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Dollar Access Data Center
Official dollar-access data across global institutions and 46 economies, with 226 figures, every number linked to its source.
A dollar wallet is one answer to a much larger story, and that story is already written down in official data. This page gathers the primary records in one place. It is a directory, not an index: Arca does not score or rank countries here. When local money loses value or dollars are hard to reach, people look for a way to hold dollars. These numbers show where and why.
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Global institutions
- Inflation
- Dollar holdings
- Institutional
- Financial access
- Remittances
- Reserves
International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund (IMF)- 4.4% Global headline inflation forecast (reference scenario)
- ~99% Stablecoins denominated in / tied to the US dollar
- 191 members / 195 jurisdictions IMF member countries whose exchange arrangements and FX restrictions are tracked (AREAER)
- 163 economies Economies reporting to the Financial Access Survey (financial inclusion data)
World Bank
The World Bank Group / KNOMAD (Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development)- 1.3B Adults without a financial account (unbanked)
- 79% Adults with an account at a bank, financial institution, or mobile money provider
- $685B Remittances received by low- and middle-income countries
- India $129B, Mexico $68B, China $48B, Philippines $40B, Pakistan $33B Top remittance recipients
- 6.36% (SDG target 3%) Global average cost to send $200 vs 3% SDG 10.c target
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Bank for International Settlements- Fail 3/3 tests BIS assessment: stablecoins fail three tests (singleness, elasticity, integrity) as monetary mainstay
- No par settlement Stablecoins flagged as poorly serving singleness of money (trade at premium/discount by issuer)
- Feasibility confirmed BIS Project Agora confirms tokenised deposits and central bank reserves can settle wholesale cross-border payments
Digital dollar adoption (stablecoins)
No central authority (decentralized; tracked by DefiLlama, a16z, Chainalysis, Castle Island/Visa)- ~$300B Total stablecoin market cap / supply reached in 2025
- $9T Annual stablecoin settlement volume (adjusted, bot-filtered)
- $46T Annual stablecoin transaction volume (raw, unadjusted)
- India #1 (then US, Pakistan, Vietnam, Brazil) Top country in grassroots crypto adoption (151 countries ranked)
- 47% Emerging-market crypto users who cite saving in US dollars as a key use of stablecoins
Figures are dated to the period they cover, with a focus on full-year 2025 and the latest 2026 releases. Official data is often revised, so follow each link for the current version. A dagger marks a figure from a secondary or industry source, used where an official release was not directly available.
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