The Global Findex Database 2025: Connectivity and Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy

South Africa, 2024

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Reference ID

ZAF_2024_FINDEX_v02_M

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 05, 2026

Last modified

Jan 05, 2026

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Data file: Findex_Microdata_2025_updateSouth Africa

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 17

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Into an account	245	24.5%
2	In cash only	41	4.1%
3	In some other way	9	0.9%
4	Did not receive	700	70%
5	DK/ref	5	0.5%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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