Equal access to financial services for women and men by country

The law prohibits gender discrimination by banks or other financial institutions, and requires equal treatment of women and men in financial transactions, business activities, financial assistance, and access to goods and services.

Countries reporting
185
Highest
1 (1=yes; 0=no)
Angola
Lowest
0 (1=yes; 0=no)
Yemen
Median
0 (1=yes; 0=no)
Years covered
54
1970–2023
Data points
10,152

What the numbers show

Equal access to financial services for women and men is currently reported for 185 countries. The highest value is 1 (1=yes; 0=no) in Angola; the lowest is 0 (1=yes; 0=no) in Yemen.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 (1=yes; 0=no), and the mean is 0.4865 (1=yes; 0=no).

Equal access to financial services for women and men: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Angola 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Albania 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 United Arab Emirates 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Australia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged rising
1 Austria 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Azerbaijan 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Belgium 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Benin 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Burkina Faso 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Bulgaria 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Bahrain 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Bolivia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Canada 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged rising
1 Cote d'Ivoire 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Democratic Republic of Congo 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Cape Verde 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Cyprus 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Czechia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Germany 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Djibouti 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Denmark 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Dominican Republic 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Egypt 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Spain 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Estonia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Ethiopia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Finland 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 France 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Gabon 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 United Kingdom 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged rising
1 Georgia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Guinea 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Greece 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Guyana 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Hong Kong 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Honduras 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Croatia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Hungary 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Iraq 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Iceland 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Israel 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Italy 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Jordan 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Kenya 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Kyrgyzstan 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Cambodia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 South Korea 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Laos 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Lithuania 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Latvia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Morocco 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Moldova 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Maldives 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Mexico 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Marshall Islands 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 North Macedonia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Montenegro 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Mongolia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Mozambique 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Mauritius 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Nicaragua 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Netherlands 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 New Zealand 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Peru 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Philippines 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Poland 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Puerto Rico 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged rising
1 Portugal 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Paraguay 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Romania 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Rwanda 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Saudi Arabia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Sierra Leone 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 El Salvador 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Serbia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Slovakia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Slovenia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Sweden 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Togo 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Tajikistan 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Ukraine 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 United States 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged rising
1 Uzbekistan 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Vietnam 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Vanuatu 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 South Africa 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
1 Zambia 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 volatile
1 Zimbabwe 1 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 unchanged volatile
94 Afghanistan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Argentina 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Armenia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Antigua and Barbuda 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Burundi 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Bangladesh 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Bahamas 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Belarus 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Belize 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Brazil 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Barbados 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Brunei 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Bhutan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Botswana 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Central African Republic 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Switzerland 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Chile 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 China 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Cameroon 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Congo 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Colombia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Comoros 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Costa Rica 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Dominica 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Algeria 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Ecuador 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Eritrea 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Fiji 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Micronesia (country) 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Ghana 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Gambia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Guinea-Bissau 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Equatorial Guinea 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Grenada 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Guatemala 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Haiti 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Indonesia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 India 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Iran 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Jamaica 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Japan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Kazakhstan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Kiribati 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Kuwait 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Lebanon 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Liberia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Libya 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Saint Lucia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Sri Lanka 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Lesotho 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Madagascar 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Mali 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Myanmar 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Mauritania 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Malawi 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Malaysia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Namibia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Niger 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Nigeria 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Norway 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Nepal 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Oman 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Pakistan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Panama 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Palau 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Papua New Guinea 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Palestine 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Qatar 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Russia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Sudan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Senegal 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Singapore 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Solomon Islands 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 San Marino 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Somalia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 South Sudan 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Sao Tome and Principe 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Suriname 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Eswatini 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Seychelles 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Syria 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Chad 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Thailand 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 East Timor 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Tonga 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Tunisia 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Turkey 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Tanzania 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Uganda 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Uruguay 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Venezuela 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Samoa 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat
94 Yemen 0 (1=yes; 0=no) 2023 flat

About this data

Indicator
Equal access to financial services for women and men
Unit
(1=yes; 0=no)
Source
Women, Business and the Law; World Bank – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
188 places, 10,152 data points, 1970–2023
Last refreshed

The law prohibits gender discrimination by banks or other financial institutions, and requires equal treatment of women and men in financial transactions, business activities, financial assistance, and access to goods and services.