Last year, I had an opportunity to attend the workshop on Global Findex. Ms. Leora Klapper, a founder of the Global Findex Database, shared her important findings for Indonesia. Here are 3 facts that you probably didn’t know about Indonesia’s unbanked:
1. 49 percent are women
Globally, women still are less likely than men to have an account. As depicted in Figure 1.6, 72 percent of men and 65 percent of women have an account, a gender gap of 7 percentage points.
In Indonesia, the overall share of adults with an account went up from 20 percent in 2011 to 49 percent in 2017. The gender gap was pretty equal which 51 percent of women have an account, against 46 percent of men.
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