Bank overhead costs to total assets in Libya
Libya: Bank overhead costs to total assets was 0.3% in 2020. β² Rising
Bank overhead costs to total assets in Libya, 2000β2020
Source: Bankscope, Bureau van Dijk (BvD). Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2020, bank overhead costs to total assets in Libya stood at 0.3%. That is the lowest value across all 19 years on record.
The figure is down 73.2% on the previous year and down 73.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bank overhead costs to total assets in Libya peaked at 1.6% in 2018 and was at its lowest, 0.3%, in 2020.
That places Libya 167th out of 167 countries with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 19 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.7% | 0.5% | 1.2% | 8 |
| 2010s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1 |
Countries ranked near Libya
More financial sector data for Libya
- Net domestic credit (current LCU), per capita 7,742 current LCU per person (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU), per unit of GDP 1.2 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU), annual growth rate 33.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gold reserves at 35 SDRs per ounce 165.03 million SDR (2025)
- Gold reserves at market value 15.04 billion SDR (2025)
- Reserves excluding gold, foreign exchange 57.67 billion SDR (2025)
- Reserves excluding gold 61.38 billion SDR (2025)
- Total reserves (gold at market value) 76.42 billion SDR (2025)
- Total reserves (gold at national valuation) 62.92 billion SDR (2025)
- Total reserves (gold at national valuation) (SDR), per capita 8,435 SDR per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bank overhead costs to total assets in Libya?
- Bank overhead costs to total assets in Libya was 0.3% in 2020, according to Bankscope, Bureau van Dijk (BvD).
- What is the highest bank overhead costs to total assets recorded in Libya?
- The highest recorded value was 1.6% in 2018.
- What is the lowest bank overhead costs to total assets recorded in Libya?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3% in 2020.
- How does Libya rank for bank overhead costs to total assets?
- Libya ranks 167th out of 167 countries with data for 2020.
- Is bank overhead costs to total assets rising or falling in Libya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 73.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Libya data come from?
- The figures come from Bankscope, Bureau van Dijk (BvD), published as part of Bank overhead costs to total assets (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV Β· JSON β 19 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).
About this data
Raw data are from Bankscope. Data2090[t] / ((data2025[t] + data2025[t-1])/2). Numerator and denominator are first aggregated on the country level before division. Note that banks used in the calculation might differ between indicators. Calculated from underlying bank-by-bank unconsolidated data from Bankscope.