Data for 2021
Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021
Figures for 2021, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten
Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 covers 123 countries on 3 measures. Denmark is highest, at 100.000; South Sudan is lowest, at 4.811. The middle country reads 65.567. Against 2017, 120 values changed (103 up, 17 down), 3 countries joined, 25 left.
Made or Received a Digital Payment · Data for 2021
HighestDenmark
100.000LowestSouth Sudan
4.811Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.
01Position · derived
The table
Every country and every column of Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 123 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100.000 | 100.00 | 100.00 | |
| 2 | 99.874 | 100.00 | 99.75 | |
| 3 | 99.481 | 99.29 | 99.68 | |
| 4 | 99.478 | 100.00 | 98.98 | |
| 5 | 99.300 | 98.93 | 99.69 | |
| 6 | 99.169 | 99.28 | 99.05 | |
| 7 | 99.060 | 98.72 | 99.39 | |
| 8 | 98.950 | 99.87 | 97.96 | |
| 9 | 98.785 | 98.80 | 98.77 | |
| 10 | 98.651 | 99.40 | 97.78 | |
| 11 | 98.474 | 98.51 | 98.44 | |
| 12 | 98.448 | 99.12 | 97.72 | |
| 13 | 98.348 | 98.36 | 98.34 | |
| 14 | 98.217 | 98.03 | 98.41 | |
| 15 | 98.216 | 98.47 | 97.95 | |
| 16 | 97.939 | 97.73 | 98.13 | |
| 17 | 97.599 | 98.83 | 96.30 | |
| 18 | 97.530 | 96.16 | 98.90 | |
| 19 | 97.415 | 97.26 | 97.58 | |
| 20 | 97.409 | 98.59 | 96.10 | |
| 21 | 97.018 | 95.31 | 98.83 | |
| 22 | 95.791 | 95.66 | 95.93 | |
| 23 | 95.775 | 95.15 | 96.36 | |
| 24 | 95.347 | 95.84 | 94.76 | |
| 25 | 94.838 | 93.04 | 96.76 | |
| 26 | 94.550 | 93.00 | 96.22 | |
| 27 | 94.106 | 92.22 | 96.06 | |
| 28 | 93.184 | 92.39 | 94.04 | |
| 29 | 92.966 | 95.69 | 90.20 | |
| 30 | 92.767 | 91.61 | 94.18 | |
| 31 | 92.026 | 88.10 | 96.17 | |
| 32 | 91.395 | 88.40 | 94.37 | |
| 33 | 91.159 | 90.07 | 92.30 | |
| 34 | 90.761 | 88.13 | 93.65 | |
| 35 | 90.732 | 88.95 | 92.51 | |
| 36 | 90.644 | 88.20 | 93.34 | |
| 37 | 87.749 | 84.95 | 90.65 | |
| 38 | 87.485 | 88.92 | 86.02 | |
| 39 | 87.415 | 87.74 | 87.03 | |
| 40 | 87.194 | 86.33 | 88.17 | |
| 41 | 87.085 | 84.67 | 89.87 | |
| 42 | 86.372 | 84.58 | 88.39 | |
| 43 | 86.190 | 84.93 | 87.31 | |
| 44 | 84.491 | 76.98 | 91.92 | |
| 45 | 84.287 | 84.12 | 84.48 | |
| 46 | 81.338 | 77.91 | 85.51 | |
| 47 | 81.189 | 75.37 | 86.93 | |
| 48 | 80.806 | 82.14 | 79.45 | |
| 49 | 80.115 | 75.09 | 85.55 | |
| 50 | 79.296 | 75.87 | 82.71 | |
| 51 | 77.926 | 81.78 | 73.62 | |
| 52 | 77.556 | 73.76 | 81.56 | |
| 53 | 76.612 | 76.55 | 76.64 | |
| 54 | 76.516 | 72.57 | 80.27 | |
| 55 | 75.226 | 74.41 | 76.09 | |
| 56 | 74.323 | 68.56 | 80.02 | |
| 57 | 73.455 | 62.73 | 80.73 | |
| 58 | 67.985 | 68.93 | 66.94 | |
| 59 | 67.627 | 54.94 | 79.99 | |
| 60 | 66.519 | 56.32 | 77.17 | |
| 61 | 66.373 | 64.34 | 68.70 | |
| 62 | 65.567 | 59.43 | 72.03 | |
| 63 | 65.521 | 61.03 | 70.56 | |
| 64 | 65.020 | 64.36 | 65.66 | |
| 65 | 63.511 | 61.40 | 65.74 | |
| 66 | 62.578 | 61.96 | 63.28 | |
| 67 | 62.166 | 63.97 | 60.09 | |
| 68 | 59.757 | 59.60 | 59.93 | |
| 69 | 59.158 | 52.86 | 65.83 | |
| 70 | 57.665 | 52.14 | 63.52 | |
| 71 | 55.455 | 47.60 | 62.69 | |
| 72 | 55.061 | 47.51 | 63.21 | |
| 73 | 53.021 | 47.44 | 59.27 | |
| 74 | 52.110 | 48.39 | 56.13 | |
| 75 | 51.155 | 50.52 | 51.79 | |
| 76 | 50.216 | 44.36 | 56.55 | |
| 77 | 49.852 | 47.79 | 52.00 | |
| 78 | 49.668 | 45.64 | 53.83 | |
| 79 | 49.141 | 44.21 | 54.46 | |
| 80 | 47.658 | 34.97 | 60.28 | |
| 81 | 47.594 | 36.78 | 58.67 | |
| 82 | 47.471 | 43.30 | 52.78 | |
| 83 | 46.904 | 40.39 | 53.61 | |
| 84 | 46.447 | 44.02 | 49.17 | |
| 85 | 46.079 | 39.15 | 53.27 | |
| 86 | 45.264 | 33.56 | 57.86 | |
| 87 | 44.361 | 40.40 | 48.47 | |
| 88 | 43.685 | 36.95 | 50.99 | |
| 89 | 43.653 | 38.81 | 48.77 | |
| 90 | 43.452 | 39.31 | 47.88 | |
| 91 | 42.320 | 31.47 | 53.88 | |
| 92 | 41.722 | 35.86 | 48.45 | |
| 93 | 40.311 | 35.68 | 45.42 | |
| 94 | 39.906 | 36.66 | 43.33 | |
| 95 | 39.428 | 38.02 | 40.94 | |
| 96 | 38.730 | 35.51 | 42.03 | |
| 97 | 38.135 | 36.69 | 39.66 | |
| 98 | 37.186 | 38.70 | 35.60 | |
| 99 | 36.450 | 36.98 | 35.88 | |
| 100 | 36.370 | 24.19 | 47.08 | |
| 101 | 34.932 | 27.98 | 41.42 | |
| 102 | 34.553 | 34.90 | 34.19 | |
| 103 | 33.742 | 23.08 | 44.27 | |
| 104 | 33.740 | 22.64 | 44.61 | |
| 105 | 33.295 | 27.38 | 40.10 | |
| 106 | 33.133 | 33.59 | 32.65 | |
| 107 | 31.641 | 23.57 | 41.24 | |
| 108 | 30.302 | 21.32 | 39.22 | |
| 109 | 28.578 | 22.91 | 34.95 | |
| 110 | 27.819 | 22.50 | 35.03 | |
| 111 | 27.694 | 21.04 | 34.50 | |
| 112 | 27.650 | 21.48 | 33.85 | |
| 113 | 27.006 | 22.99 | 31.43 | |
| 114 | 26.077 | 23.90 | 28.62 | |
| 115 | 21.371 | 18.79 | 24.21 | |
| 116 | 21.249 | 20.22 | 22.34 | |
| 117 | 20.994 | 14.86 | 27.19 | |
| 118 | 20.197 | 16.19 | 24.06 | |
| 119 | 17.623 | 11.35 | 23.65 | |
| 120 | 14.236 | 11.37 | 17.09 | |
| 121 | 14.015 | 11.19 | 16.73 | |
| 122 | 7.882 | — | — | |
| 123 | 4.811 | — | — |
02In 2021
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Lowest
- 123
South Sudan4.811
- 122
Afghanistan7.882
- 121
Lebanon14.015
- 120
Iraq14.236
- 119
Pakistan17.623
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 65.567. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
032017 → 2021
Since 2017
What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +3 / −25countries joined / left
- 120values changed, of 120 in both
- 103 · 17rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
Myanmar7.708 → 39.906+32.198
Thailand62.274 → 92.026+29.752
Republic of the Congo17.815 → 44.361+26.547
Argentina40.178 → 65.020+24.842
Kazakhstan53.874 → 77.926+24.052
Fell most
Lebanon33.086 → 14.015−19.071
Tajikistan43.934 → 33.133−10.800
United Arab Emirates84.040 → 76.612−7.428
Dominican Republic44.389 → 38.730−5.659
Burkina Faso38.915 → 33.295−5.621
Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
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What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.
Which end is better
A higher value is the better result.
4 empty cells
An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.
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World Bank Group (2021). Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/digital-payments/2021
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07Questions
Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021: questions and answers
Which country has the highest digital payments in Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021?
Denmark, at 100.000, of the 123 countries in the file.
What year does Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 describe?
2021.
How many countries does Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 cover?
123.
Where can I download Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021?
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
Is Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2021 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Made or Received a Digital Payment, 2024.