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What Banking Markets Are the Most Profitable on Assets?

Bank Pre-tax ROA (%), 2024 or latest
Banking | March 9, 2025
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Based on a comparison of 121 countries in 2024, Malawi ranked the highest in bank pre-tax ROA with 8.81% followed by Argentina and Ukraine. On the other end of the scale was Equatorial Guinea with -1.18%, Vietnam with -1.03% and Macao with 0.205%.

Data for more countries are available at Bank Pre-Tax Return on Assets (Pre-Tax ROA) indicator page.

Bank Pre-Tax Return on Assets (Pre-Tax ROA)Unit
Argentina %
Gambia %
Georgia %
Ghana %
Kazakhstan %
Kyrgyzstan %
Madagascar %
Malawi %
Maldives %
Mozambique %
Papua New Guinea %
Rwanda %
Uganda %
Ukraine %
Zambia %
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
5.39% 6.12% 3.47% 1.77% 2.85% ...
... 2.68% 3.06% 3.11% 2.79% 4.67% ... ...
2.81% 2.42% 0.144% 3.92% 3.82%
... ... ... ... 3.54% 4.00% 4.34% 4.57% 3.17% ...
3.04% 3.65% 3.06% 4.23% 4.20% ...
1.61% 1.44% 0.995% 1.28% 6.39% ...
... 4.35% 3.99% 3.08% 3.38% 3.56%
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3.56% 4.11% 4.66% 5.12% 6.43% ...
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5.65% 4.58% 2.53% 5.75% 4.66% ...
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3.87% 3.70% 2.80% 3.94% 4.69% ...
... ... ... ... 3.81% 4.14% 3.87% 4.40% 3.88% ...
... ... ... ... 3.31% 3.71% 3.31% 4.09% 4.99% ...
... 3.64% 3.93% 3.37% 3.52% 3.58% ...
... 1.60% 4.70% 2.77% 4.46% 1.48% ...
... ... ... 2.77% 3.16% 1.84% 5.11% 5.00% ... ...