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> Posted by Leora Klapper, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Yesterday marked another big step forward in the long-term effort to fill in the financial inclusion data landscape. We in the World Bank’s Development Research Group published the complete micro dataset of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) dataset—the first comparable, cross-country, demand-side data that studies how adults worldwide manage their daily finances and plan for the future.

Ever wondered what percentage of Sub-Saharan women under age 30 with an account use a community-based group to save? The answer is 26 percent but the broader point is that whether you’re looking for a specific statistic or interested in doing your own analyses on the financial behaviors of individuals, you now have a powerful new tool at your disposal. We’re talking over 150,000 individual-level observations, representing adults in 148 economies, and 97 percent of the world’s adult population (the country-level data was released in April). Users can download the complete worldwide dataset, or datasets by country.

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