As of 2022, 48.89 percent of the world’s live mobile money services operated in Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, registered and active mobile money accounts followed the same trend, with 47.69 percent and 54.36 percent of the world’s share, respectively. This can also be seen regarding both transaction value and transaction volume, each with a share of 66.03 percent and 69.23 percent. Compared to 2021, transaction value and live services dropped, with a decrease of 3.74 percentage points and.2.06 percentage points, respectively.
Sub-Saharan Africa mobile money figures as a share of the world from 2019 to 2022
Mobile money is a service through which a customer is able to receive, store, send, and spend money via a mobile phone device. Several entities provide the service, like telecom companies, mobile money operators, payments service providers, banks, etc.
According to the source, both the value and volume are processed via airtime top-ups, cash-ins, cash-outs, bill payments, bulk disbursements, international remittances, P2P transfers, and merchant payments.
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