[FAS] Financial Access Survey (FAS)

Temporal Coverage: Annual data and metadata starting from 2004 onwards.

Geographic Coverage: The FAS provides global supply-side data on access to and usage of financial services by households and firms for 189 reporting jurisdictions, covering 99 percent of the world’s adult population.

Methodology: The Financial Access Survey draws on the IMF’s Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).

Sectoral Coverage: The 2012 FAS questionnaire was expanded to include time series for credit unions and financial cooperatives, deposit and non-deposit taking microfinance institutions, as well as breakdowns for households vs. small and medium enterprises and life vs. non-life insurance.

Code: FAS

Number of time series: 21792

Number of observations: 340664