Microfinance Fast Facts

• Total estimated microfinance loans outstanding: $35 billion (CGAP)
• Total estimated microfinance customers: 154 million (MicroCredit Summit)
• Total estimated potential customers: 1.5 billion (CGAP)
• Total number of microfinance institutions eligible for commercial funding: 250 (CGAP)
• Total estimated investment by microfinance investment funds (MIVs): $13 billion (IAMFI)
• Estimated compound annual growth rate of MIV investment: 79% (CGAP, 2004-2008)
• Number of MIVs: 109 (IAMFI)
• Percent debt deals: 67% (IAMFI)         
• Percent equity deals: 30% (IAMFI)
• Percent guarantees: 3% (IAMFI)
• Microfinance funding gap to meet demand: $265 billion (CGAP)