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bnr data: National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) rw.bnr.payment-systems.quarterly quarterly

Payment System Statistics.

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VERSION v2026-07-04

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COVERAGE 2018 - present

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SOURCE www.bnr.rw

Quarterly statistics on Rwanda's retail payment channels, published by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) and the backbone of the country's digital economy story. Four channels are covered: mobile payment, mobile banking, internet banking, and payment cards. For each channel the series reports transaction volume (number of transactions) and transaction value (in RWF million), alongside adoption metrics such as registered and active mobile subscribers, mobile-money agents, internet and mobile banking subscribers, and the numbers of ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, debit cards and credit cards. Mobile payments dominate: their value grew from about RWF 1.8 trillion in 2018 to RWF 30.1 trillion in 2024, across roughly 2.5 billion transactions. BNR compiles the figures from payment service providers and operators and publishes them as spreadsheets through its /pastat statistics endpoint, from which the pipeline fetches and parses the four channel files each quarter. Note on scope: the mobile payment channel here is the full Mobile Payment Statistics series, covering all transaction types including cash-in and cash-out, and is therefore broader than the narrower mobile money headline reported in the BNR annual report; the two are not directly comparable. Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) is not exposed by this endpoint and is out of scope.

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Mobile payments now move RWF 30 trillion a year: their transaction value grew nearly seventeenfold, from RWF 1.8 trillion in 2018 to RWF 30.1 trillion in 2024.

Payment channels by transaction value · RWF trillion · annual totals, 2018 to 2024

SOURCE: National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) · via National Bank of Rwanda · Payment System Statistics (quarterly) · Updated 2026-07-04

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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
date	date	Calendar quarter-end date (e.g. 2024-12-31 for Q4 2024).	-
channel	string	Payment channel: mobile_payment, mobile_banking, internet_banking, or card.	-
metric	string	transaction_volume, transaction_value, registered_subscribers, active_subscribers, agents, subscribers, atms, pos_terminals, debit_cards, or credit_cards. Not every metric applies to every channel.	-
value	float64	Metric value for the quarter.	-
unit	string	count (transactions, subscribers, agents, terminals, cards) or rwf_mn (transaction value).	-

CITATION · APA 7

National Bank of Rwanda (BNR). (2026). Payment System Statistics [Data set] (Version 2026-07-04). National Bank of Rwanda, distributed by imibare. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.bnr.payment-systems.quarterly