Firms that are partially credit constrained

Firms are categorized as partially credit constrained if any of the following conditions are met: (1) the firm applied for a loan and the application was partially approved; (2) the firm applied for a loan and the application was rejected, but the firm has access to external sources of finance excluding any equity finance; or (3) the firm has external finance but did not apply for a loan due to any reason other than no need for it. This indicator is based on Islam and Rodriguez Meza (2023, Islam, Asif Mohammed and Jorge Luis Rodriguez Meza. “How Prevalent Are Credit-Constrained Firms in the Formal Private Sector? Evidence Using Global Surveys”. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper; no. WPS 10502).

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
170
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank Group

    Enterprise Surveys, World Bank Group (WBG), uri: https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/data

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202517.96percent
Albania20257.10percent
Antigua and Barbuda20256.17percent
Australia20254.62percent
Austria20259.44percent
Belgium20259.43percent
Belize202512.38percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of202522.13percent
Brazil202513.72percent
Brunei Darussalam202511.71percent

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