Which jurisdictions are included in the FSI?
The 2020 edition of the Financial Secrecy Index ranks 133 jurisdictions. Each of the 133 jurisdictions has a detailed country report, explaining its secrecy score and providing extra data. Some country reports also contain detailed narrative reports, marked in bold and with a pdf symbol in the list below, which explore the jurisdiction's history and political economy and explain how it developed into a secrecy jurisdiction.
The country reports listed below are also complemented by far more detailed technical database reports for each jurisdiction, which provide the underlying sources and references for the country reports and a wealth of additional details.
Click on a jurisdiction in the table below to get the country report. The full list of database reports is here.
Jurisdictions in the Financial Secrecy Index 2020
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Commercial users must purchase a licence to use this data. Click here for more information. How did we choose these jurisdictions? Some people are surprised to see countries like Germany or the United States identified as secrecy jurisdictions. Every country in the world, has at least some elements that make it a secrecy jurisdiction. This may simply be because of omission: the country has not set up the information sharing and other mechanisms that would reduce its secrecy score to zero. Media stories and other sources indicate that Germany and the USA host large illicit assets from other countries, in conditions of secrecy, as their special reports explain.
For more details, see our methodology here. In subsequent editions of the Financial Secrecy Index, we plan to include more jurisdictions, eventually covering all jurisdictions. |
