Dataset
Adoption of mobile money accounts vs. adoption of mobile phones
owid.adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones
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About
The percentage of respondents who report personally using a mobile money service in the past year. The percentage of respondents who report owning a mobile phone. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: World Bank (2021) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Share with a mobile money account” [dataset]. World Bank, “The Global Findex Database” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2014–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-05-21
- Units
- %
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/adoption-of-mobile-money-accounts-vs-adoption-of-mobile-phones
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| mobile_money_account__pct_age_15plus | number | Share with a mobile money account (%) |
| own_a_mobile_phone__pct_age_15plus | number | Share with a mobile phone (%) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |