Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider (% 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 (% age 15+).

Source: Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2018, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Mauritius 89.84 2017
2 Kenya 81.57 2017
3 Namibia 80.63 2017
4 South Africa 69.22 2017
5 Libya 65.67 2017
6 Uganda 59.20 2017
7 Gabon 58.60 2017
8 Ghana 57.72 2017
9 Zimbabwe 55.29 2017
10 Botswana 51.03 2017
11 Rwanda 50.02 2017
12 Tanzania 46.75 2017
13 Zambia 45.86 2017
14 Lesotho 45.56 2017
15 Togo 45.29 2017
16 Burkina Faso 43.16 2017
17 Algeria 42.78 2017
18 Senegal 42.34 2017
19 Mozambique 41.67 2017
20 Côte d'Ivoire 41.33 2017
21 Nigeria 39.67 2017
22 Somalia 38.66 2014
23 Benin 38.49 2017
24 Tunisia 36.91 2017
25 Liberia 35.71 2017
26 Mali 35.42 2017
27 Ethiopia 34.83 2017
28 Cameroon 34.59 2017
29 Malawi 33.71 2017
30 Egypt 32.78 2017
31 Angola 29.32 2014
32 Morocco 28.64 2017
33 Eswatini 28.57 2011
34 Congo 26.09 2017
35 Dem. Rep. Congo 25.83 2017
36 Guinea 23.49 2017
37 Chad 21.76 2017
38 Comoros 21.69 2011
39 Mauritania 20.87 2017
40 Sierra Leone 19.81 2017
41 Madagascar 17.87 2017
42 Niger 15.52 2017
43 Sudan 15.27 2014
44 Central African Republic 13.75 2017
45 Djibouti 12.27 2011
46 Burundi 7.11 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).