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Global Findex 2025

The Global Findex Database is the world's only demand-side survey on financial inclusion and a leading source of data on how adults around the world access and use financial services.

Since its launch in 2011, the Global Findex has provided critical insights into financial inclusion, digital payments, savings, and borrowing behaviors across various economies. The database highlights key trends such as the rise of digital financial services and the gender gap in account ownership.

Global Economic Prospects, June 2025

The global economy is facing substantial headwinds, emanating largely from an increase in trade tensions and heightened global policy uncertainty. For emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), the weak outlook limits their ability to boost job creation and reduce extreme poverty. This challenging context is compounded by subdued foreign direct investment into EMDEs.

Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Intertwined Crises, Multiple Vulnerabilities

Nearly 40 percent of the population of FCS economies lives in extreme poverty. By 2030, these economies are projected to account for nearly 60 percent of the world’s extreme poor, up from 50 percent in 2024. They also bear a growing burden of hunger: around 200 million people—nearly one in five—now face acute food insecurity.

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Growth in South Asia is on track to exceed earlier expectations and reach 6.6 percent in 2025, but is expected to slow to 5.8 percent in 2026.
Growth prospects in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAAP) are improving, in line with global trends, but conflict, fragility, and displacement remain persistent challenges.
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase from 3.5 percent in 2024 to 3.8 percent in 2025 and further growth to 4.4 percent through 2026-2027. Improved terms of trade are helping to stabilize local currencies, but real income per capita is only set to rise slightly, leaving extreme poverty largely unchallenged.
GDP growth in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region remains above the global average but is projected to slow down in 2025 and even further in 2026.
Latin America and the Caribbean faces a challenging outlook: slow economic and job growth, lower commodity prices, sluggish decline in global interest rates reducing demand and complicating debt service, weak investment, stalled nearshoring, and tight fiscal space.
Economic growth in Europe and Central Asia eased to 2.4 percent in 2025, reflecting a sharp slowdown in the Russian Federation. Outside Russia, growth momentum remains broadly resilient, supported by private consumption, infrastructure spending, and a gradual recovery in trade.