| Country | # Loans | % |
| United States | 1,603,062 | 70.1% |
| Canada | 200,554 | 8.8% |
| United Kingdom | 78,735 | 3.4% |
| Australia | 66,319 | 2.9% |
| Germany | 44,815 | 2.0% |
| Netherlands | 39,575 | 1.7% |
| France | 29,479 | 1.3% |
| Norway | 28,039 | 1.1% |
| Sweden | 21,905 | 1.0% |
| Belgium | 21,756 | 1.0% |
The list is kind of what you would expect for an organization based in America, and mostly in English. But there are a few surprises. Since the lender's country is self-reported, there is certainly some bad data. For example, Antarctica is #91, with 62 loans from two people. The oddest result is Christmas Island, #24 with 3,408 loans, between Poland and United Arab Emirates. However, all of these loans are from one person, and based on his lender page I think
it's safe to say he's not from Christmas Island. It's interesting how much a single person can affect some of the metrics. With a minimum of $25 per loan, this is over $85,000 from a single lender! (More of top lenders later...)
Over 3,000 loans from a single lender. That is unfathomable to me. Cool post though. :)
ReplyDeleteThe info. you have up is amazing! I'm doing a senior thesis on micro-lending, trying to find the developing nations that are least risky to lend to. So far, Kiva seems to be the only site that I've found that has a large amount of transparent public information....do you know of any other micro-lending sites that also have data like this?
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ReplyDeleteReally like the facts.
ReplyDeleteDo you know where this data was from or if there is more up to date data on the subject?
@Dan: Thanks. All of my data comes from Kiva, they release a lot of information through APIs and data snapshots, see build.kiva.org for more details. Several months after this post the lender changed his profile; Christmas Island is no longer one of the top lending countries.
ReplyDeleteThe % per country is not representing the statistics well.
ReplyDeleteA list of current country population divided by the number of loans would be better. active small populated counties will show up better against larger inactive counties.
The US is approx 7 times as active as the UK but 5 times as active as Belgium, using above Idea
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