EIU Country Financial Risk
EIU Country Financial Risk
EIU Country Financial Risk
EIU’s Financial Risk provides forward-looking intelligence on financial stability and the risk of financial crises across 130+ developed and emerging markets.
The service assesses 59 quantitative and qualitative risk factors covering monetary, fiscal and banking-sector vulnerabilities, alongside underlying political, structural, macroeconomic and market conditions.
Its risk-modeling framework provides an overall Financial Risk score, alongside assessments of currency, banking sector, political and economic structure risk, helping users identify potential vulnerabilities and compare risk across markets.
With a 12-month risk horizon, the model provides early warning of major financial crises, including balance-of-payments crises and large-scale banking sector insolvency.
By combining EIU’s macroeconomic and financial data with independent country expertise, Financial Risk supports risk monitoring, stress testing, portfolio analysis and strategic decision-making.
Each row is one countryCode and month (YYYYMM). The overall score is AVSC, with category scores for banking-sector, currency, political, and economic-structure risk, plus component indicators such as public debt, current-account balances, non-performing loans, exchange-rate misalignment, and access to financing. Query by EIU geography code, for example /US or /US/202401. date is the first day of the month (YYYY-MM-01).
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Use Cases
- Financial Risk Monitoring - Identify and monitor vulnerabilities across currencies, banking systems, public finances and broader macroeconomic conditions.
- Portfolio & Sovereign Risk Analysis - Incorporate comparable country-level financial risk indicators into investment, sovereign and portfolio risk frameworks.
- Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis - Assess exposure to potential financial shocks, including currency, sovereign debt and banking-sector crises, and model their potential impact.
- Stability & Risk Benchmarking - Compare financial stability and underlying vulnerabilities across developed and emerging markets using a consistent risk framework.
- Economic & Strategic Planning - Use forward-looking risk intelligence to anticipate financial disruption and strengthen planning and mitigation strategies.
- Policy & Regulatory Analysis - Support assessments of systemic financial vulnerabilities, fiscal sustainability and macro-financial stability.
Highlights
- Financial risk intelligence across 131 markets, covering both developed and emerging economies.
- 59 quantitative and qualitative risk factors, combining macroeconomic and financial data with EIU’s independent country expertise.
- Early warning of financial instability, with a 12-month risk horizon covering currency, banking and broader financial crisis risks.
- Consistent, comparable risk scoring, enabling organizations to benchmark vulnerabilities across markets and integrate insights into risk models and analytical workflows.
Provider
Methods
https://api.blueskyapi.com/v1/data/EDGE/EIU_COUNTRY_FINANCIAL_RISK/:countryCodehttps://api.blueskyapi.com/v1/data/EDGE/EIU_COUNTRY_FINANCIAL_RISK/:countryCode/:YYYYMM- https://api.blueskyapi.com/v1/data/EDGE/EIU_COUNTRY_FINANCIAL_RISK/US
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Response Attributes
| Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AVAF | number, null | Financial risk adjustment factor |
| AVSC | number, null | Financial risk score |
| BSAF | number, null | Banking sector risk adjustment factor |
| BSSC | number, null | Banking sector risk score |
| CUAF | number, null | Currency risk adjustment factor |
| CUSC | number, null | Currency risk score |
| I001 | number, null | External conflict |
| I002 | number, null | Governability/social unrest |
| I003 | number, null | Orderly transfers |
| I005 | number, null | Event risk |
| I007 | number, null | Institutional effectiveness |
| I011 | number, null | Political support for creditors |
| I012 | number, null | Inflation, 48 months |
| I013 | number, null | Inflation, direction |
| I014 | number, null | Real interest rates |
| I020 | number, null | Financial regulation and supervision |
| I021 | number, null | Fiscal balance/GDP |
| I024 | number, null | Public debt/GDP |
| I026 | number, null | Trade-weighted real exchange rate |
| I027 | number, null | Exchange-rate misalignment |
| I028 | number, null | Exchange-rate regime |
| I032 | number, null | Black market/dual exchange rate |
| I035 | number, null | Official data (quality/timeliness) |
| I039 | number, null | OECD short-term interest rates |
| I040 | number, null | Real OECD GDP growth |
| I041 | number, null | International financial support |
| I042 | number, null | External shock/contagion |
| I047 | number, null | Real GDP growth, 48 months |
| I048 | number, null | Real GDP growth, 12 months |
| I050 | number, null | Current-account balance, 48 months |
| I051 | number, null | Fiscal policy flexibility |
| I052 | number, null | Current-account balance, latest |
| I055 | number, null | Reliance on a single goods export |
| I056 | number, null | Export receipts growth, 12 months |
| I057 | number, null | Default history |
| I058 | number, null | External solvency indicator |
| I059 | number, null | Debt servicing indicator |
| I060 | number, null | Interest charges ratio |
| I062 | number, null | Non-performing loans |
| I065 | number, null | Banks' foreign asset position/yield curve |
| I066 | number, null | Corruption/state intervention in banks |
| I068 | number, null | Debt term structure |
| I069 | number, null | Foreign exchange reserves/public debt currency structure |
| I070 | number, null | Debt liquidity indicator |
| I071 | number, null | FDI and external financing |
| I072 | number, null | Import cover/government deposits as % of interest charges |
| I076 | number, null | Access to financing |
| I101 | number, null | Sovereignty risk |
| I102 | number, null | Quality of policymaking/policy mix |
| I103 | number, null | IMF programme/excessive deficit procedure |
| I104 | number, null | Credit growth |
| I105 | number, null | Transfer and convertibility risk |
| I106 | number, null | Transparency of public finances |
| I107 | number, null | Public finance/debt indicator |
| I108 | number, null | Volatility of GDP growth |
| I109 | number, null | Gross financing requirement |
| I111 | number, null | Monetary stability |
| I113 | number, null | Use of indirect instruments |
| I114 | number, null | Unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities |
| I116 | number, null | Exchange-rate volatility |
| I117 | number, null | Electoral cycle |
| I118 | number, null | Asset price valuation |
| I119 | number, null | Income level |
| I120 | number, null | Corruption |
| I121 | number, null | Banks' credit management |
| PSAF | number, null | Political risk adjustment factor |
| PSSC | number, null | Political risk score |
| STAF | number, null | Economic structure risk adjustment factor |
| STSC | number, null | Economic structure risk score |
| TENS | number, null | Macroeconomy |
| TEP0 | number, null | Economic policy |
| TES0 | number, null | Economic structure |
| TL00 | number, null | Finance and liquidity |
| TP00 | number, null | Politics/institutions |
countryCode* key | string | EIU geography 2-letter country code identifying the country for this row. |
| countryName | string, null | Country name associated with the geography, when available. |
date* index | string | Calendar date of the financial risk snapshot (ISO 8601 date). |
month* subkey | string | Observation month in YYYYMM format. |
| monthNumber | number, null | Calendar month number (1-12). |
| publishedAt | string, null | EIU publication timestamp for this vintage, when available. |
| source | string, null | Source attribution for the indicator values. |
| year | string, null | Reporting year for the indicator bundle, as a string. |
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Disclaimer
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Attribution
Source: Economist Enterprise