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Number of countries rated by Moody's worldwide as of March 2013, by rating category

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Release date

March 2013

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Worldwide

Survey time period

March 21, 2013

Supplementary notes

At the time of the survey, Moody's rated the reliability of 119 countries in total.

Moody's rating categories:
Aaa: Rated as the highest quality and lowest credit risk.
Aa1, Aa2, Aa3: Rated as high quality and very low credit risk.
A1, A2, A3: Rated as upper-medium grade and low credit risk.
Baa1, Baa2, Baa3: Rated as medium grade, with some speculative elements and moderate credit risk.
Ba1, Ba2, Ba3: Judged to have speculative elements and a significant credit risk.
B1, B2, B3: Judged as being speculative and a high credit risk.
Caa1, Caa2, Caa3, Ca: Rated as poor quality and very high credit risk.
Ca: Judged to be highly speculative and with likelihood of being near or in default, but some possibility of recovering principal and interest.
C: Rated as the lowest quality, usually in default and low likelihood of recovering principal or interest.

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The statistic shows the rating categories of global countries set by the rating agency Moody's as of . Rating agencies are private, profit-oriented companies which rate the reliability of companies and states. The most influential rating agencies are the U.S. agencies Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch.
In , Moody's rated * countries as category A1, meaning that the state bonds of these countries are a safe investment.