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60 Decibels Microfinance Index

Explore four years of global microfinance insights, from 2022 to 2025. Each edition of the Index offers a look at client outcomes, trends in financial inclusion, and how financial service providers are evolving to better serve their clients — all grounded in direct feedback from tens of thousands of borrowers globally.

Excerpt from The Microfinance Index 2025 by 60 Decibels.

The 2025 MFI Index includes data from more than 85 participating financial service providers (FSPs) and is supported by 21 Partners. Now in its fourth year, the 2025 Microfinance Index has surveyed 24,450+ microfinance clients in 39 countries representing 25 million people globally, with deeper dives into client protection, gender impact, and climate resilience. The 2025 survey gathers quantitative and qualitative data along six key dimensions of impact, including Access, Loan Product Impact, Household Impact, Client Protection, Resilience, and Agency.