Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider (% of population ages 15+) - Country Ranking - Africa
Definition: 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 (% age 15+).
Source: Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2018, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison
| Rank | Country | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mauritius | 89.84 | 2017 |
| 2 | Kenya | 81.57 | 2017 |
| 3 | Namibia | 80.63 | 2017 |
| 4 | South Africa | 69.22 | 2017 |
| 5 | Libya | 65.67 | 2017 |
| 6 | Uganda | 59.20 | 2017 |
| 7 | Gabon | 58.60 | 2017 |
| 8 | Ghana | 57.72 | 2017 |
| 9 | Zimbabwe | 55.29 | 2017 |
| 10 | Botswana | 51.03 | 2017 |
| 11 | Rwanda | 50.02 | 2017 |
| 12 | Tanzania | 46.75 | 2017 |
| 13 | Zambia | 45.86 | 2017 |
| 14 | Lesotho | 45.56 | 2017 |
| 15 | Togo | 45.29 | 2017 |
| 16 | Burkina Faso | 43.16 | 2017 |
| 17 | Algeria | 42.78 | 2017 |
| 18 | Senegal | 42.34 | 2017 |
| 19 | Mozambique | 41.67 | 2017 |
| 20 | Côte d'Ivoire | 41.33 | 2017 |
| 21 | Nigeria | 39.67 | 2017 |
| 22 | Somalia | 38.66 | 2014 |
| 23 | Benin | 38.49 | 2017 |
| 24 | Tunisia | 36.91 | 2017 |
| 25 | Liberia | 35.71 | 2017 |
| 26 | Mali | 35.42 | 2017 |
| 27 | Ethiopia | 34.83 | 2017 |
| 28 | Cameroon | 34.59 | 2017 |
| 29 | Malawi | 33.71 | 2017 |
| 30 | Egypt | 32.78 | 2017 |
| 31 | Angola | 29.32 | 2014 |
| 32 | Morocco | 28.64 | 2017 |
| 33 | Eswatini | 28.57 | 2011 |
| 34 | Congo | 26.09 | 2017 |
| 35 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 25.83 | 2017 |
| 36 | Guinea | 23.49 | 2017 |
| 37 | Chad | 21.76 | 2017 |
| 38 | Comoros | 21.69 | 2011 |
| 39 | Mauritania | 20.87 | 2017 |
| 40 | Sierra Leone | 19.81 | 2017 |
| 41 | Madagascar | 17.87 | 2017 |
| 42 | Niger | 15.52 | 2017 |
| 43 | Sudan | 15.27 | 2014 |
| 44 | Central African Republic | 13.75 | 2017 |
| 45 | Djibouti | 12.27 | 2011 |
| 46 | Burundi | 7.11 | 2014 |
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Aggregation method: Weighted average
Periodicity: Annual
General Comments: Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).
