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Female financial account ownership

Compare female financial account ownership across 138 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators138 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
67.4% of women ages 15+
Median: 71.4% of women ages 15+
Countries Covered
138
with available data
Highest
France
99.8% of women ages 15+
Lowest
Pakistan
11.9% of women ages 15+
Top 5 Countries
1France99.8% of women ages 15+
2Estonia99.8% of women ages 15+
3Iceland99.7% of women ages 15+
4Finland99.7% of women ages 15+
5United Kingdom99.3% of women ages 15+
By Region
Key Findings
  • Coverage: 138 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2024.
  • Published range: 11.9121696598431 to 99.848494933374 % of women ages 15+.
  • Discovery motivation: Wikimedia most-read surfaced Gloria Steinem, motivating a gender-focused comparison of financial inclusion.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (11.9% of women ages 15+)High (99.8% of women ages 15+)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 67.4% of women ages 15+)

About This Statistic

Account denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution or report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months (female, % age 15+).

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

Account denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution or report personally using a mobile money service in the past 12 months (female, % age 15+).

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1France99.8% of women ages 15+
2Estonia99.8% of women ages 15+
3Iceland99.7% of women ages 15+
4Finland99.7% of women ages 15+
5United Kingdom99.3% of women ages 15+
6Netherlands99.3% of women ages 15+
7Austria99.2% of women ages 15+
8Mongolia99.0% of women ages 15+
9Slovenia98.9% of women ages 15+
10Germany98.9% of women ages 15+
11Canada98.8% of women ages 15+
12Japan98.7% of women ages 15+
13New Zealand98.5% of women ages 15+
14Lithuania98.4% of women ages 15+
15Denmark98.1% of women ages 15+
16Cyprus98.0% of women ages 15+
17Belgium97.9% of women ages 15+
18Norway97.8% of women ages 15+
19Spain97.8% of women ages 15+
20Australia97.7% of women ages 15+
21Switzerland97.6% of women ages 15+
22Singapore97.6% of women ages 15+
23Sweden97.6% of women ages 15+
24South Korea97.1% of women ages 15+
25United States of America97.1% of women ages 15+
26Ireland96.9% of women ages 15+
27Hong Kong96.8% of women ages 15+
28Malta96.1% of women ages 15+
29Latvia95.4% of women ages 15+
30Thailand92.7% of women ages 15+
31Croatia92.1% of women ages 15+
32Slovakia91.1% of women ages 15+
33Czech Republic89.7% of women ages 15+
34India89.2% of women ages 15+
35People's Republic of China89.2% of women ages 15+
36Malaysia88.2% of women ages 15+
37Portugal88.2% of women ages 15+
38Israel88.1% of women ages 15+
39Venezuela87.7% of women ages 15+
40Mauritius87.4% of women ages 15+
41Islamic Republic of Iran86.8% of women ages 15+
42Kenya86.5% of women ages 15+
43Poland86.3% of women ages 15+
44Kazakhstan85.7% of women ages 15+
45Bulgaria85.0% of women ages 15+
46Argentina84.2% of women ages 15+
47Greece84.1% of women ages 15+
48Ukraine83.9% of women ages 15+
49Hungary83.7% of women ages 15+
50Chile83.2% of women ages 15+
51Bahrain83.0% of women ages 15+
52Brazil82.3% of women ages 15+
53Georgia81.3% of women ages 15+
54Serbia81.1% of women ages 15+
55South Africa81.0% of women ages 15+
56Sri Lanka80.2% of women ages 15+
57Italy79.8% of women ages 15+
58Ghana78.3% of women ages 15+
59Russian Federation77.3% of women ages 15+
60The Republic of North Macedonia77.2% of women ages 15+
61Bosnia and Herzegovina75.7% of women ages 15+
62Namibia75.0% of women ages 15+
63Senegal73.6% of women ages 15+
64Saudi Arabia73.5% of women ages 15+
65Montenegro73.4% of women ages 15+
66Trinidad and Tobago73.3% of women ages 15+
67Uruguay73.3% of women ages 15+
68Türkiye71.7% of women ages 15+
69Kuwait71.5% of women ages 15+
70Kyrgyzstan71.2% of women ages 15+
71Zambia70.2% of women ages 15+
72Vietnam69.9% of women ages 15+
73Romania69.9% of women ages 15+
74Costa Rica68.3% of women ages 15+
75Armenia68.0% of women ages 15+
76Oman67.1% of women ages 15+
77Uganda66.4% of women ages 15+
78Eswatini65.4% of women ages 15+
79Belize65.2% of women ages 15+
80Gabon63.7% of women ages 15+
81Ecuador63.5% of women ages 15+
82Dominican Republic61.4% of women ages 15+
83Uzbekistan60.7% of women ages 15+
84Lesotho60.4% of women ages 15+
85Paraguay60.1% of women ages 15+
86Nepal59.8% of women ages 15+
87Botswana59.7% of women ages 15+
88Panama58.1% of women ages 15+
89Indonesia58.0% of women ages 15+
90Philippines57.1% of women ages 15+
91Peru56.2% of women ages 15+
92United Republic of Tanzania54.9% of women ages 15+
93Moldova, Republic of54.5% of women ages 15+
94Cote d'Ivoire53.8% of women ages 15+
95Bolivia53.5% of women ages 15+
96Cameroon52.9% of women ages 15+
97Nigeria52.2% of women ages 15+
98Colombia51.0% of women ages 15+
99Republic of the Congo50.6% of women ages 15+
100Benin49.1% of women ages 15+
101Mexico47.4% of women ages 15+
102Zimbabwe47.0% of women ages 15+
103Tajikistan46.9% of women ages 15+
104Malawi46.3% of women ages 15+
105Liberia46.3% of women ages 15+
106Azerbaijan46.2% of women ages 15+
107Mali45.6% of women ages 15+
108Mozambique45.5% of women ages 15+
109Togo45.3% of women ages 15+
110Burkina Faso44.0% of women ages 15+
111Lao People's Democratic Republic43.6% of women ages 15+
112Comoros41.8% of women ages 15+
113Ethiopia41.6% of women ages 15+
114Albania41.2% of women ages 15+
115Egypt40.2% of women ages 15+
116Cambodia36.8% of women ages 15+
117Jordan36.2% of women ages 15+
118Sierra Leone35.9% of women ages 15+
119Republic of The Gambia34.9% of women ages 15+
120Morocco34.7% of women ages 15+
121El Salvador34.4% of women ages 15+
122Honduras34.1% of women ages 15+
123Democratic Republic of the Congo33.5% of women ages 15+
124Bangladesh33.3% of women ages 15+
125Guatemala32.5% of women ages 15+
126Guinea31.2% of women ages 15+
127State of Palestine27.7% of women ages 15+
128Tunisia26.6% of women ages 15+
129Libya24.7% of women ages 15+
130Mauritania24.7% of women ages 15+
131Nicaragua21.2% of women ages 15+
132Madagascar20.3% of women ages 15+
133Chad20.1% of women ages 15+
134Iraq18.8% of women ages 15+
135Algeria18.1% of women ages 15+
136Lebanon15.3% of women ages 15+
137Niger12.2% of women ages 15+
138Pakistan11.9% of women ages 15+
Showing 138 of 138 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2024).

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