MIX Market

Microfinance in Africa

  • 381
  • 3.2 billion
    6.7 million
    307.9
    2.8 billion
    5.2 billion
    16.8 million
Year
MFIs from 31 countries reporting data for 2008.
Country MFIs Gross loan portfolio Number of active borrowers
Angola 1 7,213,339 9,128
Benin 9 96,451,803 142,350
Burkina Faso 5 113,232,659 115,544
Burundi 3 872,789 16,360
Cameroon 11 176,127,800 191,220
Central African Republic 1 3,666,577 2,651
Chad 1 7,152,355 18,113
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 8 33,379,066 66,731
Congo, Republic of the 2 2,386,249 1,784
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 1 59,352,988 45,770
Ethiopia 14 425,526,989 1,889,604
Gambia, The 2 3,167,145 23,445
Ghana 26 123,022,758 364,043
Guinea 6 13,917,729 89,672
Guinea-Bissau 1 244,192 567
Kenya 15 781,825,597 1,108,872
Madagascar 8 35,733,578 57,546
Malawi 6 55,336,688 197,207
Mali 12 83,533,504 227,745
Mozambique 5 38,500,290 53,374
Niger 5 16,165,562 100,658
Nigeria 7 67,666,383 348,750
Rwanda 7 15,357,723 54,343
Senegal 13 261,553,455 218,660
Sierra Leone 4 7,742,540 26,363
South Africa 4 335,582,478 722,699
Swaziland 1 36,834,450 5,772
Tanzania 9 77,277,428 270,077
Togo 5 83,625,848 87,943
Uganda 11 192,937,541 262,458
Zambia 3 3,772,615 16,050