One billion women – more than 40% of the women around the world – don’t have access to formal financial services, according to Global Findex.
The gender finance gap remains at 9% in developing countries, although in some parts of the world it is much higher, according to the 2014 Global Findex data.
Women are 20% less likely than men to have a bank account and 17% less likely to have borrowed money formally.

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