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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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��Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet�� explores how the foundational natural endowments of land, air, and water��long taken for granted��are under growing threat, putting at risk the very progress they helped create.
Migration in Africa is primarily driven by the search for economic opportunity, safety, and security, including from environmental hardships. However, migration��s potential to uplift African livelihoods remains largely untapped.
The report demonstrates how refugee self-reliance in Sub-Saharan Africa remains elusive and identifies reasons. "Making Refugee Self-Reliance Work: From Aid to Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa" advocates for the enhancement of refugee self-reliance as a strategic, humane, development approach to refugee assistance.
Latin America and the Caribbean has lost not decades but a century of growth due to its inability to identify, adapt, and implement new technologies. The continent can reclaim the lost century by building learning economies, creating the human capital, institutions, and incentives needed to increase the demand for knowledge, facilitate the flow of new ideas, and foment the process of experimentation.
What are the resilient and low-carbon investments that cities around the world could make in the coming decades? How much will these investments cost, and where can cities look for resources to pay for these investments? These are the questions that Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization considers.
The Global Findex 2025 reveals how mobile technology is equipping more adults around the world to own and use financial accounts to save formally, access credit, make and receive digital payments, and pursue opportunities. This edition presents insights on the interactions among mobile phone ownership, internet use, and financial inclusion.