2.7% – 0.0%No data
1
🇶🇦Qatar
56.8%
2
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
48.1%
3
🇪🇹Ethiopia
39.6%
4
🇿🇲Zambia
38.1%
5
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
33.0%
6
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
29.2%
7
🇸🇴Somalia
28.2%
8
🇰🇲Comoros
23.4%
9
🇲🇻Maldives
23.1%
10
🇱🇷Liberia
22.8%
11
🇲🇿Mozambique
22.2%
12
🇦🇫Afghanistan
19.5%
13
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
19.2%
14
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
19.1%
15
🇳🇪Niger
17.9%
16
🇧🇴Bolivia
17.6%
17
🇲🇳Mongolia
17.1%
18
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
16.7%
19
🇸🇷Suriname
16.7%
20
🇬🇳Guinea
15.1%
21
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
14.3%
22
🇲🇼Malawi
13.9%
23
🇳🇬Nigeria
13.3%
24
🇹🇭Thailand
13.1%
25
🇵🇦Panama
12.2%
26
🇬🇩Grenada
12.1%
27
🇧🇳Brunei
11.6%
28
🇲🇷Mauritania
11.1%
29
🇰🇮Kiribati
10.5%
30
🇰🇪Kenya
9.9%
31
🇪🇬Egypt
9.8%
32
🇬🇦Gabon
9.3%
33
🇱🇹Lithuania
8.5%
34
🇵🇱Poland
8.2%
35
🇦🇹Austria
8.1%
36
🇩🇪Germany
8.0%
37
🇧🇿Belize
7.8%
38
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
7.6%
39
🇧🇷Brazil
7.6%
40
🇮🇳India
6.6%
41
🇧🇮Burundi
6.3%
42
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
6.1%
43
🇺🇬Uganda
6.0%
44
🇦🇱Albania
5.5%
45
🇨🇱Chile
4.6%
46
🇫🇷France
4.1%
47
🇫🇯Fiji
3.7%
48
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
3.0%
49
🇩🇯Djibouti
2.8%
50
🇬🇹Guatemala
2.7%

Highlights

As of 2025, Qatar ranks first with 56.8%, followed by Saudi Arabia (48.1%) and Ethiopia (39.6%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 56.8% (Qatar) to 0.0% (Kuwait), with a median of 9.8%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Africa and 4 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms that are fully credit constrained (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms that are fully credit constrained (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026