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Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days

2 years, 2021–2024 · 98 countries · 3 measures

This is the share of adults who say they could find money for an emergency within a month without great difficulty, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. It asks about a household's cushion against a shock — a job lost, an illness, a failed harvest — rather than about its bank account.

This site holds every year from 2021 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days, 2024
Held
2 years · 221 rows
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CC BY 4.0

012 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2021bar height: countries covered, up to 1232024
Every year of Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days, 2024Newest98+19 −44September 29, 2026CSV
Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days, 2021123—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: emergency-funds-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

02Before you compare

Using the series

Roughly a thousand interviews per economy

Findex fieldwork is part of the Gallup World Poll, and each economy's sample is about 1,000 people, randomly selected and nationally representative. Responses are weighted to the population by sex and age, and by education or socioeconomic status where reliable figures exist. Each value is therefore a sample estimate with its own margin of error, which differs from economy to economy, and each Findex report lists those margins economy by economy. A gap of a few points between two economies, or between two waves, may lie within them.

Same design in both waves

Both waves used the same question design. Adults imagine an emergency costing one-twentieth of their economy's gross national income per head, in local currency, so the sum differs from one economy to another. Those who name a way to find it within 30 days are then asked whether that would be very, somewhat or not at all difficult. The 2017 wave asked only whether the sum could be found within the next month, possible or not, so its figures are not an earlier point on this line.

Phone or face to face, by economy

Gallup interviews face to face where telephone coverage is below 80% of the population or where in-person surveys are customary, and by phone in most high-income economies. An economy's interview mode can change from one wave to the next, and the edition notes record the changes that touch the waves held here. Findex waves have come every three or four years since 2011.

035 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—980
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—980
Adults who could raise emergency funds within 30 days without great difficulty (%)emergency_fundsHeadlineThe headline figure: Adults who could raise emergency funds within 30 days without great difficulty (% of population aged 15+).Number · up to 15 decimals24.034Eswatini83.719Chinamiddle 53.853980
FemalefemaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 15 decimals18.193Pakistan86.025Libyamiddle 47.989980
MalemaleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 15 decimals27.58Eswatini83.69Ukrainemiddle 58.75980

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

04142 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days, by continent.
20212024
Africa2940
Americas1917
Asia3629
Europe3712
Oceania20
All12398

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + 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

Not in this dataset · 83 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelarusBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurundiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiIsle of ManKiribatiKuwaitLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSudanSurinameSyriaTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityYemen

05Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

    worldbank.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days 2024

    WB_FINDEX_WIDEF.csv

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    2 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as emergency-funds-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/emergency-fundsA key for Risk & Resilience in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From World Bank Data360 (Global Findex, WB_FINDEX_FIN24ASD_ND), the Bank's own figures for adults aged 15 and over. Economies surveyed in 2022, whose fieldwork for the 2021 wave ran late, are left out, as they are on this site's account-ownership page.

06Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
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  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days, 2021–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/emergency-funds

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. The Global Findex Database. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.