In Rwanda, 50% of people rely on cash (World Bank, 2018)

The statistic comes from the World Bank report, The Little Data Book of Financial Inclusion report, published in April 2018.

Rwanda has a population of 12.21 million, of which, 7.1 million are above the age of 15. Of these 7.1 million, only 50% have bank accounts, according to the World Bank's 2019 Little Book of Financial Inclusion. That's at least 3.5 million Rwandans relying on universal, democratic and easy-to-use cash.

Other findings

• 66.5% of people in the Middle East and North Africa are unbanked
• 64% of people in Latin America & the Caribbean are unbanked
• 44.6% of people in Latin America & the Caribbean are unbanked
• 35% of people in Europe and Central Asia are unbanked
• 31.5% of adults globally do not have bank accounts...that's 1.7 billion people!