The Global Findex indicators are drawn from survey data collected over the 2011 calen- dar year, covering more than 150,000 adults in 148 economies and representing about 97 percent of the world’s population. The survey was carried out by Gallup, Inc. in as- sociation with its annual Gallup World Poll, which since 2005 has surveyed about 1,000 people annually in each of up to 157 economies, 3 using randomly selected, nationally representative samples. 4 The target population is the entire civilian, noninstitutional- ized population age 15 and above. Surveys are conducted in the major languages of each economy. (For details on the data collection dates,.
