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

Comoros, 2024

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Reference ID

COM_2024_FINDEX_v02_M

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Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit

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Jan 05, 2026

Last modified

Jan 05, 2026

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

Data file: Findex_Microdata_2025_updateComoros

Overview

Valid: 465

Invalid: 535

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	43	9.2%
2	Because it's more expensive to pay using a card or phone	12	2.6%
3	Because you don't trust payments using a card or phone	26	5.6%
4	Because you're used to paying by cash	298	64.1%
5	Some other reason	21	4.5%
6	Don't know	60	12.9%
7	Refused	5	1.1%
Sysmiss		535

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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