Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider, poorest 40% (% of population ages 15+) - Country Ranking - Africa
Definition: Account denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution or report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months (poorest 40%, share of population ages 15+).
Source: Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2018, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison
Rank | Country | Value | Year |
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1 | Mauritius | 86.32 | 2017 |
2 | Kenya | 70.45 | 2017 |
3 | Namibia | 70.42 | 2017 |
4 | South Africa | 62.64 | 2017 |
5 | Libya | 58.28 | 2017 |
6 | Gabon | 49.83 | 2017 |
7 | Ghana | 48.34 | 2017 |
8 | Uganda | 47.30 | 2017 |
9 | Zimbabwe | 43.60 | 2017 |
10 | Rwanda | 38.65 | 2017 |
11 | Tanzania | 37.25 | 2017 |
12 | Algeria | 34.97 | 2017 |
13 | Togo | 34.74 | 2017 |
14 | Botswana | 34.67 | 2017 |
15 | Senegal | 34.49 | 2017 |
16 | Côte d'Ivoire | 34.17 | 2017 |
17 | Lesotho | 32.39 | 2017 |
18 | Benin | 31.85 | 2017 |
19 | Mali | 31.26 | 2017 |
20 | Zambia | 31.24 | 2017 |
21 | Somalia | 27.36 | 2014 |
22 | Mozambique | 26.80 | 2017 |
23 | Burkina Faso | 26.74 | 2017 |
24 | Liberia | 26.60 | 2017 |
25 | Cameroon | 24.98 | 2017 |
26 | Nigeria | 24.53 | 2017 |
27 | Ethiopia | 22.41 | 2017 |
28 | Malawi | 21.21 | 2017 |
29 | Tunisia | 21.05 | 2017 |
30 | Egypt | 20.32 | 2017 |
31 | Guinea | 19.90 | 2017 |
32 | Morocco | 19.29 | 2017 |
33 | Congo | 18.16 | 2017 |
34 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 17.39 | 2017 |
35 | Eswatini | 16.40 | 2011 |
36 | Chad | 14.14 | 2017 |
37 | Sierra Leone | 12.92 | 2017 |
38 | Mauritania | 12.83 | 2017 |
39 | Angola | 12.54 | 2014 |
40 | Madagascar | 12.34 | 2017 |
41 | Comoros | 10.60 | 2011 |
42 | Niger | 10.49 | 2017 |
43 | Central African Republic | 9.20 | 2017 |
44 | Sudan | 7.53 | 2014 |
45 | Burundi | 1.34 | 2014 |
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Aggregation method: Weighted average
Periodicity: Annual
General Comments: Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).