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Data for 2024

Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2024

Figures for 2024, 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, 2024 covers 98 countries on 3 measures. Mongolia is highest, at 94.91; Niger is lowest, at 12.26. The middle country reads 51.65. Against 2021, 79 values changed (55 up, 24 down), 19 countries joined, 44 left.

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Made or Received a Digital Payment · Data for 2024

HighestMongolia

94.91

LowestNiger

12.26

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, 2024, 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 98 countries · select a heading to sort

Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MongoliaMNGEastern Asia94.9196.49593.1443
2KenyaKENEastern Africa89.2885.49793.2433
3ChinaCHNEastern Asia88.7288.89988.5501
4CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe88.4586.87790.1972
5IranIRNSouthern Asia85.9881.63990.3218
6KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia85.0282.09788.2717
7UkraineUKREastern Europe82.8979.13186.8973
8ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia82.7582.67182.8338
9PolandPOLEastern Europe82.0983.18880.8758
10GhanaGHAWestern Africa80.3676.99584.0136
11BulgariaBGREastern Europe77.6078.64476.4411
12MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia77.4774.25680.5682
13BrazilBRASouth America77.3672.83082.3017
14SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe77.0573.96580.4180
15Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia75.7269.57479.1225
16VenezuelaVENSouth America75.5275.12775.9256
17North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe75.1967.29883.4210
18SenegalSENWestern Africa73.4870.54476.7070
19ArgentinaARGSouth America72.2174.56469.5810
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia71.4257.52685.5465
21ZambiaZMBEastern Africa71.1667.65474.9768
22UgandaUGAEastern Africa70.6465.13276.9874
23GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia69.3869.82768.8562
24NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa67.6268.22066.9781
25KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia67.4665.38869.7035

02In 2024

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mongolia94.91
  2. 2Kenya89.28
  3. 3China88.72
  4. 4Croatia88.45
  5. 5Iran85.98

Lowest

  1. 98Niger12.26
  2. 97Algeria13.09
  3. 96Nicaragua16.39
  4. 95Chad18.04
  5. 94Lebanon20.25

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 51.65. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestMongolia96.495

    LowestAlgeria5.968

    Middle country: 45.783

  • Male

    HighestKenya93.2433

    LowestNiger15.1259

    Middle country: 57.1926

032021 → 2024

Since 2021

  • +19 / −44countries joined / left
  • 79values changed, of 79 in both
  • 55 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Azerbaijan+ Belize+ Botswana+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Guatemala+ Libya+ Lesotho+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Montenegro+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Oman+ Eswatini+ Chad+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Austria− Belgium− Canada− Switzerland− Chile− Cyprus− Czechia− Germany− Denmark− Spain− Estonia− Finland− France− United Kingdom− Greece− Hong Kong− Hungary− Ireland− Iceland− Israel− Italy− Jamaica− Japan− South Korea− Lithuania− Latvia− Malta− Myanmar− Netherlands− Norway− New Zealand− Portugal− Russia− Singapore− South Sudan− Slovakia− Slovenia− Sweden− Taiwan− Uruguay− United States

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 98 countries has every column.

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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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2024). Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/digital-payments/2024

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