| Current Rank | Country | Value | Latest Reading | Previous Rank | Previous Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 ↑ | Laos | 72.52 | 2020 | 11 | 51.36 |
| 2 ↑ | Tajikistan | 70.01 | 2020 | 29 | 19.92 |
| 3 ↓ | Japan | 69.86 | 2020 | 2 | 70.07 |
| 4 ↓ | Kyrgyzstan | 67.8 | 2020 | 1 | 72.57 |
| 5 ↑ | Burma (Myanmar) | 65.87 | 2019 | 6 | 58.38 |
| 6 ↓ | South Korea | 65.71 | 2020 | 4 | 65.89 |
| 7 ↑ | Azerbaijan | 64.97 | 2020 | 8 | 53.75 |
| 8 ↓ | Sri Lanka | 58.11 | 2020 | 5 | 60.5 |
| 9 ↓ | Singapore | 57.96 | 2019 | 7 | 57.7 |
| 10 ↓ | Philippines | 57.81 | 2020 | 3 | 66.7 |
| 11 ↑ | Russia | 56.52 | 2020 | 14 | 49.36 |
| 12 ↓ | Indonesia | 55.97 | 2020 | 10 | 53.31 |
| 13 ↓ | Taiwan | 53.03 | 2020 | 12 | 50.77 |
| 14 ↑ | Mongolia | 51.81 | 2020 | 15 | 48.33 |
| 15 ↑ | Vietnam | 49.05 | 2020 | 16 | 47.98 |
| 16 ↑ | Bhutan | 48.24 | 2020 | 23 | 35.13 |
| 17 ↑ | India | 46.8 | 2020 | 18 | 43.44 |
| 18 ↑ | Thailand | 45.33 | 2020 | 20 | 41.02 |
| 19 ↑ | Hong Kong | 45.1 | 2020 | 22 | 40.43 |
| 20 ↓ | Malaysia | 44.42 | 2020 | 17 | 46.61 |
| 21 | Nepal | 44.4 | 2020 | 21 | 40.74 |
| 22 ↓ | Cambodia | 42.69 | 2020 | 19 | 43.17 |
| 23 ↓ | Uzbekistan | 41.66 | 2020 | 9 | 53.51 |
| 24 ↓ | Pakistan | 38.84 | 2020 | 13 | 49.82 |
| 25 ↓ | Bangladesh | 35.17 | 2020 | 24 | 34.62 |
| 26 ↓ | China | 30.52 | 2020 | 25 | 31.17 |
| 27 ↓ | Macao | 29.22 | 2020 | 26 | 29.18 |
| 28 ↓ | Kazakhstan | 28.51 | 2020 | 27 | 26.6 |
| 29 ↓ | Maldives | 27.57 | 2020 | 28 | 26.2 |
| 30 | Turkmenistan | 21.99 | 2019 | 30 | 17.85 |
Operating expenses of a bank as a share of the sum of net-interest revenue and other operating income. The 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.
