Data for 2021
Foundational ID Ownership, 2021
Figures for 2021, as World Bank Group (ID4D) published them · stored as published, never rewritten
Foundational ID Ownership, 2021 covers 113 countries on 3 measures. 2 countries share the highest reading, 100.00000; South Sudan is lowest, at 13.15905. The middle country reads 96.08859. Against 2017, 80 values changed (55 up, 25 down), 33 countries joined, 18 left.
Foundational ID Ownership · Data for 2021
Highest2 countries share it
100.00000LowestSouth Sudan
13.15905Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.
01Values only
The table
Every country and every column of Foundational ID Ownership, 2021, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 113 countries · select a heading to sort
| 100.00000 | 100.000 | 100.000 | |
| 100.00000 | 100.000 | 100.000 | |
| 99.72052 | 99.617 | 99.813 | |
| 99.65489 | 100.000 | 99.316 | |
| 99.62141 | 99.798 | 99.418 | |
| 99.55973 | 99.760 | 99.343 | |
| 99.47777 | 100.000 | 98.978 | |
| 99.30595 | 99.435 | 99.176 | |
| 99.27736 | 98.993 | 99.577 | |
| 99.25687 | 99.628 | 98.875 | |
| 99.24230 | 99.551 | 98.913 | |
| 99.15418 | 99.166 | 99.140 | |
| 99.13853 | 99.909 | 98.343 | |
| 99.11340 | 99.622 | 98.585 | |
| 98.96324 | 98.912 | 99.026 | |
| 98.89574 | 99.765 | 97.970 | |
| 98.85596 | 99.096 | 98.595 | |
| 98.85277 | 99.740 | 97.853 | |
| 98.85276 | 99.155 | 98.522 | |
| 98.84324 | 99.038 | 98.651 | |
| 98.82685 | 98.531 | 99.151 | |
| 98.80638 | 98.896 | 98.711 | |
| 98.79072 | 99.365 | 98.196 | |
| 98.77481 | 99.503 | 97.915 | |
| 98.68346 | 99.419 | 97.816 | |
| 98.64185 | 98.207 | 99.065 | |
| 98.58204 | 98.401 | 98.763 | |
| 98.57757 | 97.307 | 99.440 | |
| 98.52963 | 98.380 | 98.676 | |
| 98.37551 | 98.849 | 97.862 | |
| 98.17099 | 98.628 | 97.695 | |
| 98.14235 | 98.443 | 97.808 | |
| 98.13537 | 97.960 | 98.353 | |
| 97.95781 | 99.092 | 96.641 | |
| 97.94041 | 98.616 | 97.312 | |
| 97.92887 | 98.214 | 97.667 | |
| 97.90093 | 97.291 | 98.504 | |
| 97.84382 | 96.489 | 99.237 | |
| 97.79983 | 98.051 | 97.511 | |
| 97.67209 | 98.163 | 97.188 | |
| 97.61515 | 98.423 | 96.745 | |
| 97.50621 | 97.376 | 97.641 | |
| 97.31536 | 97.696 | 96.940 | |
| 96.99235 | 96.772 | 97.204 | |
| 96.97276 | 97.101 | 96.835 | |
| 96.95794 | 96.633 | 97.420 | |
| 96.95329 | 96.931 | 96.975 | |
| 96.88079 | 97.300 | 96.418 | |
| 96.85674 | 97.709 | 95.949 | |
| 96.82503 | 97.425 | 96.283 | |
| 96.79513 | 97.910 | 95.812 | |
| 96.75622 | 95.993 | 97.560 | |
| 96.71937 | 97.699 | 95.712 | |
| 96.70001 | 97.266 | 96.138 | |
| 96.21447 | 97.581 | 94.927 | |
| 96.17104 | 97.242 | 95.127 | |
| 96.08859 | 95.893 | 96.287 | |
| 95.96347 | 96.181 | 95.747 | |
| 95.85915 | 95.673 | 96.044 | |
| 95.68023 | 95.946 | 95.401 | |
| 95.63313 | 96.363 | 94.827 | |
| 95.42260 | 96.732 | 94.041 | |
| 95.18322 | 94.181 | 96.195 | |
| 95.13932 | 97.008 | 92.987 | |
| 95.07178 | 96.801 | 93.284 | |
| 94.95191 | 95.126 | 94.765 | |
| 94.60026 | 93.999 | 95.238 | |
| 94.20734 | 94.023 | 94.390 | |
| 94.13186 | 94.217 | 94.045 | |
| 93.89540 | 93.600 | 94.238 | |
| 93.84404 | 94.249 | 93.404 | |
| 93.83758 | 92.411 | 95.261 | |
| 93.60091 | 93.119 | 94.120 | |
| 92.76277 | 92.844 | 92.665 | |
| 92.50807 | 94.391 | 90.477 | |
| 92.36148 | 92.113 | 92.634 | |
| 92.31661 | 92.110 | 92.554 | |
| 91.37466 | 88.858 | 93.929 | |
| 91.30297 | 91.793 | 90.749 | |
| 90.96323 | 90.859 | 91.072 | |
| 90.21290 | 87.855 | 92.807 | |
| 89.75342 | 94.092 | 88.152 | |
| 89.62970 | 92.492 | 86.288 | |
| 88.34414 | 77.090 | 98.700 | |
| 87.98173 | 86.244 | 89.964 | |
| 87.79167 | 89.174 | 86.333 | |
| 87.39880 | 76.711 | 98.463 | |
| 87.39290 | 87.263 | 87.539 | |
| 86.74922 | 84.701 | 88.928 | |
| 86.64929 | 89.825 | 83.508 | |
| 86.64257 | 86.913 | 86.352 | |
| 85.62552 | 84.093 | 87.278 | |
| 85.49892 | 86.929 | 83.961 | |
| 85.14453 | 86.798 | 83.265 | |
| 83.14521 | 80.494 | 86.193 | |
| 82.76942 | 79.672 | 86.103 | |
| 82.65477 | 85.421 | 79.957 | |
| 82.46926 | 79.409 | 85.882 | |
| 74.55021 | 72.798 | 76.821 | |
| 72.95549 | 68.979 | 77.406 | |
| 72.50916 | 72.819 | 72.157 | |
| 71.75127 | 67.736 | 75.746 | |
| 69.31462 | 66.276 | 72.536 | |
| 63.17620 | 59.289 | 67.017 | |
| 61.49600 | 64.073 | 58.659 | |
| 60.25102 | 58.754 | 61.889 | |
| 58.62723 | 51.597 | 65.685 | |
| 58.13277 | 51.238 | 65.466 | |
| 55.33438 | 55.318 | 55.352 | |
| 46.95548 | 41.717 | 52.640 | |
| 40.31819 | 36.004 | 44.874 | |
| 30.11952 | 26.869 | 33.493 | |
| 13.15905 | 11.665 | 14.888 |
02In 2021
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Lowest
South Sudan13.15905
Liberia30.11952
Togo40.31819
Benin46.95548
Laos55.33438
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 96.08859. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
Female
Highest4 share it
Lowest
South Sudan11.665
Middle country: 96.633
Male
Highest2 share it
Lowest
South Sudan14.888
Middle country: 95.949
032017 → 2021
Since 2017
What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +33 / −18countries joined / left
- 80values changed, of 80 in both
- 55 · 25rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
Malawi16.03746 → 85.14453+69.10707
Afghanistan71.40159 → 87.39880+15.99721
Laos40.73504 → 55.33438+14.59934
Guinea44.55007 → 58.62723+14.07716
Lithuania81.45496 → 92.36148+10.90651
Fell most
Uganda81.37904 → 72.50916−8.86988
South Sudan21.69451 → 13.15905−8.53546
Costa Rica97.82196 → 94.60026−3.22170
Kenya94.25101 → 91.37466−2.87635
Cameroon85.28723 → 82.76942−2.51781
Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
Read before you use
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
112 distinct values among 113
Values are stored exactly as published, to 12 decimals. 2 countries share 100.00000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Which end is better
A higher value is the better result.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 113 countries has every column.
05The files
Download and cite
The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.
- .csv
For a spreadsheet or code
113 rows · 6.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download id-ownership-2021-nations-inquiry.csv - ↗
The publisher’s original
World Bank Group (ID4D)’s own file, on its own site.
WB_ID4D_WIDEF.csv
What this site changed: 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.
Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
Cite this edition
World Bank Group (ID4D) (2021). Foundational ID Ownership, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/id-ownership/2021
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Foundational ID Ownership, 201798 countries
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Foundational ID Ownership: every year3 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country
07Questions
Foundational ID Ownership, 2021: questions and answers
Which country has the highest ID ownership in Foundational ID Ownership, 2021?
2 countries share the highest reading, 100.00000, so no single country is named.
What year does Foundational ID Ownership, 2021 describe?
2021.
How many countries does Foundational ID Ownership, 2021 cover?
113.
Where can I download Foundational ID Ownership, 2021?
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
Is Foundational ID Ownership, 2021 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Foundational ID Ownership, 2024.