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Account used to receive wages (% age 15+)

The percentage of respondents who report using their accounts at a formal financial institution to receive money or payments for work or from selling goods in the past 12 months (% age 15+).

📅 2021📏 %118 entries

IcelandEstoniaNorwayNew ZealandAustraliaFinlandSouth KoreaJapanSingaporeHong KongCanadaUnited StatesMongoliaIsraelPortugalIrelandRussiaMauritiusChileMalaysiaFranceThailandChinaUkraineSouth AfricaKazakhstanVenezuelaBrazilNamibiaArgentinaCosta RicaIranSri LankaAlgeriaJamaicaPeruColombiaDominican RepublicPhilippinesKenyaBoliviaEcuadorGabonZimbabweParaguayNigeriaIndonesiaMaliIndiaZambiaLaosEgyptNepalTogoMalawiTanzaniaIraq

75.17% – 49.20%48.55% – 33.28%32.31% – 13.58%13.08% – 6.97%6.50% – 1.69%No data

🇮🇸Iceland

75.17%

🇪🇪Estonia

69.53%

🇸🇪Sweden

67.43%

🇩🇰Denmark

66.89%

🇳🇴Norway

66.71%

🇳🇿New Zealand

63.71%

🇦🇺Australia

62.81%

🇫🇮Finland

62.24%

🇰🇷South Korea

59.54%

🇯🇵Japan

57.53%

🇸🇬Singapore

57.38%

🇸🇮Slovenia

57.34%

🇳🇱Netherlands

56.29%

🇭🇰Hong Kong

56.29%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

55.36%

🇸🇰Slovakia

54.83%

🇨🇦Canada

54.79%

🇧🇪Belgium

53.35%

🇱🇻Latvia

53.22%

🇨🇿Czechia

52.73%

🇵🇱Poland

50.78%

🇭🇺Hungary

50.28%

🇺🇸United States

50.11%

🇭🇷Croatia

49.20%

🇲🇳Mongolia

48.55%

🇮🇱Israel

48.49%

🇲🇹Malta

48.34%

🇩🇪Germany

47.65%

🇵🇹Portugal

46.68%

🇮🇪Ireland

44.27%

🇷🇺Russia

42.75%

🇨🇾Cyprus

41.96%

🇲🇺Mauritius

40.84%

🇦🇹Austria

40.79%

🇨🇱Chile

39.24%

🇬🇷Greece

38.41%

🇲🇾Malaysia

37.40%

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

37.32%

🇫🇷France

37.03%

🇬🇧United Kingdom

35.91%

🇲🇩Moldova

35.80%

🇹🇭Thailand

35.39%

🇨🇳China

35.33%

🇪🇸Spain

35.07%

🇨🇭Switzerland

34.95%

🇧🇬Bulgaria

34.86%

🇱🇹Lithuania

34.11%

🇺🇦Ukraine

33.28%

🇿🇦South Africa

32.31%

🇮🇹Italy

32.19%

Highlights

As of 2021, Iceland ranks first with 75.17%, followed by Estonia (69.53%) and Sweden (67.43%).

Across 118 countries and territories, values run from 75.17% (Iceland) to 1.69% (Sierra Leone), with a median of 20.72%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 2 from Asia and 2 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Account used to receive wages (% age 15+), 2021. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Account used to receive wages (% age 15+) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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Highlights

As of 2021, Iceland ranks first with 75.17%, followed by Estonia (69.53%) and Sweden (67.43%).

Across 118 countries and territories, values run from 75.17% (Iceland) to 1.69% (Sierra Leone), with a median of 20.72%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 2 from Asia and 2 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Account used to receive wages (% age 15+), 2021. Unit: %.