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.

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Rank Country Value Year
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).