Dataset · World Bank Group (ID4D)
Foundational ID Ownership
3 years, 2017–2024 · 120 countries · 3 measures
This is the share of adults who say they own a foundational ID — a national identity card or similar document that proves who they are — from the World Bank's ID4D programme, asked in the Global Findex survey. An ID is often what a person needs to open a bank account, register a SIM card, receive benefits or vote, and the Sustainable Development Goals call for legal identity for all.
This site holds every year from 2017 to 2024, read from World Bank Group (ID4D)’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Foundational ID Ownership · the file
- Newest
- Foundational ID Ownership, 2024
- Held
- 3 years · 331 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
013 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundational ID Ownership, 2024Newest | 120 | +28 −21 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Foundational ID Ownership, 2021 | 113 | +33 −18 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Foundational ID Ownership, 2017 | 98 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: id-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 120 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 120 | 0 | |
Adults who own a foundational ID (%)id_ownershipHeadline | The headline figure: Adults who own a foundational ID (% of population aged 15+). | Number · up to 13 decimals | 42.620 Sierra Leone100.0004 share itmiddle 94.396 | 117 | 0 | |
FemalefemaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 13 decimals | 42.3442 Guinea100.00007 share itmiddle 94.9410 | 114 | 0 | |
MalemaleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 13 decimals | 40.869Sierra Leone100.0006 share itmiddle 94.828 | 115 | 0 |
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.
03148 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.
| 2017 | 2021 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 31 | 28 | 37 |
| Americas | 20 | 18 | 19 |
| Asia | 26 | 34 | 33 |
| Europe | 21 | 33 | 30 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All | 98 | 113 | 120 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Austria
+ Azerbaijan
+ Bahrain
+ Botswana
+ DR Congo
+ Comoros
+ Ethiopia
+ Finland
+ United Kingdom
+ Gambia
+ Guatemala
+ India
+ Ireland
+ Japan
+ Kuwait
+ Libya
+ Lesotho
+ Madagascar
+ Mexico
+ Montenegro
+ Mauritania
+ Niger
+ Nigeria
+ New Zealand
+ Oman
+ Philippines
+ Eswatini
+ United States
− Afghanistan
− United Arab Emirates
− Armenia
− Benin
− Bulgaria
− Estonia
− Croatia
− Jamaica
− Kazakhstan
− Liberia
− Moldova
− Malta
− Myanmar
− Palestine
− Romania
− Singapore
− South Sudan
− Slovakia
− Taiwan
− Uruguay
− Kosovo - 2021+ United Arab Emirates+ Armenia
+ Belgium
+ Canada
+ Switzerland
+ Cyprus
+ Germany
+ Denmark
+ Spain
+ France
+ Ghana
+ Hong Kong
+ Iran
+ Iraq
+ Iceland
+ Italy+ Jamaica
+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Malta
+ Mauritius
+ Netherlands
+ Norway
+ Nepal
+ Portugal+ Palestine
+ Saudi Arabia+ Sierra Leone
+ Slovenia
+ Sweden
+ Tajikistan+ Taiwan
+ Tanzania− Azerbaijan
− Belarus− Botswana− Ethiopia− Guatemala
− Haiti− India− Lesotho− Madagascar− Mexico− Montenegro− Mauritania− Niger
− Rwanda
− Chad
− Turkmenistan
− Trinidad and Tobago
− Yemen
Not in this dataset · 77 places this site covers
World Bank Group (ID4D) 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 Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Bhutan
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African RepublicChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macau
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Seychelles
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group (ID4D)
2 · Their file
Foundational ID Ownership 2024
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
3 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as id-ownership-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 13 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 (ID4D Global Dataset), one file per survey wave. Female and male shares are the Bank's own.
05Reuse
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.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- 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 (ID4D), Foundational ID Ownership, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group (ID4D). Foundational ID Ownership, 2017–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/id-ownership
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Identification for Development (ID4D) Global Dataset. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Foundational ID Ownership by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Foundational ID Ownership: questions and answers
What is the Foundational ID Ownership?
This is the share of adults who say they own a foundational ID — a national identity card or similar document that proves who they are — from the World Bank's ID4D programme, asked in the Global Findex survey. An ID is often what a person needs to open a bank account, register a SIM card, receive benefits or vote, and the Sustainable Development Goals call for legal identity for all.
Which years of the Foundational ID Ownership can I download?
All 3, from 2017 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group (ID4D) rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group (ID4D). The licence text is linked on this page.