the East Asia and Pacific region

FIGURE 2.1.7 Digitalization of private sector wage payments varied across economies in the East Asia and Pacific region

Adults receiving private sector wages in the past year (%), 2021

Source: Global Findex Database 2021.

Agricultural payments were received predominantly in cash, with some exceptions

In developing economies, 11 percent of surveyed adults received payments for the sale of agricultural products, and most of the payments were in cash. On average, across developing economies only one-fourth of recipients received such a payment into an account, which translates to 3 percent of adults receiving such a payment into an account in developing economies, including 2 percent in South Asia. However, in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the share of adults receiving agricultural payments is more than twice the developing economy average of 26 percent, some economies saw a much higher share of recipients receiving agricultural payments into accounts. Sixty-three percent in Kenya, 39 percent in Mali, and 35 percent in Uganda—more than 10 percent of all adults in each of these three countries—reported receiving agricultural payments into an account, most often into a mobile money account (figure 2.1.8). In Kenya and Uganda, the share of all adults who received an agricultural payment into an account remained at about the same level as in 2017. In Mali, the share of adults who did so in 2021 was more than double the share in 2017.