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This statistic shows the Aaggregated balance sheet (total assets) of banks in selected countries worldwide in comparison to GDP(in billion U.S. dollars). Systemically-important banks are institutions whose economic impact is too great to let them go bankrupt. At the time of the survey, the aggregate balance sheet of the systemically-important banks in the United Kingdom totaled around 8.6 trillion U.S. dollars. By comparison, the GDP of the United Kingdom amounted to around 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars.