Registered mobile money accounts
20.5million▲ 22.2% vs 2023
Latest observation 2024
- Latest
- 20.5
- Change
- +687.2%
- Year on year
- +22.2%
- High
- 20.5 2024
- Low
- 2.6 2013
- Average
- 9.2
Registered mobile money accounts is 20.5 million (2024), 687.2% higher than in 2013. Over the last year: +22.2%. This is the highest level in the period shown.
What is this?
Registered mobile money accounts, as reported to the IMF.
How to read it
Registered is not active: dormant accounts and multiple SIMs inflate the count.
Unit: million.
What does the data say?
Registered mobile money accounts is 20.5 million (2024), 687.2% higher than in 2013. Over the last year: +22.2%. This is the highest level in the period shown.
Over all 12 observations since 2013, the highest was 20.5 (2024) and the lowest 2.6 (2013).
Why does it matter?
- Households: Access to digital payments and transfers.
- Businesses: Digital payment reach.
- Government: Financial inclusion progress.
- Investors: Market size and growth.
- Mobile money: Industry-wide benchmark against which one provider's share and growth can be judged; registered and active customers must be kept distinct.
Observed facts are above; these are possible implications, not measured effects.
What should I watch?
Data source
- Source
- IMF Financial Access Survey via FRED (MOZFCMARNUM)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Observations
- 12 (2013 – 2024)
- Last retrieved
- 2026-10-17
- Method
- Supply-side data reported by national authorities to the IMF each year.
- Limitations
- Registered accounts and agents are not active ones; one person may hold several accounts. Annual, with a lag of a year or more.
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