Global Financial Inclusion numbers:

♤ Globally great strides have been made toward financial inclusion and 1.2 billion adults worldwide have gotten access to an account since 2011. Today, 69% of adults have an account.

♤ However, close to one-third of adults – 1.7 billion – are still unbanked, according to the latest Findex data.

♤ About half of unbanked people include women poor households in rural areas or out of the workforce.

♤ The gender gap in account ownership remains stuck at 9 percentage points in developing countries, hindering women from being able to effectively control their financial lives. Countries with high mobile money account ownership have less gender inequality.