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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2024

Figures for 2024, 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, 2024 covers 98 countries on 3 measures. Ghana is highest, at 67.198; Lebanon is lowest, at 3.159. The middle country reads 25.417. Against 2021, 79 values changed (73 up, 6 down), 19 countries joined, 44 left.

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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money · Data for 2024

HighestGhana

67.198

LowestLebanon

3.159

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, 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.

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Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GhanaGHAWestern Africa67.19860.932473.98
2ChinaCHNEastern Asia66.52165.879667.13
3SenegalSENWestern Africa58.29955.558061.31
4KenyaKENEastern Africa54.42349.144559.94
5UgandaUGAEastern Africa53.64542.365866.64
6ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia53.57747.212360.17
7MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia52.49851.394453.56
8ZambiaZMBEastern Africa50.12244.187356.59
9BulgariaBGREastern Europe47.70448.064547.30
10PolandPOLEastern Europe45.82444.816646.93
11CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe45.77042.086149.85
12VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia44.50646.504742.41
13NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa43.55343.563643.54
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa43.35036.499450.20
15Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia41.72134.561745.68
16BotswanaBWASouthern Africa40.11737.694443.04
17GabonGABMiddle Africa39.06135.859042.10
18BrazilBRASouth America38.62930.631647.34
19KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia37.72333.659742.24
20MongoliaMNGEastern Asia36.29238.213934.16
21South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa35.80433.973237.90
22ArgentinaARGSouth America35.80233.287338.62
23Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa35.64530.101841.02
24Costa RicaCRICentral America34.94630.686839.34
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa34.53034.049035.10

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. 1Ghana67.198
  2. 2China66.521
  3. 3Senegal58.299
  4. 4Kenya54.423
  5. 5Uganda53.645

Lowest

  1. 98Lebanon3.159
  2. 97Niger5.231
  3. 96Morocco6.093
  4. 95Moldova7.073
  5. 94Uzbekistan9.193

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 25.417. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestChina65.8796

    LowestPakistan3.3293

    Middle country: 21.5753

  • Male

    HighestGhana73.98

    LowestArmenia11.39

    Middle country: 30.59

032021 → 2024

Since 2021

  • +19 / −44countries joined / left
  • 79values changed, of 79 in both
  • 73 · 6rose · 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
  • 14 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 (2024). Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/formal-saving/2024

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