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Financial inclusion / BDI

Burundi

Burundi appears in 2 of the 5 Global Findex rounds in this file (2011, 2014). It has no account reading in 2017, 2021, 2024, so those columns are empty below rather than interpolated.

7.1%
Account, 2014
7.2%
Account, 2011
-0.1 pts
Change, 2011 to 2014
not reported
Gender gap, 2014
-
No reading in the 2024 round

Account ownership by group

Share of adults aged 15 and over with an account at a bank or with a mobile money provider. Each line is a separate survey estimate on a subsample, not a decomposition of the total.

% of adults age 15+7.17.27.27.320112014201720212024All adults, 2011: 7.2All adults, 2014: 7.1All adults 7.1

Source: World Bank Global Findex Database 2025 (CC BY-4.0) Indicators account.t.d, account.t.d.1, account.t.d.2, account.t.d.7. Methodology

Payments, saving and borrowing

The digital-payment, saved and borrowed indicators are not collected in every round or for every economy: in the 2024 round they are reported for a subset of the economies that report account ownership.

Share of adults age 15+20112014201720212024
Made or received a digital payment-4.3%---
Mobile money account-0.7%---
Saved at a bank or using mobile money3.3%4.0%---
Borrowed from a bank or using mobile money-1.6%---

Source: World Bank Global Findex Database 2025 (CC BY-4.0) Indicators g20.any, mobileaccount.t.d, fin17a.17a1.d, fin22a.22a1.22g.d. A dash means no reading for Burundi in that round. Methodology

Physical access points

From the IMF Financial Access Survey by way of the GFDD, which stops in 2021. Each figure is Burundi’s latest reported year, which is shown beside it and is not necessarily the same year as another economy’s. These are the published values, reproduced without adjustment; for at least one economy the published branch and ATM counts are not physically possible, which the methodology page documents.

3.2
Bank branches per 100,000 adults (2016)
1.4
ATMs per 100,000 adults (2016)

Source: World Bank Global Financial Development Database | IMF Financial Access Survey GFDD.AI.02 and GFDD.AI.25, latest reported year for this economy. Methodology

Access infrastructure (IMF Financial Access Survey)

Findex above measures use: whether adults say they have an account. The FAS measures infrastructure: what regulators count. For Burundi the FAS carries readings from 2004 to 2022, annual rather than in survey rounds, pulled directly from the IMF’s API.

Per 100,000 adults0.01.02.03.04.02004200720102013201620192022Branches, 2004: 1.5Branches, 2005: 1.6Branches, 2006: 1.7Branches, 2007: 1.8Branches, 2008: 1.8Branches, 2009: 2.0Branches, 2010: 2.2Branches, 2011: 2.4Branches, 2012: 2.6Branches, 2013: 3.0Branches, 2014: 3.0Branches, 2015: 3.1Branches, 2016: 3.1Branches, 2017: 3.1Branches, 2018: 3.0Branches, 2019: 2.9Branches, 2020: 3.0Branches, 2021: 3.1Branches, 2022: 3.2Branches 3.2ATMs, 2004: 0.1ATMs, 2005: 0.0ATMs, 2006: 0.0ATMs, 2007: 0.0ATMs, 2008: 0.1ATMs, 2009: 0.3ATMs, 2010: 0.5ATMs, 2011: 0.7ATMs, 2012: 0.9ATMs, 2013: 1.4ATMs, 2014: 1.4ATMs, 2015: 1.4ATMs, 2016: 1.4ATMs, 2017: 1.6ATMs, 2018: 1.5ATMs, 2019: 1.6ATMs, 2020: 1.4ATMs, 2021: 1.4ATMs, 2022: 1.6ATMs 1.6

Source: IMF Financial Access Survey Access points per 100,000 adults (FA26N, FA18N). MM agents are active mobile-money agent outlets, reported only where the country serves mobile money. Methodology

Accounts per 1,000 adults. A registered mobile-money count above 1,000 means more registrations than adults; registration is not use, and an active count (90-day use) runs well below it where both are reported.

Per 1,000 adults0.0204060802004200720102013201620192022Deposit accts, 2004: 14.2Deposit accts, 2005: 16.4Deposit accts, 2006: 17.7Deposit accts, 2007: 18.8Deposit accts, 2008: 20.0Deposit accts, 2009: 23.2Deposit accts, 2010: 31.1Deposit accts, 2011: 33.3Deposit accts, 2012: 39.2Deposit accts, 2013: 32.1Deposit accts, 2014: 34.9Deposit accts, 2015: 37.9Deposit accts, 2017: 33.7Deposit accts, 2018: 60.8Deposit accts, 2019: 19.4Deposit accts, 2020: 16.5Deposit accts 16.5Loan accts, 2004: 2.8Loan accts, 2005: 3.2Loan accts, 2006: 4.2Loan accts, 2007: 3.8Loan accts, 2008: 4.1Loan accts, 2009: 4.4Loan accts, 2010: 6.1Loan accts, 2011: 6.7Loan accts, 2012: 11.2Loan accts, 2013: 11.6Loan accts, 2014: 13.1Loan accts, 2015: 14.6Loan accts, 2017: 12.2Loan accts, 2018: 14.3Loan accts, 2019: 16.3Loan accts, 2020: 10.1Loan accts 10.1

Source: IMF Financial Access Survey Accounts per 1,000 adults (FA30N_COMBANK, LOANACCN_COMBANK), commercial banks and mobile money. Methodology