Financial Inclusion Data: Assessing the Landscape and Country-Level Target Approaches

The G20 recognizes data and measurement as an essential foundation for advancing financial inclusion at a global level. This report highlights the key findings and recommendations that emerged during the GPFI Data and Measurement Subgroup’s first working year. The report provides the results of the financial inclusion data stocktaking and gap analysis, highlights the key recent developments that are relevant for diagnosing and tracking financial inclusion, including the “Core Set” of indicators, and provides initial analytical approaches to bottom up target setting to inform the road ahead. The recommendations, emerging based on the key findings and the advanced dialogue on the data challenge, are relevant at the global level, including both G20 and non-G20 countries.