Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database

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    The Global Financial Inclusion Database provides 850+ country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics-gender, age, education, income, employment status and rural residence. Covering more than 140 economies, the indicators of financial inclusion measure how people save, borrow, make payments and manage risk. The reference citation for the data is: Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar, and Jake Hess. 2018. The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution. World Bank: Washington, DC.

    Type: 
    Time Series
    Acronym: 
    Global Findex
    Languages Supported: 
    English
    Topics: 
    Agriculture and Food Security
    Economic Growth
    Education
    Gender
    Urban Development
    Granularity: 
    National
    Geographical Coverage: 
    World
    East Asia & Pacific
    Europe & Central Asia
    Latin America & Caribbean
    Middle East & North Africa
    South Asia
    Economy Coverage: 
    High Income
    IBRD
    IDA
    Number of Economies: 
    159
    Periodicity: 
    Annual
    Temporal Coverage: 
    2011 - 2017
    Release Date: 
    April 19, 2012

    Last Updated

    Last Updated: 
    October 15, 2018

    Update Frequency

    Update Frequency: 
    Annually +

    Harvest System ID

    Harvest System ID: 
    Indicators API

    Harvest Source ID

    Harvest Source ID: 
    28
    Access Options:
    Download, Query Tool
    Source Type: 
    World Bank Group
    Data Notes: 
    The Global Findex indicators are drawn from survey data collected over the 2011, 2014 and 2017 calendar years.
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    In just 6 years, financial access has improved dramatically worldwide

    Data Classification: Public
    Date of creation: November 28, 2018
    Interactive View URL: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Z5ato/4/
    Last Updated date: January 31, 2020

    Globally, 1.7 Billion Adults Lack an Account

    Data Classification: Public
    Date of creation: May 17, 2018
    Interactive View URL: http://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/AmFVU/1/
    Last Updated date: January 31, 2020

    Account Ownership Has Grown, But Gender Inequalities Persist

    Data Classification: Public
    Date of creation: May 15, 2018
    Interactive View URL: http://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/kNGQG/2/
    Last Updated date: January 31, 2020
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    The Global Financial Inclusion Database provides 850+ country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics-gender, age, education, income, employment status and rural residence. Covering more than 140 economies, the indicators of financial inclusion measure how people save, borrow, make payments and manage risk. The reference citation for the data is: Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar, and Jake Hess. 2018. The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution. World Bank: Washington, DC.

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    Modified Date
    2020-01-31
    Release Date
    Periodicity
    Annual
    Identifier
    90a34ea4-8a5c-11e6-ae22-56b6b64082
    Temporal Coverage

    2011 - 2017
    License
    License Not Specified
    Contact Email
    Rating: 
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    Acronym: 
    Global Findex
    Type: 
    Time Series
    Languages Supported: 
    English
    Economy Coverage: 
    High Income
    IBRD
    IDA
    Terms of Use: 
    Open Data Access
    Number of Economies: 
    159
    Update Frequency: 
    Annually +
    Update Schedule: 
    Every three years
    Geographical Coverage: 
    World
    East Asia & Pacific
    Europe & Central Asia
    Latin America & Caribbean
    Middle East & North Africa
    South Asia
    Data Classification of a Dataset: 
    Public
    Source Type: 
    World Bank Group
    Start Date: 
    Saturday, January 1, 2011
    End Date: 
    Sunday, December 31, 2017
    DEC
    Programatic Region: 
    East Asia & Pacific
    Europe & Central Asia
    Latin America & Caribbean
    Middle East & North Africa
    South Asia
    World
    Release Date: 
    Thursday, April 19, 2012
    Last Updated Date: 
    Monday, October 15, 2018
    Granularity: 
    National
    Harvest Source: 
    Indicators API
    Harvest System ID: 
    28
    Data Notes: 
    The Global Findex indicators are drawn from survey data collected over the 2011, 2014 and 2017 calendar years.
    Citation Text: 
    Global Findex database
    Modified date: 
    17818
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    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    Primary Dataset: 
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