Data for 2024
Foundational ID Ownership, 2024
Figures for 2024, as World Bank Group (ID4D) published them · stored as published, never rewritten
Foundational ID Ownership, 2024 covers 120 countries on 3 measures. 4 countries share the highest reading, 100.000; Sierra Leone is lowest, at 42.620. The middle country reads 94.396. Against 2021, 92 values changed (60 up, 32 down), 28 countries joined, 21 left.
Foundational ID Ownership · Data for 2024
Highest4 countries share it
100.000LowestSierra Leone
42.620Shaded 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, 2024, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 120 countries · select a heading to sort
| 100.000 | 100.0000 | 100.000 | |
| 100.000 | 100.0000 | 100.000 | |
| 100.000 | 100.0000 | 100.000 | |
| 100.000 | 100.0000 | 100.000 | |
| 99.952 | 100.0000 | 99.904 | |
| 99.902 | 100.0000 | 99.782 | |
| 99.875 | 99.7569 | 100.000 | |
| 99.718 | 100.0000 | 99.446 | |
| 99.669 | 99.5908 | 99.747 | |
| 99.663 | 99.4510 | 99.780 | |
| 99.591 | 99.5914 | 99.591 | |
| 99.567 | 99.8870 | 99.240 | |
| 99.525 | 99.0384 | 100.000 | |
| 99.325 | 99.6989 | 98.934 | |
| 99.297 | 99.8399 | 98.689 | |
| 99.243 | 99.8183 | 98.662 | |
| 99.217 | 99.6032 | 98.792 | |
| 99.187 | 98.8008 | 99.567 | |
| 99.015 | 99.6137 | 98.446 | |
| 98.790 | 99.7892 | 97.733 | |
| 98.778 | 98.8263 | 98.731 | |
| 98.729 | 98.0950 | 99.382 | |
| 98.608 | 98.9943 | 98.181 | |
| 98.551 | 99.2383 | 97.703 | |
| 98.510 | 98.2977 | 98.740 | |
| 98.459 | 99.2721 | 97.583 | |
| 98.411 | 99.3002 | 97.947 | |
| 98.384 | 97.9042 | 98.900 | |
| 98.357 | 98.2157 | 98.503 | |
| 98.356 | 99.1758 | 97.485 | |
| 98.347 | 98.6604 | 98.032 | |
| 98.343 | 98.1997 | 98.539 | |
| 98.238 | 98.4660 | 97.996 | |
| 98.223 | 98.7471 | 97.646 | |
| 98.012 | 97.8328 | 98.195 | |
| 97.958 | 97.9950 | 97.919 | |
| 97.889 | 97.9389 | 97.833 | |
| 97.835 | 98.1865 | 97.461 | |
| 97.777 | 98.1607 | 97.380 | |
| 97.720 | 98.7310 | 96.595 | |
| 97.595 | 97.4975 | 97.702 | |
| 97.389 | 97.5562 | 97.218 | |
| 97.238 | 98.1701 | 96.303 | |
| 97.200 | 98.2743 | 96.076 | |
| 97.048 | 96.9040 | 97.199 | |
| 96.776 | 95.3588 | 98.102 | |
| 96.697 | 97.3322 | 96.026 | |
| 96.223 | 96.0991 | 96.360 | |
| 96.195 | 96.6923 | 95.674 | |
| 95.942 | 95.3202 | 96.616 | |
| 95.922 | 94.5127 | 97.466 | |
| 95.859 | 94.9221 | 96.862 | |
| 95.790 | 95.1100 | 96.510 | |
| 95.392 | 95.3700 | 95.421 | |
| 95.336 | 95.8327 | 94.821 | |
| 95.272 | 94.6193 | 95.967 | |
| 94.867 | 95.2173 | 94.529 | |
| 94.806 | 96.3822 | 92.900 | |
| 94.729 | 95.9591 | 94.067 | |
| 94.403 | 93.9635 | 94.836 | |
| 94.390 | 95.7068 | 93.000 | |
| 94.382 | 95.0948 | 93.630 | |
| 94.346 | 95.4794 | 93.002 | |
| 94.344 | 93.1342 | 95.624 | |
| 94.326 | 93.1154 | 95.683 | |
| 93.931 | 93.8987 | 93.966 | |
| 93.638 | 94.6298 | 92.586 | |
| 93.383 | 94.9599 | 91.724 | |
| 93.323 | 89.2926 | 97.033 | |
| 93.226 | 92.9901 | 93.472 | |
| 93.075 | 92.4339 | 93.719 | |
| 92.821 | 93.4711 | 92.083 | |
| 92.738 | 93.8617 | 91.490 | |
| 92.718 | 94.5616 | 90.826 | |
| 92.581 | 93.1497 | 91.980 | |
| 92.359 | 93.1796 | 91.512 | |
| 91.974 | 93.6431 | 90.308 | |
| 91.704 | 92.3644 | 91.389 | |
| 91.697 | 93.0784 | 90.075 | |
| 91.242 | 91.9160 | 90.465 | |
| 90.809 | 89.5443 | 92.253 | |
| 90.625 | 92.1618 | 89.027 | |
| 90.598 | 85.5808 | 96.234 | |
| 90.216 | 88.5537 | 92.084 | |
| 90.191 | 87.7468 | 92.911 | |
| 89.820 | 89.2989 | 90.405 | |
| 89.797 | 88.3403 | 91.257 | |
| 89.318 | 90.4587 | 88.025 | |
| 89.291 | 86.9745 | 91.674 | |
| 89.196 | 88.8614 | 89.563 | |
| 88.735 | 89.2856 | 88.175 | |
| 88.476 | 87.0747 | 89.964 | |
| 88.385 | 90.7274 | 85.851 | |
| 87.925 | 87.2991 | 88.603 | |
| 87.775 | 89.8261 | 85.360 | |
| 87.740 | 88.6300 | 86.871 | |
| 86.686 | 87.8277 | 85.301 | |
| 86.453 | 87.1225 | 85.737 | |
| 86.377 | 87.0883 | 85.713 | |
| 86.150 | 88.6242 | 83.596 | |
| 85.399 | 86.1679 | 84.379 | |
| 85.370 | 87.4965 | 83.031 | |
| 85.307 | 84.1016 | 86.508 | |
| 79.896 | 77.8870 | 81.996 | |
| 79.080 | 76.4209 | 81.739 | |
| 78.406 | 74.4725 | 82.220 | |
| 78.315 | 80.6277 | 76.129 | |
| 77.522 | 76.8810 | 78.185 | |
| 73.867 | 77.7088 | 69.903 | |
| 72.359 | 71.3024 | 73.569 | |
| 66.945 | 66.6232 | 67.315 | |
| 61.971 | 56.5061 | 67.654 | |
| 61.824 | 60.3976 | 63.483 | |
| 61.228 | 56.6256 | 65.867 | |
| 58.322 | 53.5620 | 63.204 | |
| 55.725 | 53.4929 | 57.976 | |
| 53.129 | 43.3957 | 63.468 | |
| 47.526 | 49.1431 | 45.907 | |
| 47.331 | 42.3442 | 52.321 | |
| 42.620 | 44.2659 | 40.869 |
02In 2024
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Highest
Azerbaijanshared100.000
Icelandshared100.000
Norwayshared100.000
Ukraineshared100.000
Türkiye99.952
Lowest
Sierra Leone42.620
Guinea47.331
Laos47.526
Niger53.129
Republic of the Congo55.725
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 94.396. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
Female
Highest7 share it
Lowest
Guinea42.3442
Middle country: 94.9410
Male
Highest6 share it
Lowest
Sierra Leone40.869
Middle country: 94.828
032021 → 2024
Since 2021
What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +28 / −21countries joined / left
- 92values changed, of 92 in both
- 60 · 32rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
Togo40.318 → 61.971+21.652
Mali69.315 → 77.522+8.208
Burkina Faso83.145 → 90.216+7.071
Senegal82.469 → 89.196+6.726
Côte d’Ivoire71.751 → 78.406+6.655
Fell most
Sierra Leone61.496 → 42.620−18.876
Guinea58.627 → 47.331−11.296
Jordan96.795 → 86.150−10.645
Laos55.334 → 47.526−7.809
Republic of the Congo63.176 → 55.725−7.451
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.
117 distinct values among 120
Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 4 countries share 100.000. 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 120 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
120 rows · 8.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download id-ownership-2024-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) (2024). Foundational ID Ownership, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/id-ownership/2024
063 held
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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, 2024: questions and answers
Which country has the highest ID ownership in Foundational ID Ownership, 2024?
4 countries share the highest reading, 100.000, so no single country is named.
What year does Foundational ID Ownership, 2024 describe?
2024.
How many countries does Foundational ID Ownership, 2024 cover?
120.
Where can I download Foundational ID Ownership, 2024?
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, 2024 the newest?
Yes, as of 2026-10-03, when it was read from the publisher.