Nearly 80% of Poles have bank account - report
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As much as 78 percent of Poles owned private bank accounts, according to Global Findex 2014 report compiled by the World Bank.
Compared with other countries form the CEE region, the banking penetration ratio is higher in Poland than in Slovakia (77 percent), Hungary (72 percent), Bulgaria (63 percent) or Romania (61 percent) but the percentage of bank account holders is still higher in the Czech Republic (82 percent), the report indicates.
The report also reads that the percentage of Poles over 15 years old who own a bank account grew by 8 percent in 2014. Young people have been boosting the domestic bank account market in recent years, in Tomasz Dmowski's from Raiffeisen Polbank opinion.
The report has been published since 2011.
