Technology
Access to internet, computers, and mobile phones, as well as knowledge of digital or technical skills allow women to access information, education, health resources, and more jobs.
Use of a mobile phone or the internet to access an account by sex and income group
% of population ages 15+
Use of a mobile phone or the internet to pay bills in the past year by sex and income group
Female share of graduates (% of total graduates in the given field of tertiary education)
Indicators
- Account ownership at a financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider (% of population ages 15+)
- Borrowed any money from a formal financial institution or using a mobile money account (% age 15+)
- Made a digital in-store merchant payment: using a mobile phone (% age 15+)
- Made digital payments in the past year (% age 15+)
- Made or received digital payments in the past year (% age 15+)
- Mobile money account (% age 15+)
- Received digital payments in the past year (% age 15+)
- Saved at a financial institution or using a mobile money account (% age 15+)
- Saved money using a mobile money account (% age 15+)
- Share of graduates by field, female (%)
- Share of graduates in Information and Communication Technologies programmes, female (%)
- Used a mobile phone or the internet to access an account (% with an account, age 15+)
- Used a mobile phone or the internet to buy something online in the past year(% age 15+)
- Used a mobile phone or the internet to pay bills in the past year (% age 15+)
- Used a mobile phone or the internet to send money (% age 15+)
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