Egypt tripled its ATMs per adult in ten years
ATMs per 100,000 adults, 2014 and 2024, selected countries and the world.
- 1. Egypt is set to outgrow Japan in 2027, then Russia
- 2. In 2025, Suez Canal traffic was under half its record
- 3. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
- 4. Egypt is the world's biggest wheat buyer
- 5. Saudi Arabia has more desalination capacity than the entire US
- 6. Three in four UAE residents are international migrants
- 7. Only America draws more new foreign projects than the UAE
- 8. Algeria outspends all of sub-Saharan Africa on its military
- 9. Women in MENA now outpace men at university
- 10. Dubai's airport handles more international travellers than Heathrow
- 11. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
- 12. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
- 13. Egypt now owes Russia more than any other government
- 14. Two-thirds of young Jordanian women in the workforce are jobless
- 15. Baghdad's mobile internet overtook Erbil's
- 16. Morocco climbed to second in world fertiliser exports
- 17. Algiers now has North Africa's fastest home internet
- 18. Saudi imports from China now top the Group of Seven
- 19. Syria has lost more stored water than drought-famous Iran
- 20. Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does
- 21. More young Tunisian men than women neither work nor study
- 22. Egypt tripled its ATMs per adult in ten years
Egypt's ATMs per 100,000 adults, from 12.1 in 2014 to 37.1 in 2024: the fastest rise of the countries shown.
Britain went from 130 to 77.7 ATMs per 100,000 adults; Brazil fell from 119 to 90.
ATMs per 100,000 adults worldwide in 2024, a record; Bangladesh rose 2.7 times, from 5.8 to 15.9.
the numbers & method
| 2014 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 130.0 | 77.7 |
| Brazil | 119.4 | 89.9 |
| Mexico | 50.9 | 70.0 |
| Saudi Arabia | 73.5 | 56.1 |
| South Africa | 63.5 | 46.0 |
| World | 35.2 | 41.9 |
| Egypt | 12.1 | 37.1 |
| India | 17.6 | 24.5 |
| Bangladesh | 5.8 | 15.9 |
| Pakistan | 6.9 | 12.1 |
Claim types Fact
World Bank WDI indicator FB.ATM.TOTL.P5 (from the IMF Financial Access Survey), edition last updated 8 Oct 2026. Egypt 12.07 (2014) → 37.06 (2024), ×3.07; Britain 129.96 → 77.74 (−40.2%); Brazil 119.43 → 89.90 (−24.7%); Bangladesh 5.81 → 15.87 (×2.73); World 35.17 → 41.91 (highest in the series, which starts in 2004). Ratios and % changes are progrss calculations. Countries shown: large economies with both years; Germany, France and South Korea have no 2024 value. Read from the World Bank API via the progrss vault (source wb-wdi, loaded 10 Nov 2026); headline values re-read live on api.worldbank.org on 10 Nov 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0. The World Bank's South Asia aggregate is not used: its 2024 value equals India's to every digit.
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