Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa Leads the World in Mobile Money With 277 Million Registered - Gsma

A new report by the global organization for mobile companies, GSMA, says sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than half of all mobile money deployments in the world, and is pioneering a range of new mobile money use cases.

The report notes that there were 277 million registered mobile money accounts across sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2016.

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