Financial inclusion / SSD
South Sudan
South Sudan appears in 2 of the 5 Global Findex rounds in this file (2017, 2021). It has no account reading in 2011, 2014, 2024, so those columns are empty below rather than interpolated.
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.
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+ | 2011 | 2014 | 2017 | 2021 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Made or received a digital payment | - | - | 7.3% | 4.8% | - |
| Mobile money account | - | - | - | 0.8% | - |
| Saved at a bank or using mobile money | - | - | 3.7% | 1.7% | - |
| Borrowed from a bank or using mobile money | - | - | 3.4% | 2.6% | - |
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 South Sudan 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 South Sudan’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.
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 South Sudan the FAS carries readings from 2009 to 2024, annual rather than in survey rounds, pulled directly from the IMF’s API. In 2024, mobile-money transactions ran at 39,986 per 1,000 adults, about 40 transactions per adult over the year.
Source: IMF Financial Access Survey Access points per 100,000 adults (FA26N, FA18N, FA5N). 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.
Source: IMF Financial Access Survey Accounts per 1,000 adults (FA30N_COMBANK, LOANACCN_COMBANK, FA67N, FA63N), commercial banks and mobile money. Methodology