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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2021

Figures for 2021, 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, 2021 covers 123 countries on 3 measures. Norway is highest, at 80.93; Afghanistan is lowest, at 1.34. The middle country reads 21.85. Against 2017, 120 values changed (84 up, 36 down), 3 countries joined, 25 left.

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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money · Data for 2021

HighestNorway

80.93

LowestAfghanistan

1.34

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, 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.

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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NorwayNORNorthern Europe80.9383.8778.12
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe79.7478.8780.57
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe75.8473.4978.16
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand69.2668.0670.53
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand69.1769.9268.37
6TaiwanTWNEastern Asia67.7767.9767.57
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe67.2968.9565.67
8AustriaAUTWestern Europe66.6769.9563.20
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe65.7362.2069.38
10United StatesUSANorthern America64.9463.0066.91
11CanadaCANNorthern America63.9160.2567.69
12JapanJPNEastern Asia63.8363.0664.64
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe63.4662.4164.55
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe62.0462.9761.08
15EstoniaESTNorthern Europe61.7862.7160.69
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe60.9861.3860.56
17SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia60.4759.5461.47
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe59.7756.3763.30
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia59.4856.7762.76
20South KoreaKOREastern Asia59.4761.5757.55
21IsraelISRWestern Asia59.3558.1060.65
22SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe58.8556.4961.40
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe57.1455.1159.28
24BelgiumBELWestern Europe56.9553.1160.94
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe56.2355.7156.79

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. 1Norway80.93
  2. 2Sweden79.74
  3. 3Iceland75.84
  4. 4New Zealand69.26
  5. 5Australia69.17

Lowest

  1. 123Afghanistan1.34
  2. 122South Sudan1.72
  3. 121Tajikistan1.84
  4. 120Iraq2.16
  5. 119Lebanon2.59

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 21.85. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032017 → 2021

Since 2017

  • +3 / −25countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 84 · 36rose · 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
  • 44 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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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2021). Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/formal-saving/2021

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