South Sudan's bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) was 86.98% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 303.13 percentage points from 390.11% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 86.98% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 165.52% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 390.11% | 2015 |
| Highest | 390.11% | 2015 |
| Lowest | 57.26% | 2023 |
| Average since 2016 | 128.31% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 249.64% | 2011 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, South Sudan's bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) rose 21.63 percentage points on 2024 (from 65.35% to 86.98%).
Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was −14.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 75.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 172.4 percentage points in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 105.57 percentage points in 2016. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 18.98 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 68% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, South Sudan had the 7th highest value of the 109 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| South Sudan | 86.98% | 2025 |
| World | 16.73% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 16.02% | 2025 |
| Low income | 16.36% | 2024 |
Closest to South Sudan in the 2025 ranking
- Mozambique — 3rd of 109: 121.72%
- Haiti — 4th of 109: 119.95%
- Solomon Islands — 5th of 109: 108.78%
- Tonga — 7th of 109: 78.81%
- São Tomé and Principe — 8th of 109: 67.35%
- Mongolia — 9th of 109: 56.8%
What this measures
Ratio of bank liquid reserves to bank assets is the ratio of domestic currency holdings and deposits with the monetary authorities to claims on other governments, nonfinancial public enterprises, the private sector, and other banking institutions. This indicator is expressed as a percentage (a÷b)*100.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
All 15 values
| Year | Bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.98 |
| 2024 | 65.35 |
| 2023 | 57.26 |
| 2022 | 75.76 |
| 2021 | 121.09 |
| 2020 | 165.52 |
| 2019 | 116.9 |
| 2018 | 119.33 |
| 2017 | 190.34 |
| 2016 | 284.54 |
| 2015 |
Bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) in nearby economies
- Angola — 36.53% (2025)
- Benin — 6.48% (2025)
- Botswana — 5.18% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 10.7% (2025)
- Burundi — 13.96% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 44.54% (2025)
- Cameroon — 22.79% (2019)
- Central African Republic — 12.22% (2022)
- Chad — 15.45% (2021)
- Comoros — 47.03% (2024)
More financial sector data for South Sudan
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$3,657 (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 41,281 (2024)
- Commercial bank branches (per 100,000 adults) — 1.7 (2024)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 91.44% (2024)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 3.18% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 13.26 trillion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — -6.33 trillion (2025)
- Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 3.24% (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 4.61 trillion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is South Sudan's bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%)?
- 86.98% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2011?
- It is down 162.65 percentage points from 249.64% in 2011. The highest value was 390.11% in 2015 and the lowest 57.26% in 2023.
- How does South Sudan rank?
- 7th highest of 109 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) unusual for South Sudan?
- In 2025, South Sudan's bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) rose 21.63 percentage points on 2024 (from 65.35% to 86.98%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was −14.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 75.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FD.RES.LIQU.AS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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