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Burundi

No Open Banking

A landlocked, resource-poor country.

13% of the population uses the internet, with 61% of the population connected through mobile phones.

Only 13% of Burundi’s adult population had an account in a formal financial institution as of 2014, underlying this country as one of the poorest in the world, with the lowest Gross National Income (GNI), as of 2020, of $270.

Burundi ranked 130th out of 134 countries in Wiley’s Digital Skills Global Index 2021