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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2017

Figures for 2017, 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, 2017 covers 145 countries on 3 measures. Norway is highest, at 79.3274; Iraq is lowest, at 1.6248. The middle country reads 16.1907. Against 2014, 133 values changed (78 up, 55 down), 12 countries joined, 9 left.

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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money · Data for 2017

HighestNorway

79.3274

LowestIraq

1.6248

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, 2017, 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 145 countries · select a heading to sort

Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NorwayNORNorthern Europe79.327477.554781.084
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe75.434374.003476.883
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand69.404471.102567.474
4CanadaCANNorthern America67.616464.453370.997
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia66.903166.519867.318
6TaiwanTWNEastern Asia66.874168.340465.336
7JapanJPNEastern Asia64.460963.059266.139
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe63.675158.961868.628
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe63.105262.587763.634
10United StatesUSANorthern America62.196761.869362.533
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand62.124062.317161.924
12LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe61.575262.535560.633
13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe59.506455.170964.053
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe59.346456.682462.063
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe55.796352.547459.299
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe55.636953.947957.419
17GermanyDEUWestern Europe55.376552.240758.739
18South KoreaKOREastern Asia55.306059.530251.052
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe54.540654.041555.078
20IsraelISRWestern Asia53.444553.777753.098
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia50.918643.892559.502
22SpainESPSouthern Europe50.825044.368057.315
23SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe49.865644.724155.453
24FranceFRAWestern Europe48.077946.893249.375
25IrelandIRLNorthern Europe47.513646.527448.545

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Norway79.3274
  2. 2Sweden75.4343
  3. 3New Zealand69.4044
  4. 4Canada67.6164
  5. 5Singapore66.9031

Lowest

  1. 145Iraq1.6248
  2. 144Niger1.9035
  3. 143Uzbekistan2.3039
  4. 142Chad2.5303
  5. 141Kyrgyzstan2.9877

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16.1907. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032014 → 2017

Since 2014

  • +12 / −9countries joined / left
  • 133values changed, of 133 in both
  • 78 · 55rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Central African Republic+ Gambia+ Laos+ Liberia+ Libya+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Mozambique+ Paraguay+ South Sudan+ Turkmenistan+ Trinidad and Tobago− Angola− Burundi− Belize− Bhutan− Jamaica− Puerto Rico− Sudan− Somalia− Yemen

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 84 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 (2017). Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/formal-saving/2017

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