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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2011

Figures for 2011, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of adults who put money aside in a bank, a similar financial institution or a mobile money account in the past year, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. Saving formally keeps money safer than cash at home and is one of the ways an account starts to matter in someone's life.

Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2011 covers 144 countries on 3 measures. Sweden is highest, at 63.584; Turkmenistan is lowest, at 0.117. The middle country reads 13.445.

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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money · Data for 2011

HighestSweden

63.584

LowestTurkmenistan

0.117

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2011, 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 144 countries · select a heading to sort

Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2011: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwedenSWENorthern Europe63.58464.02563.133
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand61.92558.96865.241
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand60.44058.13362.987
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia58.41058.71958.090
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe57.81454.47261.843
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe56.51054.84158.349
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe56.13857.22954.879
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe55.90054.85056.999
9CanadaCANNorthern America53.20352.94853.476
10LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe52.00948.51155.978
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe51.59450.48652.994
12JapanJPNEastern Asia51.32653.72948.766
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe51.25852.63749.744
14United StatesUSANorthern America50.39847.63653.256
15FranceFRAWestern Europe49.51845.70054.209
16South KoreaKOREastern Asia46.94247.71446.127
17TaiwanTWNEastern Asia45.71747.74243.620
18MaltaMLTSouthern Europe44.81439.27150.812
19Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean44.41041.27247.546
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe43.79941.45046.375
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia42.80342.82542.777
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia42.77439.98945.867
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe42.57538.55147.203
24KuwaitKWTWestern Asia40.34538.04842.246
25SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe36.84335.43138.434

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sweden63.584
  2. 2Australia61.925
  3. 3New Zealand60.440
  4. 4Singapore58.410
  5. 5Netherlands57.814

Lowest

  1. 144Turkmenistan0.117
  2. 143Tajikistan0.287
  3. 142Egypt0.693
  4. 141Cambodia0.809
  5. 140Armenia0.819

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.445. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 120 empty cells

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

04The files

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World Bank Group (2011). Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/formal-saving/2011

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