Countries & Regions

Microfinance in Africa

  • 508
  • 4.6 billion
    4.5 million
    371.9
    4.7 billion
    6.7 billion
    16.6 million
MFIs from 32 countries reporting data for 2010.
Country MFIs Number of active borrowers Number of active borrowers

Number of borrowers with loans outstanding

 		Gross Loan Portfolio Gross Loan Portfolio

Gross Loan Portfolio
Angola 1 9,146 9,687,540
Benin 6 105,992 71,407,265
Burkina Faso 7 121,319 139,349,046
Burundi 1 14,169 3,288,528
Cameroon 11 135,981 232,428,229
Central African Republic 1 2,654 3,242,591
Chad 1 20,410 6,791,884
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 4 91,649 59,197,459
Congo, Republic of the 2 65,880 95,577,146
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 3 43,152 41,714,451
Ethiopia 1 659,635 108,204,381
Gabon 1 907 1,156,766
Gambia, The 1 1,850 3,111,390
Ghana 13 194,786 71,716,980
Guinea 1 — 6,153,653
Kenya 12 1,149,059 1,202,943,107
Liberia 2 26,142 2,732,125
Madagascar 7 77,803 43,131,776
Malawi 3 113,143 36,238,584
Mali 5 139,774 59,120,713
Mozambique 5 36,868 39,581,772
Niger 4 54,091 12,110,631
Nigeria 10 482,343 84,423,784
Rwanda 6 69,829 18,419,740
Senegal 8 204,278 265,929,080
Sierra Leone 2 19,990 2,148,344
South Africa 2 4,176 1,574,127,172
South Sudan 2 6,239 12,604,262
Tanzania 6 222,693 63,712,939
Togo 7 121,664 112,476,117
Uganda 10 279,693 256,472,311
Zambia 3 28,858 4,526,562