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Strange: Roughly 3 billion people worldwide are excluded from banking

Angela Strange · The Open Source Movement in Fintech · Oct 14, 2021 · at 20:24

Angela Strange, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), speaks at fintech_devcon 2021 about global financial inclusion.

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“There's roughly three billion people worldwide that are left out of the financial system.”

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The claim, plainly

Roughly three billion people worldwide are currently excluded from the global financial system.

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Assessment

According to the World Bank's Global Findex Database—the standard benchmark for measuring global financial inclusion—the number of unbanked adults globally was approximately 1.7 billion in 2017 (the most recent dataset available in October 2021) and fell to 1.4 billion in the 2021 survey. Claiming that roughly 3 billion people were left out of the financial system nearly doubles the benchmark figure for unbanked adults, far exceeding a reasonable margin for a round estimate, even if broader commercial definitions combining unbanked and underbanked populations have occasionally cited higher numbers.

World Bank Global Findex 2017 Database reported 1.7 billion unbanked adults worldwide.
World Bank Global Findex 2021 Database reported 1.4 billion unbanked adults worldwide.

Checked against

[1] unepfi.org [2] thefintechrevo.online [3] centerforfinancialinclusion.org [4] worldbank.org [5] borgenproject.org [6] worldbank.org [7] biia.com [8] findevgateway.org

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