How many ATMs are there in the world?
How many ATMs are there in the world?
about 3 million
About one ATM for every 2,700 people alive. In much of Africa, mobile money accounts now outnumber bank accounts, so the ATM stage of financial development is being skipped entirely.
There are roughly 3 million cash machines worldwide, a number that peaked around 2018 and has been slowly falling since as card and phone payments displace cash. The density varies more than the totals suggest: South Korea and Canada have over 200 ATMs per 100,000 adults, while much of sub-Saharan Africa has fewer than 10. The decline is not uniform — several developing economies are still installing machines rapidly while Western Europe removes them.
How the figure is arrived at
This is a genuine census rather than an estimate. Central banks report ATM counts to the IMF's Financial Access Survey annually as a regulatory obligation, and the World Bank republishes the series as ATMs per 100,000 adults. Multiply back out by adult population to recover the totals.
How confident it is
- Low estimate
- 2,800,000
- High estimate
- 3,200,000
- Spread
- 1.1× between the bounds
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- How many countries are there in the world? 195 — or 193, or 206, or 249, depending on who is counting
- How many cars are there in the world? about 1.5 billion motor vehicles
- How many planes are in the air right now? roughly 10,000 to 20,000 at any moment
- How many languages are there in the world? about 7,150 living languages
- How many McDonald's are there? about 43,000 in over 100 countries
- How many phones are there in the world? about 8.9 billion mobile connections — more than there are people
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- How many cities are there in the world? about 10,000 with over 50,000 people; 33 megacities over 10 million
- How many buildings are there in the world? somewhere between 1.5 and 4 billion
- How many computers are there in the world? roughly 2 billion personal computers in use
- How many miles of road are there in the world? about 64 million km — roughly 40 million miles
Common questions
- How many ATMs are there in the world?
- about 3 million
- How is that estimated?
- This is a genuine census rather than an estimate. Central banks report ATM counts to the IMF's Financial Access Survey annually as a regulatory obligation, and the World Bank republishes the series as ATMs per 100,000 adults. Multiply back out by adult population to recover the totals.
Related pages
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- How many cars are there in the world? about 1.5 billion motor vehicles
- How many planes are in the air right now? roughly 10,000 to 20,000 at any moment
- How many languages are there in the world? about 7,150 living languages
- How many McDonald's are there? about 43,000 in over 100 countries
- How many phones are there in the world? about 8.9 billion mobile connections — more than there are people
- How many nuclear weapons are there? about 12,200 warheads
- How many websites are there? about 1.1 billion hostnames — but only around 200 million active
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Sources
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (CC BY 4.0)