Countries defining microsavings in law or regulation

Binary indicator: 1 indicates yes; 0 indicates no. World Bank indicator.

📅 2017📏 yes/no (1=yes)117 entries

Africa · 26

Oceania · 5

Asia · 33

Americas · 22

Europe · 31

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (yes/no (1=yes)); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇧🇼Botswana

Yes

🇩🇯Djibouti

Yes

🇫🇯Fiji

Yes

🇬🇲Gambia

Yes

🇮🇳India

Yes

🇮🇩Indonesia

Yes

🇮🇶Iraq

Yes

🇱🇷Liberia

Yes

🇲🇼Malawi

Yes

🇳🇦Namibia

Yes

🇳🇬Nigeria

Yes

🇵🇪Peru

Yes

🇵🇭Philippines

Yes

🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Yes

🇦🇫Afghanistan

🇦🇱Albania

🇦🇴Angola

🇦🇷Argentina

🇦🇲Armenia

🇦🇺Australia

🇦🇹Austria

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

🇧🇸Bahamas

🇧🇭Bahrain

🇧🇩Bangladesh

🇧🇪Belgium

🇧🇹Bhutan

🇧🇴Bolivia

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

🇧🇷Brazil

🇧🇬Bulgaria

🇧🇮Burundi

🇰🇭Cambodia

🇨🇦Canada

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

🇨🇱Chile

🇨🇳China

🇨🇴Colombia

🇨🇷Costa Rica

🇭🇷Croatia

🇩🇰Denmark

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

🇪🇨Ecuador

🇪🇬Egypt

🇸🇻El Salvador

🇪🇪Estonia

🇸🇿Eswatini

🇫🇮Finland

🇫🇷France

🇬🇪Georgia

Highlights

As of 2017, Botswana ranks first with Yes, followed by Djibouti (Yes) and Fiji (Yes).

The top two are virtually level: Botswana and Djibouti differ by less than 1%.

Across 117 countries and territories, values run from Yes (Botswana) to No (Zambia), with a median of No.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Africa, 3 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data, 2017. Unit: yes/no (1=yes).

Source: World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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