Measuring Our Impact
Women’s Empowerment Data
Global
Global
Africa
Eurasia
Latin America
MESA





Africa
All Africa
DRC
Malawi
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia







Eurasia
All Eurasia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan






Latin America
All Latin America
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras




MESA
All MESA
Jordan
Pakistan



71,455
40%
Female borrowers
The majority of female borrowers are the primary income-earners in their families.
%
#
22,706
13%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
58,676
34%
Households with female as main earner
.
%
#
88,907
56.8%
Businesses run by women
Most of the businesses funded by FINCA in Africa are run by women, ranging from 54% in Tanzania to 61% in Zambia.
%
#
160,447
41%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
205,056
50%
Jobs created by women
Among FINCA clients, women entrepreneurs in Africa create jobs at a slightly higher rate than men.
%
#
7,730
36%
Female borrowers
%
#
2,998
14%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
5,196
24%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
5,735
27.0%
Businesses run by women
%
#
16,355
44%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
6,995
19%
Jobs created by women
%
#
5,340
21%
Female borrowers
%
#
1,946
8%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
3,361
13%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
8,012
31.4%
Businesses run by women
%
#
14,800
32%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
14,756
32%
Jobs created by women
%
#
23,439
40%
Female borrowers
%
#
6,387
11%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
19,692
34%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
33,164
56.6%
Businesses run by women
%
#
56,250
43%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
50,135
38%
Jobs created by women
%
#
73,397
41%
Female borrowers
Kyrgyzstan has the highest female outreach in the region.
%
#
24,590
14%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
52,943
30%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
50,271
39.3%
Businesses run by women
%
#
127,741
41%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
130,953
41%
Jobs created by women
%
#
243,437
40%
Female borrowers
Outreach to women is highest in Latin America and Africa. The results in Afghanistan are also striking, where over half of our borrowers are female.
%
#
80,006
13%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
163,622
27%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
215,565
42.2%
Businesses run by women
%
#
434,967
36%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
504,347
41%
Jobs created by women
This is the total number of employees hired by FINCA's female borrowers.
%
#
11,738
56%
Female borrowers
Second-highest in the world, right after FINCA Haiti.
%
#
1,964
9%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
4,910
24%
Households with female as main earner
Guatemala is exceptional in that most of our female clients are secondary earners.
%
#
33,791
89%
Female borrowers
%
#
9,282
24%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
20,538
54%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
31,365
82.3%
Businesses run by women
%
#
44,209
43%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
90,289
88%
Jobs created by women
%
#
11,121
59%
Female borrowers
%
#
4,441
24%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
8,712
46%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
13,436
71.4%
Businesses run by women
Note that this is higher than the number of female borrowers, because the data are from an Enterprise survey, which is done separately from the household survey.
%
#
28,980
76%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
25,268
66%
Jobs created by women
%
#
24,651
87%
Female borrowers
%
#
1,762
6%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
4,716
17%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
24,358
86.2%
Businesses run by women
%
#
32,497
81%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
34,661
86%
Jobs created by women
%
#
6,578
26%
Female borrowers
%
#
2,307
9%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
4,230
17%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
43,288
53%
Female borrowers
Female outreach in Kyrgyzstan is significantly higher than the region overall (40%).
%
#
10,083
12%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
31,690
39%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
36,524
45.0%
Businesses run by women
%
#
96,586
43%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
109,201
49%
Jobs created by women
%
#
56,650
73%
Female borrowers
%
#
15,687
20%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
34,160
44%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
44,801
78.7%
Businesses run by women
%
#
73,188
54%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
115,557
81%
Jobs created by women
%
#
33,980
41%
Female borrowers
%
#
11,208
14%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
28,019
34%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
47,199
57.0%
Businesses run by women
%
#
88,601
37%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
138,065
58%
Jobs created by women
58% of total jobs created by FINCA Malawi borrowers were created by women.
%
#
41,935
25%
Female borrowers
Women in the MESA region face significant cultural barriers to economic participation and financial inclusion.
%
#
17,022
10%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
17,844
10%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
31,585
18.6%
Businesses run by women
%
#
73,591
23%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
52,781
18%
Jobs created by women
%
#
No data has been collected yet for this indicator in Nigeria.
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1,103
33%
Female borrowers
%
#
17,284
12%
Female borrowers
%
#
15,260
11%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
13,127
9%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
7,227
5.1%
Businesses run by women
%
#
41,094
11%
Women employed by enterprises
The finding that many more men than women are employed by these enterprises reflects local norms which discourage women's work outside the home.
Avg.
#
18,120
5%
Jobs created by women
Women create a proportional share of jobs, indicating that they are not skewed towards any particular sector of activity.
%
#
10,461
40%
Female borrowers
%
#
7,256
28%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
8,465
33%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
2,135
24%
Female borrowers
%
#
734
8%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
1,672
19%
Households with female as main earner
Women are often the main breadwinner -- even if they are not the head-of-household.
%
#
4,743
54.0%
Businesses run by women
Tanzania is one of the few countries where women's business ownership is equal to their share of the overall client base. This means that they are using FINCA loans to run their own independent businesses.
%
#
9,925
47%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
12,256
58%
Jobs created by women
Altogether, women are employing almost 79,235 workers in their FINCA-funded enterprises.
%
#
7,101
38%
Female borrowers
%
#
3,052
16%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
6,410
34%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
3,697
59%
Female borrowers
%
#
1,326
21%
Clients with female-headed household
%
#
2,883
46%
Households with female as main earner
%
#
3,801
61.0%
Businesses run by women
Almost two-thirds of the enterprises funded by FINCA in Zambia are headed by women (61%).
%
#
5,670
58%
Women employed by enterprises
Avg.
#
4,601
47%
Jobs created by women
%
#
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