The Global Findex Database 2025: Connectivity and Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy

Namibia, 2024

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Reference ID

NAM_2024_FINDEX_v02_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/jr44-bd90

Producer(s)

Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

Collection(s)

Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database

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Oct 01, 2025

Last modified

Dec 15, 2025

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Main reason for only using cash for in-store merchant payments (fin25e4)

Data file: Findex_Microdata_2025_updateNamibia

Overview

Valid: 352

Invalid: 648

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 7

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 56

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Because the merchant(s) only accepts cash	35	9.9%
2	Because it's more expensive to pay using a card or phone	25	7.1%
3	Because you don't trust payments using a card or phone	58	16.5%
4	Because you're used to paying by cash	194	55.1%
5	Some other reason	34	9.7%
6	Don't know	3	0.9%
7	Refused	3	0.9%
Sysmiss		648

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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