Data for 2021

Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2021

Name: Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2021
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

Figures for 2021, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2021 covers 122 countries. 2 countries share the highest reading, 100.00; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.83. The middle country reads 73.70. Against 2017, 119 values changed (93 up, 26 down), 3 countries joined, 25 left.

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Account Ownership at a Financial Institution · Data for 2021

Highest2 countries share it

100.00

LowestSouth Sudan

5.83

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

122countries
1measure
2021the year it describes
121distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2021, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
=1	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	100.00
=1	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	100.00
3	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	99.98
4	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	99.95
5	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	99.76
6	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	99.73
7	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	99.69
8	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	99.66
9	Canada`CAN`Northern America	99.63
10	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.53
11	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	99.49
12	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.48
13	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	99.38
14	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	99.32
15	France`FRA`Western Europe	99.24
16	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	99.05
17	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	99.01
18	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	98.75
19	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	98.67
20	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	98.49
21	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	98.46
22	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	98.30
23	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	97.80
24	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	97.55
25	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	97.29
26	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	96.62
27	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	96.45
28	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	95.72
29	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	95.62
30	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	95.58
31	United States`USA`Northern America	94.95
32	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	94.94
33	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	94.88
34	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	93.53
35	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	93.13
36	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	92.93
37	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	92.65
38	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	91.80
39	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	90.53
40	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	89.98
41	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	89.72
42	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	89.42
43	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	89.27
44	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	88.71
45	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	88.37
46	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	88.22
47	Chile`CHL`South America	87.06
48	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	85.74
49	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	85.38
50	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	85.29
51	Venezuela`VEN`South America	84.39
52	Brazil`BRA`South America	84.04
53	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	83.97
54	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	83.56
55	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	81.11
56	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	79.34
57	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	79.20
58	India`IND`Southern Asia	77.53
59	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	74.32
60	Uruguay`URY`South America	74.13
61	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	74.09
62	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	73.30
63	Argentina`ARG`South America	71.63
64	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	71.35
65	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	70.50
66	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	69.12
67	Bolivia`BOL`South America	68.89
68	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	68.49
69	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	68.23
70	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	66.09
71	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	65.91
72	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	64.25
73	Ecuador`ECU`South America	64.18
74	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	59.75
75	Colombia`COL`South America	59.72
76	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	58.01
77	Peru`PER`South America	57.50
78	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	55.96
79	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	55.35
80	Paraguay`PRY`South America	54.42
81	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	54.00
82	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	52.81
83	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	52.43
84	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	51.76
85	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	51.65
86	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	51.63
87	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	51.37
88	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	51.30
89	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	50.76
90	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	49.61
91	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	49.49
92	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	48.61
93	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	48.52
94	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	47.79
95	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	47.14
96	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	47.12
97	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	45.32
98	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	45.09
99	Panama`PAN`Central America	44.97
100	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	44.37
101	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	44.17
102	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	44.13
103	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	44.10
104	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	43.50
105	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	42.71
106	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	39.49
107	Honduras`HND`Central America	37.85
108	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	37.32
109	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	36.85
110	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	36.11
111	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	35.85
112	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	33.64
113	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	33.39
114	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	30.44
115	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	28.85
116	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	27.44
117	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	26.03
118	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	20.98
119	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	20.70
120	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	18.57
121	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	9.65
122	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	5.83

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Denmarkshared100.00
1Icelandshared100.00
3Germany99.98
4Austria99.95
5United Kingdom99.76

Lowest

122South Sudan5.83
121Afghanistan9.65
120Iraq18.57
119Lebanon20.70
118Pakistan20.98

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 73.70. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2021

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+3 / −25countries joined / left
119values changed, of 119 in both
93 · 26rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Argentina48.71 → 71.63+22.92
Kazakhstan58.70 → 81.11+22.41
Myanmar25.99 → 47.79+21.80
Republic of the Congo26.09 → 47.14+21.05
Ukraine62.90 → 83.56+20.66

Fell most

Lebanon44.75 → 20.70−24.05
Namibia80.63 → 71.35−9.29
Tajikistan47.02 → 39.49−7.54
Honduras45.34 → 37.85−7.49
Burkina Faso43.16 → 36.11−7.05

+ Iceland

+ Jamaica

+ Morocco

− Azerbaijan

− Bahrain

− Belarus

− Botswana

− Central African Republic

− DR Congo

− Ethiopia

− Gambia

− Guatemala

− Haiti

− Kuwait

− Libya

− Lesotho

− Luxembourg

− Madagascar

− Maldives

− Mexico

− Montenegro

− Mauritania

− Niger

− Rwanda

− Chad

− Turkmenistan

− Trinidad and Tobago

− Vietnam

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

121 distinct values among 122
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 100.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 122 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (2021). Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/account-ownership/2021

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