Countries & Regions

Microfinance in Latin America and The Caribbean

  • 478
  • 22.9 billion
    15.0 million
    1,031.6
    15.3 billion
    29.2 billion
    15.4 million
MFIs from 22 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
Argentina 10 33,141 33,720,606
Belize 1 4,112 12,033,081
Bolivia 24 918,661 2,280,225,390
Brazil 21 954,237 1,405,752,286
Chile 4 240,960 1,593,107,630
Colombia 29 2,122,784 4,396,080,489
Costa Rica 15 26,419 71,073,072
Dominican Republic 11 365,114 584,514,018
Ecuador 42 729,295 1,651,597,867
El Salvador 14 159,378 388,825,226
Guatemala 19 307,381 178,066,567
Haiti 6 89,174 56,880,896
Honduras 19 161,447 221,565,543
Jamaica 2 16,255 14,172,961
Mexico 51 4,697,363 1,857,746,848
Nicaragua 25 327,817 300,198,880
Panama 4 13,776 20,140,003
Paraguay 6 439,706 737,509,686
Peru 59 3,317,499 7,000,875,071
Suriname 1 135 1,673,948
Uruguay 1 1,321 4,289,826
Venezuela 1 40,094 74,496,626