digital in-store merchant payment

Digital in-store merchant payments

Nearly all adults in developing economies (96 percent) who made a digital merchant payment did so in-store. Much like overall digital merchant payments, 36 percent of adults in developing economies made a digital in-store payment, but this average is heavy skewed by the use of such payments in China (79 percent). In developing economies, excluding China, 19 percent of adults made a digital in-store merchant payment, with 7 percent of adults (about 40 percent of digital in-store merchant payment users) making their first such payment after the onset of the pandemic (figure 2.1.16).

FIGURE 2.1.16 In developing economies, excluding China, one in five adults made a digital in-store merchant payment

Adults with an account (%), 2021

Made digital in-store merchant payments for the first time after the start of COVID-19 Made digital in-store merchant payments, but not for the first time after the start of COVID-19 Did not make digital in-store merchant payments

Source: Global Findex Database 2021.