The following list ranks countries by the share of population with access to financial services. Access to financial services is defined as the share of the adult population with an account ownership at a

financial institution Financial institutions, sometimes called banking institutions, are business entities that provide services as intermediaries for different types of financial monetary transactions. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial inst ...

or with a mobile-money-service provider. The data for the ranking taken from the Global Financial Inclusion Database, which was compiled by the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

in partnership with Gallup from through surveys of more than 150,000 adults in over 140 countries. Funding for the project came from the

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was ...

. Surveys were taken in 2011, 2014 and 2017.

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