India, July 27 -- The Global Findex Database is a demand-side survey on financial inclusion run by the World Bank every three years to track how adults around the world access and use financial services. The latest survey findings released in 2025 are based on information collected from 1.45 lakh adults across 141 countries.

In India, almost 90% of women have ownership to a formal bank account, as reported in the 2025 Findex findings. This is an improvement from the 78% women with a bank account, as revealed from the 2021 Findex data. Further, there has been a decline in the inactive accounts for Indian women - in 2021, 32% women had inactive accounts and, by 2025, this had fallen to 18%. Account ownership is an important step for advanc...