Financial account ownership

percent of women, 2011–2017

Country	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Afghanistan	2.62	3.02	3.41	3.81	4.93	6.04	7.16
Albania	22.67	26.31	29.95	33.59	35.10	36.60	38.10
Algeria	20.41	26.96	33.52	40.07	36.47	32.87	29.27
Angola	38.93	33.40	27.86	22.33
Argentina	31.82	38.16	44.51	50.85	50.82	50.79	50.76
Armenia	18.15	17.01	15.88	14.74	23.47	32.19	40.91
Australia	98.59	98.74	98.89	99.04	99.09	99.14	99.20
Austria	96.56	96.83	97.10	97.37	97.71	98.04	98.38
Azerbaijan	14.26	18.14	22.02	25.90	26.50	27.11	27.72
Bahrain	48.78	54.77	60.75	66.74	69.63	72.52	75.41
Bangladesh	26.01	26.16	26.31	26.45	29.58	32.71	35.84
Belarus	58.07	62.70	67.33	71.96	75.09	78.21	81.34
Belgium	97.18	97.96	98.73	99.51	99.28	99.05	98.82
Belize				52.28
Benin	9.81	11.07	12.33	13.60	18.59	23.59	28.59
Bhutan				27.68
Bolivia	25.11	29.42	33.73	38.04	43.31	48.58	53.85
Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.72	47.50	47.28	47.06	49.62	52.18	54.74
Botswana	28.36	35.15	41.94	48.74	48.09	47.44	46.79
Brazil	51.02	55.60	60.19	64.77	65.69	66.60	67.51
Bulgaria	55.45	58.02	60.59	63.16	66.65	70.14	73.64
Burkina Faso	10.81	11.43	12.04	12.65	19.93	27.22	34.50
Burma (Myanmar)				17.40	20.26	23.12	25.98
Burundi	5.93	6.19	6.46	6.73
Cambodia	3.71	9.31	14.90	20.50	20.84	21.18	21.53
Cameroon	10.88	10.65	10.41	10.18	16.80	23.41	30.03
Canada	97.23	97.89	98.54	99.20	99.42	99.63	99.85
Central African Republic	3.41	4.46	5.51	6.56	7.62	8.67	9.72
Chad	6.77	7.12	7.47	7.83	10.17	12.51	14.85
Chile	40.97	47.04	53.10	59.16	63.20	67.24	71.27
China	60.01	65.42	70.84	76.25	76.29	76.33	76.36
Colombia	25.35	28.22	31.09	33.95	36.79	39.63	42.47
Comoros	17.89
Congo (Brazzaville)	7.56	10.03	12.49	14.96	16.97	18.98	20.99
Congo (Kinshasa)	2.75	6.61	10.47	14.32	17.62	20.92	24.22
Costa Rica	40.66	47.19	53.71	60.24	60.45	60.67	60.88
Croatia	87.18	87.35	87.52	87.69	86.03	84.36	82.70
Cyprus	83.07	85.48	87.88	90.29	90.20	90.11	90.01
Czech Republic	80.51	80.13	79.75	79.37	79.11	78.85	78.58
Denmark	99.50	99.67	99.83	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Djibouti	8.76
Dominican Republic	37.38	43.57	49.76	55.95	55.35	54.75	54.14
Ecuador	33.16	35.71	38.27	40.82	41.42	42.01	42.61
Egypt	6.52	7.45	8.38	9.31	15.20	21.10	26.99
El Salvador	10.13	17.39	24.65	31.91	29.40	26.89	24.38
Estonia	97.26	97.33	97.40	97.47	97.77	98.07	98.38
Ethiopia				21.00	23.69	26.39	29.08
Finland	99.82	99.88	99.94	100.00	99.86	99.72	99.59
France	96.57	96.20	95.84	95.47	94.07	92.68	91.29
Gabon	17.17	21.69	26.22	30.74	38.39	46.05	53.70
Georgia	34.92	36.54	38.15	39.76	47.71	55.66	63.61
Germany	98.70	98.95	99.20	99.44	99.36	99.28	99.20
Ghana	27.09	31.18	35.28	39.38	44.16	48.94	53.72
Greece	75.71	79.34	82.98	86.61	85.92	85.23	84.54
Guatemala	15.59	21.96	28.33	34.69	37.16	39.62	42.09
Guinea	2.93	3.33	3.72	4.12	9.30	14.49	19.67
Haiti	21.07	19.42	17.77	16.12	20.76	25.40	30.05
Honduras	14.92	18.96	23.00	27.03	31.67	36.31	40.95
Hong Kong	89.08	91.47	93.87	96.27	95.74	95.22	94.70
Hungary	73.06	72.87	72.69	72.50	72.38	72.27	72.16
India	26.49	32.04	37.59	43.13	54.30	65.47	76.64
Indonesia	19.21	25.29	31.38	37.46	42.09	46.72	51.35
Iran	61.88	70.36	78.84	87.32	88.75	90.18	91.61
Iraq	7.55	7.51	7.48	7.44	11.46	15.48	19.50
Ireland	92.20	93.06	93.91	94.77	94.95	95.13	95.31
Israel	92.44	91.63	90.82	90.02	91.24	92.47	93.70
Italy	64.35	70.62	76.89	83.16	85.98	88.80	91.62
Ivory Coast				29.16	31.30	33.43	35.56
Jamaica	67.12	70.67	74.22	77.76
Japan	96.84	96.90	96.96	97.02	97.37	97.71	98.06
Jordan	17.36	16.75	16.14	15.53	19.22	22.92	26.61
Kazakhstan	43.73	47.68	51.63	55.59	57.15	58.72	60.29
Kenya	39.18	49.83	60.48	71.13	73.34	75.54	77.75
Kosovo	31.45	33.08	34.70	36.32	38.79	41.25	43.72
Kuwait	79.61	74.40	69.20	64.00	67.15	70.31	73.46
Kyrgyzstan	3.94	8.94	13.93	18.93	25.57	32.21	38.85
Laos	26.16	27.11	28.06	29.02	29.97	30.92	31.87
Latvia	92.05	91.42	90.80	90.17	90.96	91.75	92.54
Lebanon	25.90	28.24	30.58	32.91	32.91	32.91	32.91
Lesotho	16.87	21.80	26.73	31.66	36.60	41.53	46.46
Liberia	14.68	16.93	19.18	21.42	23.67	25.92	28.16
Libya							59.62
Lithuania	76.07	76.67	77.27	77.88	78.92	79.97	81.01
Luxembourg	95.33	95.78	96.24	96.69	97.19	97.68	98.18
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)	71.54	69.04	66.53	64.03	66.98	69.93	72.89
Madagascar	4.61	5.87	7.12	8.37	11.02	13.67	16.31
Malawi	16.88	15.91	14.95	13.98	19.27	24.56	29.85
Malaysia	63.10	68.09	73.09	78.09	79.55	81.02	82.48
Mali	6.91	9.50	12.10	14.69	18.36	22.04	25.71
Malta	94.07	94.59	95.10	95.62	96.07	96.52	96.96
Mauritania	12.09	15.06	18.03	21.00	19.16	17.32	15.49
Mauritius	74.73	76.49	78.24	80.00	82.37	84.74	87.11
Mexico	21.97	27.61	33.25	38.90	37.03	35.16	33.29
Moldova	17.17	17.77	18.37	18.98	27.50	36.03	44.55
Mongolia	82.36	85.98	89.59	93.21	93.79	94.37	94.95
Montenegro	48.93	51.92	54.92	57.91	61.13	64.35	67.57
Morocco							16.81
Mozambique							32.87
Namibia				56.77	64.73	72.70	80.66
Nepal	21.22	24.57	27.92	31.27	34.71	38.16	41.60
Netherlands	98.40	98.66	98.92	99.18	99.40	99.61	99.83
New Zealand	99.45	99.37	99.30	99.22	99.26	99.30	99.34
Nicaragua	12.82	13.35	13.89	14.43	17.88	21.34	24.79
Niger	1.45	2.41	3.36	4.31	6.51	8.71	10.91
Nigeria	25.99	28.67	31.35	34.02	31.77	29.53	27.28
Norway				100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Oman	63.53
Pakistan	2.95	3.58	4.21	4.84	5.57	6.30	7.03
Panama	23.31	28.98	34.66	40.33	41.00	41.67	42.34
Paraguay	22.71	26.60	30.49	34.38	38.27	42.16	46.05
Peru	17.56	19.21	20.85	22.50	26.48	30.46	34.44
Philippines	33.71	35.09	36.47	37.85	38.18	38.52	38.85
Poland	68.29	69.84	71.40	72.96	77.96	82.96	87.96
Portugal	77.80	80.57	83.34	86.11	87.61	89.12	90.62
Puerto Rico				66.09
Qatar	61.57
Romania	41.06	46.33	51.60	56.87	55.78	54.68	53.59
Russia	47.70	55.20	62.70	70.19	72.17	74.15	76.13
Rwanda	28.25	30.61	32.96	35.32	38.53	41.75	44.96
Saudi Arabia	15.23	30.54	45.84	61.15	60.16	59.16	58.17
Senegal	5.45	7.43	9.42	11.40	20.42	29.43	38.45
Serbia	62.32	69.20	76.08	82.97	78.69	74.41	70.13
Sierra Leone	12.80	12.70	12.60	12.50	13.45	14.41	15.36
Singapore	98.21	97.50	96.79	96.07	96.15	96.23	96.31
Slovakia	78.92	79.27	79.62	79.97	81.03	82.08	83.13
Slovenia	98.11	97.73	97.36	96.98	96.96	96.95	96.94
Somalia				33.66
South Africa	51.02	57.47	63.92	70.36	70.24	70.11	69.99
South Korea	93.11	93.20	93.29	93.38	93.82	94.25	94.69
South Sudan							4.71
Spain	91.66	93.63	95.60	97.57	95.59	93.62	91.64
Sri Lanka	67.24	72.53	77.82	83.11	79.89	76.66	73.44
Sudan	4.35	6.23	8.11	9.98
Swaziland	27.41
Sweden	99.01	99.26	99.51	99.76	99.84	99.92	100.00
Switzerland				96.69	97.42	98.14	98.86
Syria	19.59
Tajikistan	2.14	4.45	6.77	9.09	20.10	31.12	42.13
Tanzania	13.82	20.66	27.50	34.33	36.94	39.55	42.15
Thailand	72.64	73.57	74.51	75.44	76.89	78.33	79.78
Togo	9.22	11.18	13.15	15.11	22.61	30.10	37.59
Trinidad and Tobago	69.86	70.48	71.10	71.73	72.35	72.98	73.60
Tunisia				20.70	23.26	25.81	28.36
Turkey	32.68	36.61	40.53	44.46	47.74	51.02	54.29
Turkmenistan	0.79	6.58	12.37	18.16	23.94	29.73	35.52
Uganda	15.06	22.25	29.44	36.63	41.99	47.35	52.71
Ukraine	39.21	43.37	47.53	51.69	54.90	58.11	61.32
United Arab Emirates	47.21	54.03	60.86	67.68	70.59	73.50	76.42
United Kingdom	97.65	97.99	98.32	98.65	97.79	96.93	96.07
United States	84.07	87.65	91.22	94.80	94.09	93.39	92.69
Uruguay	23.83	29.64	35.45	41.27	47.72	54.17	60.63
Uzbekistan	21.29	27.31	33.32	39.34	38.21	37.09	35.97
Venezuela	36.15	41.85	47.56	53.26	58.85	64.44	70.04
Vietnam	18.91	23.28	27.66	32.03	31.49	30.96	30.42
Yemen	1.09	1.28	1.48	1.67
Zambia	23.34	26.64	29.94	33.25	35.59	37.94	40.28
Zimbabwe	37.12	34.41	31.69	28.98	36.54	44.10	51.66

Account ownership 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+).

Source: World Bank

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