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Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021

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

This is the share of adults who made or received at least one digital payment in the past year — paying by card, phone or mobile money, paying bills online, or having wages or benefits paid into an account. The World Bank's Global Findex survey treats it as the step from owning an account to actually using one.

Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 covers 123 countries on 3 measures. Denmark is highest, at 100.000; South Sudan is lowest, at 4.811. The middle country reads 65.567. Against 2017, 120 values changed (103 up, 17 down), 3 countries joined, 25 left.

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Made or Received a Digital Payment · Data for 2021

HighestDenmark

100.000

LowestSouth Sudan

4.811

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Made or Received a Digital Payment, 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.

Showing 25 of 123 countries · select a heading to sort

Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe100.000100.00100.00
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe99.874100.0099.75
3GermanyDEUWestern Europe99.48199.2999.68
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.478100.0098.98
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe99.30098.9399.69
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.16999.2899.05
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe99.06098.7299.39
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand98.95099.8797.96
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe98.78598.8098.77
10EstoniaESTNorthern Europe98.65199.4097.78
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe98.47498.5198.44
12FranceFRAWestern Europe98.44899.1297.72
13CanadaCANNorthern America98.34898.3698.34
14SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe98.21798.0398.41
15IrelandIRLNorthern Europe98.21698.4797.95
16South KoreaKOREastern Asia97.93997.7398.13
17New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand97.59998.8396.30
18SpainESPSouthern Europe97.53096.1698.90
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe97.41597.2697.58
20MongoliaMNGEastern Asia97.40998.5996.10
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe97.01895.3198.83
22JapanJPNEastern Asia95.79195.6695.93
23ItalyITASouthern Europe95.77595.1596.36
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe95.34795.8494.76
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia94.83893.0496.76

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Denmark100.000
  2. 2Iceland99.874
  3. 3Germany99.481
  4. 4Norway99.478
  5. 5Austria99.300

Lowest

  1. 123South Sudan4.811
  2. 122Afghanistan7.882
  3. 121Lebanon14.015
  4. 120Iraq14.236
  5. 119Pakistan17.623

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 65.567. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    Highest3 share it

    LowestLebanon11.19

    Middle country: 62.73

  • Male

    HighestDenmark100.00

    LowestLebanon16.73

    Middle country: 70.56

032017 → 2021

Since 2017

  • +3 / −25countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 103 · 17rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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.

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • 4 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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World Bank Group (2021). Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/digital-payments/2021

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