The Global Findex Database 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. Including the inaugural Global Findex Digital Connectivity Tracker, this fifth edition includes new insights on the interaction between mobile phone ownership, internet use, and financial inclusion.The Global Findex is the world's most comprehensive database on digital and financial inclusion. It is also the only global source of comparable demand-side data, allowing cross-country analysis of how adults access and use mobile phones, the internet, and financial accounts to access digital information and resources, save, borrow, make payments, and manage their financial health. Global Findex 2025 data were collected from nationally representative surveys of about 145,000 adults in 141 economies. The latest edition follows the 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2021 editions, and includes new series measuring mobile phone ownership and internet use, digital safety, and financial services transaction frequency.The Global Findex is an indispensable resource for digital connectivity and financial inclusion practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and development professionals.
