The degree of financial repression in a country can be estimated by calculating the gap between the average nominal GDP growth rate and the average long-term interest rate, with a larger gap indicating more severe repression. In the last 20 years, this gap has been eight percentage points for China, compared to roughly four percentage points on average for emerging economies and nearly zero for most developed economies, where interest rates are fully liberalized.
平均名义GDP增长率与长期平均利率之间的差额可以用来估算一个国家金融抑制的程度，差额越大表示抑制越严重。20年来中国的差额一直维持在八个百分点，而新兴经济国家平均差额约为4%，多数利率完全市场化的发达国家差额则近乎为零。