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Countries with a stand-alone financial consumer protection law

Binary indicator: 1 indicates yes; 0 indicates no. 295_Is there a stand-alone financial consumer protection law in place?_#VGUA_02, reported by Global Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection Survey in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2017📏 yes/no (1=yes)119 entries

Europe · 32

Americas · 22

Africa · 26

Asia · 34

Oceania · 5

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (yes/no (1=yes)); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇦🇹Austria

Yes

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Yes

🇨🇴Colombia

Yes

🇩🇰Denmark

Yes

🇸🇿Eswatini

Yes

🇫🇮Finland

Yes

🇩🇪Germany

Yes

🇬🇷Greece

Yes

🇮🇱Israel

Yes

🇯🇵Japan

Yes

🇲🇹Malta

Yes

🇲🇽Mexico

Yes

🇲🇪Montenegro

Yes

🇳🇿New Zealand

Yes

🇳🇴Norway

Yes

🇵🇪Peru

Yes

🇵🇱Poland

Yes

🇷🇺Russia

Yes

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Yes

🇿🇦South Africa

Yes

🇪🇸Spain

Yes

🇸🇪Sweden

Yes

🇹🇭Thailand

Yes

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Yes

🇿🇲Zambia

Yes

🇦🇫Afghanistan

🇦🇱Albania

🇦🇴Angola

🇦🇷Argentina

🇦🇲Armenia

🇦🇺Australia

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

🇧🇸Bahamas

🇧🇭Bahrain

🇧🇩Bangladesh

🇧🇪Belgium

🇧🇹Bhutan

🇧🇴Bolivia

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

🇧🇼Botswana

🇧🇷Brazil

🇧🇮Burundi

🇰🇭Cambodia

🇨🇦Canada

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

🇨🇱Chile

🇨🇳China

🇨🇷Costa Rica

🇭🇷Croatia

🇩🇯Djibouti

Highlights

As of 2017, Austria ranks first with Yes, followed by Bulgaria (Yes) and Colombia (Yes).

The top two are virtually level: Austria and Bulgaria differ by less than 1%.

Across 119 countries and territories, values run from Yes (Austria) to No (Zimbabwe), with a median of No.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 2 from Asia, 1 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data, 2017. Unit: yes/no (1=yes).

Source: World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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