🏦 Largest Banks in the World by Total Assets 2008-2020

This bar chart race shows the largest commercial banks in the world by total assets and all worldwide banks combined, in US dollars from 2008 to 2020.

Most numbers are based on the balance at the end of the year (2020 = 31st December 2020), and retrieved march/april the next year.

Notes:
Japan Post Bank was privatized after a bill in 2005, but the process was halted and therefor numbers are not shown before 2012.

Sources:
International Monetary Fund (IMF), S&P Global, Relbank.

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