The Financial Development and Structure dataset updated in November 2013 contains data from 1960 through 2011. Similar to its previous, April 2013 version, the revised dataset covers 203 jurisdictions and it is a subset of the broader Global Financial Development Database.
All indicators have been recalculated for the entire time period to ensure higher quality and consistency over time. The file contains a sheet with definitions and sources. For more detailed definitions and descriptions of the underlying sources, please see the working papers below.
Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou and Subika Farazi were instrumental in this update.
An additional compressed file contains files with macroeconomic and institutional data averaged over the period 1980-95 that have been used as dependent or controlling variables by some of the authors in recent papers. To access the compressed file please click on this self-extracting zip file: download the file, do a File, Run, and the files will be extracted.
Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine (2000) describe the sources and construction of, and the intuition behind, different indicators and present descriptive statistics of the Financial Development and Structure dataset.
Čihák, Demirgüç-Kunt, Feyen, and Levine (2012) discuss the related Global Financial Development Database, which encompasses all the statistics from the Financial Development and Structure dataset, plus several additional series.