Financial Access Survey (FAS)

The Financial Access Survey (FAS), launched in 2009, is a supply-side dataset on access to and use of financial services designed to support policymakers to measure and monitor financial inclusion and assess progress relative to peers. The dataset covers 189 countries over 10+ years and contains 121 time series on financial access and usage, including mobile money and gender disaggregated data on basic financial services. To facilitate meaningful comparison, FAS also publishes 64 indicators that are standardized relative to the size of the adult population, land area and gross domestic product (GDP). Two FAS indicators, the number of ATMs per 100,000 adults and the number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults, were adopted by the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicator framework to monitor SDG Target 8.10, which seeks to strengthen domestic financial institutions to expand access to banking and financial services.

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International Monetary Fund

Temporal coverage

2009 - 2018

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