Bank Concentration

Africa Ranking

percent of nationwide bank assetsSource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1 ↑	Tunisia	100	2020	12	90.33
1	Chad	100	2013	1	100
1	Djibouti	100	2019	1	100
1	Republic of the Congo	100	2011	1	100
1 ↑	Burkina Faso	100	2020	38	55.56
1 ↑	Democratic Republic of the Congo	100	2020	27	68.59
1	Seychelles	100	2019	1	100
8 ↓	South Africa	99.45	2020	5	98.66
9 ↓	Morocco	99.21	2020	7	96.22
10 ↓	Namibia	97.7	2019	6	97.02
11 ↓	Botswana	97.37	2019	8	95.81
12 ↑	Gabon	93.14	2019	15	88.42
13 ↓	Liberia	91.45	2019	11	90.44
14 ↑	Libya	91.2	2019	30	67.55
15 ↓	Lesotho	90.95	2020	10	91.61
16 ↓	Sudan	90.7	2012	14	88.93
17 ↓	Malawi	88.34	2014	13	89.6
18 ↑	Zambia	87.01	2017	23	72.12
19 ↓	Gambia	86.37	2019	16	87.87
20 ↓	Swaziland	85.82	2014	18	82.89
21 ↑	Mauritania	82.74	2020	26	71.2
22 ↓	Nigeria	82.05	2020	9	91.62
23 ↓	Guinea	81.69	2020	22	72.52
24	Cape Verde	81.52	2020	24	72.01
25 ↓	Burundi	80.5	2020	17	84.19
26 ↓	Madagascar	78.72	2019	20	76.51
27 ↓	Benin	75.01	2018	19	78.23
28 ↓	Egypt	74.96	2018	21	74.3
29 ↑	Kenya	74.1	2020	32	66.58
30 ↑	Zimbabwe	72.75	2020	33	66.4
31 ↓	Sierra Leone	69.89	2013	28	68.4
32 ↓	Algeria	69.22	2019	29	68.29
33 ↓	Mozambique	68.87	2020	25	71.74
34 ↑	Mauritius	68.21	2020	35	60.73
35 ↓	Togo	62.41	2019	31	66.95
36 ↓	Uganda	61.14	2018	34	61.94
37 ↓	Rwanda	60.66	2019	36	59.56
38 ↑	Cameroon	59.8	2019	39	53.62
39 ↓	Niger	59.67	2019	37	59.33
40 ↑	Tanzania	52.91	2020	45	35.89
41 ↓	Mali	51.94	2019	40	50.1
42 ↓	Ethiopia	50.74	2020	41	48.46
43 ↓	Ivory Coast	50.06	2020	42	46.78
44 ↓	Senegal	43.72	2019	43	41.94
45 ↓	Ghana	42.01	2019	44	41.92

Definition of Bank Concentration

Raw data are from Bankscope. (Sum(data2025) for three largest banks in Bankscope) / (Sum(data2025) for all banks in Bankscope). Only reported if number of banks in Bankscope is 3 or more. Calculated from underlying bank-by-bank unconsolidated data from Bankscope.