Based on a comparison of 160 countries in 2017, USA ranked the highest in number of banks with 4,886 banks followed by Russia and United Kingdom. On the other end of the scale was Central African Republic with 4.00 banks, Papua New Guinea with 4.00 banks and Comoros with 4.00 banks.
Data for more countries are available at Number of Banks indicator page.
| Number of Banks | Unit | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Brazil | banks | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 128 | 129 | 124 | 122 | 123 | |||||||||
| China | banks | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 201 | 203 | 204 | 192 | 190 | ... | ||||||
| France | banks | 281 | 278 | 280 | 269 | 269 | ||||||||||||||||
| Germany | banks | 284 | 273 | 277 | 276 | 271 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hong Kong | banks | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 152 | 155 | 156 | 159 | 157 | |||||||||
| India | banks | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 169 | 173 | 157 | 151 | 157 | |||||||||
| Italy | banks | 329 | 325 | 315 | 321 | 278 | ||||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | banks | 142 | 142 | 147 | 148 | 143 | ||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | banks | 87.0 | 85.0 | 88.0 | 211 | 208 | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Russia | banks | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 922 | 897 | 859 | 783 | 681 | |||||||||
| Singapore | banks | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 121 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 123 | |||||||||
| Spain | banks | 201 | 190 | 176 | 161 | 154 | ||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | banks | 312 | 297 | 283 | 275 | 266 | ||||||||||||||||
| USA | banks | 6,228 | 6,026 | 5,807 | 5,568 | 5,304 | ||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | banks | 327 | 311 | 311 | 317 | 311 |
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