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At the world level, account ownership has reached 76 per cent of the universal population, of which 71 per cent are from developing countries. The average account ownership rate in developing economies rose by eight percentage points, from 63 to 71 per cent, be- tween 2017 and 2021. Further, the gender gap in developing economies in account ownership has shrunk from its long-standing level of 9 to just six percentage points. Millions of individuals around the world are still unbanked despite this development. This study’s primary goal is to evaluate the gender gap in account ownership in South Asian nations. The paper has investigated 6 of the nine South Asian countries polled in 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2021. The study has used secondary data from the Global Findex Database
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