Conducted from June to December 2020, the CGAP Global Pulse Survey of Microfinance Institutions was the first survey that aims to capture the full picture of COVID-19’s impact on microfinance at the global, regional, and national levels.

Through simple, interactive data visualizations, this Data Hub puts at providers’ fingertips more than 300,000 data points from CGAP’s demand-side smallholder research, enabling them to look for promising business opportunities to develop products and serve these families.

The Financial Access Survey, launched in 2009, is a supply-side dataset on access to and use of financial services aimed at supporting policymakers to measure and monitor financial inclusion and benchmark progress against peers.

A listing of coronavirus-related data useful for the microfinance sector and the financial inclusion community. Learn who is tracking what.

This Data Portal allows you to compare indicators across countries and periods. You may gain a broad overview of the financial market, or deepen your understanding of how low-income households manage their financial lives.

This dataset includes measures of depth, access, efficiency, and stability of financial systems for 214 economies.

The 2019 Global Fintech Survey polled more than 500 financial services and technology, media and telecommunications executives worldwide and analyzed their responses.

The GPSS aims to take an accurate snapshot of payment systems worldwide to obtain information on payment system reforms and the factors which hinder and/or facilitate them in order to help guide policy-dialogue at the international and national levels, and World Bank Group technical assistance.

The survey provides important insights into the performance of mobile financial services deployments that target unbanked and underserved customers globally. 

For more than 15 years, dozens of data points for each provider have been collected, analyzed, and reported through MIX Market, the microfinance data service operated by MIX currently hosted by the World Bank’s Data Catalog.