• Akzo Nobel average debt/equity ratio for 2023 was 0.76, a 18.75% decline from 2022.
• Akzo Nobel average debt/equity ratio for 2022 was 0.64, a 56.1% increase from 2021.
• Akzo Nobel average debt/equity ratio for 2021 was 0.41, a 2.38% increase from 2020.

Debt/equity ratio can be defined as a measure of a company's financial leverage calculated by dividing its long-term debt by stockholders' equity.