Mobile money transactions (number per year)
2,521million▲ 48.2% vs 2023
Latest observation 2024
- Latest
- 2,521
- Change
- +49,200.3%
- Year on year
- +48.2%
- High
- 2,521 2024
- Low
- 5 2014
- Average
- 741
Mobile money transactions (number per year) is 2,521 million (2024), 49200.3% higher than in 2014. Over the last year: +48.2%. This is the highest level in the period shown.
What is this?
Mobile money transactions (number per year), as reported to the IMF.
How to read it
A provider-reported total across all mobile money operators.
Unit: million.
What does the data say?
Mobile money transactions (number per year) is 2,521 million (2024), 49200.3% higher than in 2014. Over the last year: +48.2%. This is the highest level in the period shown.
Over all 11 observations since 2014, the highest was 2,521 (2024) and the lowest 5 (2014).
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 (MOZFCMTNUM)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Observations
- 11 (2014 – 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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