Microfinance Investment by Country Heat Map

October 1, 2009 @ 2:27 am · Filed under Economics, Information Visualization, Microfinance · Written by Karthik Narayanaswami

Lately, I’ve been playing around with some fun MFI data from around the world. In particular, I was curious to see what the Gross Loan Portfolio across various microfinance institutions were, and how they aggregated within each country of operation.

Luckily, I was able to source some rather excellent data from MIX Market.

Given this (and the fact that I’ve been playing around with Google’s Chart API for a while), I went ahead and created a little heat map of the global MFI rankings by Gross Loan Portfolio:

Heat Map of Global MFI Gross Loan Portfolio Rankings

If you look at the above map, those countries with higher portfolios are in a darker shade of green and those with lower portfolios are in a lighter shade of green.

The list of the top all countries with more than 1% of the global MFI Gross Loan Portfolio is also listed below.

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