Financial Inclusion Data (Findex) World Bank

Context

What is the Global Findex?

The Global Findex database provides in-depth data on how individuals save, borrow, make payments, and manage risks. It is the world’s most comprehensive database on financial inclusion that consistently measures people’s use of financial services across countries and over time.

To quickly explore the the Global Findex data, you can create dashboards following the link.

Content

The 2014 Global Findex consists of over 100 indicators, also shown by gender, income, and age. the Global Findex is based on interviews with about 150,000 nationally representative and randomly selected adults (age 15+) in over 140 countries.

Acknowledgements

The Global Findex dataset is published by the World Bank and collected in partnership with the Gallup World Poll and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Inspiration

• What trends can we identify across countries for various income groups, age, gender?
• What metric would you create to summarise financial inclusion?
• How does this dataset relate to growth metrics?
• How does this dataset relate to poverty metrics?

For additional inspiration, I refer to the Research Papers by academics that have used the Global Findex data.