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Only 21 percent of Hondurans has a bank account

Wednesday, August 7, 2013


Some 1.6 million, of Honduras's 8.5 million population, have a bank account, most of which are men.

The information comes from a recent study by the World Bank, which concluded that only 21 percent of Hondurans have a bank account.

The report shows that up to 2011, 8 percent of account holders used it to receive their wages, 2 percent for government payments and 4 percent to receive remittances.



Source (in Spanish): El Heraldo