Dataset · World Bank Group
Account Ownership Among Women
5 years, 2011–2024 · 139 countries · 2 measures
This is the share of women who have an account at a bank or other financial institution, or who used a mobile-money service in the past year — financial inclusion measured for women, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. The men's rate is stored beside it, so the gap between the two can be read directly.
This site holds every year from 2011 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Account Ownership Among Women · the file
- Newest
- Account Ownership Among Women, 2024
- Held
- 5 years · 663 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
015 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account Ownership Among Women, 2024Newest | 139 | +22 −3 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Account Ownership Among Women, 2021 | 120 | +3 −26 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Account Ownership Among Women, 2017 | 143 | +15 −7 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Account Ownership Among Women, 2014 | 135 | +20 −11 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Account Ownership Among Women, 2011 | 126 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: account-ownership-women-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 139 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 139 | 0 | |
Women with an account (% of women aged 15+)femaleHeadline | The headline figure: Women with an account (% of women aged 15+). | Number · up to 13 decimals | 11.912 | 139 | 0 | |
Men with an account (% of men aged 15+)maleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 13 decimals | 17.614 | 138 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03158 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2011 | 2014 | 2017 | 2021 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 27 | 33 | 39 | 28 | 40 |
| Americas | 23 | 23 | 22 | 19 | 22 |
| Asia | 37 | 38 | 41 | 34 | 37 |
| Europe | 37 | 39 | 39 | 37 | 38 |
| Oceania | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| All | 126 | 135 | 143 | 120 | 139 |
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Azerbaijan
+ Bahrain
+ Belize
+ Botswana
+ DR Congo
+ Comoros
+ Ethiopia
+ Gambia
+ Guatemala
+ Kuwait
+ Libya
+ Lesotho
+ Madagascar
+ Mexico
+ Montenegro
+ Mauritania
+ Niger
+ Oman
+ Eswatini
+ Chad
+ Trinidad and Tobago
+ Vietnam
− United Arab Emirates
− Jamaica
− Myanmar
- 2021
+ Iceland
+ Jamaica
+ Morocco
− Afghanistan
− Azerbaijan
− Bahrain
− Belarus
− Botswana
− Central African Republic
− DR Congo
− Ethiopia
− Gambia
− Guatemala
− Haiti
− Kuwait
− Libya
− Lesotho
− Luxembourg
− Madagascar
− Maldives
− Mexico
− Montenegro
− Mauritania
− Niger
− Rwanda
− Chad
− Turkmenistan
− Trinidad and Tobago
− Vietnam
- 2017
+ Afghanistan
+ Central African Republic
+ Guinea
+ Gambia
+ Laos
+ Liberia
+ Libya
+ Lesotho
+ Madagascar
+ Maldives
+ Mozambique
+ Niger
+ Paraguay
+ Turkmenistan
+ Trinidad and Tobago
− Angola
− Belize
− Bhutan
− Jamaica
− Puerto Rico
− Sudan
− Somalia
- 2014
+ Belize
+ Bhutan
+ Switzerland
+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ DR Congo
+ Egypt
+ Ethiopia
+ Kyrgyzstan
+ Cambodia
+ Mali
+ Myanmar
+ Namibia
+ Norway
+ Puerto Rico
+ Sudan
+ Senegal
+ Somalia
+ Chad
+ Tajikistan
+ Tunisia
− Comoros
− Djibouti
− Laos
− Liberia
− Lesotho
− Oman
− Paraguay
− Qatar
− Eswatini
− Syria
− Trinidad and Tobago
Not in this dataset · 67 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Account Ownership Among Women 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
5 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as account-ownership-women-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 13 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
The World Bank's Global Findex Database, through its indicator API: the women's rate (account.t.d.1) with the men's rate (account.t.d.2) beside it. A 2022 row covering a handful of economies between survey waves is skipped.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Account Ownership Among Women, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Account Ownership Among Women, 2011–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/account-ownership-women
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. The Global Findex Database. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Account Ownership Among Women by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
- Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023
07Questions
Account Ownership Among Women: questions and answers
What is the Account Ownership Among Women?
This is the share of women who have an account at a bank or other financial institution, or who used a mobile-money service in the past year — financial inclusion measured for women, from the World Bank's Global Findex survey. The men's rate is stored beside it, so the gap between the two can be read directly.
Which years of the Account Ownership Among Women can I download?
All 5, from 2011 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.