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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 3 Number of active borrowers of microcredit

From: Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: from microcredit to microfinance

 

Number of microcredit institutions

Actives borrowers (millions)

Regions

  

Sub-Saharan Africa

1,009

12.7

Asia and the Pacific

1,746

169.1

Latin America and the Caribbean

647

13.8

Middle East and North Africa

91

4.3

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

73

5.2

North America and Western Europe

86

0.2

Total

3,652

205.3

  1. Source: State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2012 (Maes and Reed 2012).