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Countries with consumer protection laws covering financial services

Binary indicator: 1 indicates yes; 0 indicates no. 294_Is there a general consumer protection law with explicit reference to financial services in place?_#VGUA_01, 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

Africa · 26

Oceania · 5

Asia · 34

Americas · 22

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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.

🇦🇱Albania

Yes

🇦🇴Angola

Yes

🇦🇺Australia

Yes

🇦🇹Austria

Yes

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Yes

🇧🇪Belgium

Yes

🇧🇴Bolivia

Yes

🇧🇼Botswana

Yes

🇧🇷Brazil

Yes

🇰🇭Cambodia

Yes

🇨🇱Chile

Yes

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Yes

🇸🇻El Salvador

Yes

🇸🇿Eswatini

Yes

🇫🇯Fiji

Yes

🇫🇮Finland

Yes

🇫🇷France

Yes

🇬🇲Gambia

Yes

🇬🇷Greece

Yes

🇭🇳Honduras

Yes

🇮🇩Indonesia

Yes

🇮🇱Israel

Yes

🇮🇹Italy

Yes

🇯🇵Japan

Yes

🇰🇪Kenya

Yes

🇱🇻Latvia

Yes

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Yes

🇲🇼Malawi

Yes

🇲🇹Malta

Yes

🇲🇷Mauritania

Yes

🇲🇽Mexico

Yes

🇲🇩Moldova

Yes

🇲🇦Morocco

Yes

🇵🇪Peru

Yes

🇵🇭Philippines

Yes

🇵🇱Poland

Yes

🇸🇲San Marino

Yes

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Yes

🇸🇪Sweden

Yes

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Yes

🇺🇾Uruguay

Yes

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Yes

🇦🇫Afghanistan

🇦🇷Argentina

🇦🇲Armenia

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

🇧🇸Bahamas

🇧🇭Bahrain

🇧🇹Bhutan

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Highlights

As of 2017, Albania ranks first with Yes, followed by Angola (Yes) and Australia (Yes).

The top two are virtually level: Albania and Angola differ by less than 1%.

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

By region, the top 10 is made up of 3 from Europe, 2 from Africa, 2 from the Americas, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

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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