Niger: financial freedom index 2024

In 2024, the financial freedom score for Niger stood at 40 points, continuing the stable trend visible since 2017. According to the index, this indicates that the country's financial freedom is repressed, as it is lower than the world average of 49 points in 2024, based on 175 countries. The indicator measures several factors, including governments' regulation of financial services, the development of capital markets, as well as states' intervention in banks and other financial institutions.

Financial freedom sub-score of Niger on the Economic Freedom Index from 2017 to 2024

Characteristic	Index (1-100)
2024	40
2023	40
2022	40
2021	40
2020	40
2019	40
2018	40
2017	40

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

Africa, Niger

Survey time period

2017 to 2024

Supplementary notes

The Financial freedom index evaluates: the extent to which governments regulate financial services, how states intervene in banks and other financial firms via direct and indirect ownership, the development extent of financial and capital markets, how governments influence credit allocation, and openness to foreign competition. The higher the index value, the higher banking efficiency, independence from government control, and interference in the financial sector.

Index: 100 =Total economic freedom; 80–99 = free; 70.0–79.9 = mostly free; 60.0–69.9 = moderately free; 50.0–59.9 = mostly unfree; 0–49.9 = repressed; 0 = no economic freedom.

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