This Overview Survey presents a snapshot of the microfinance sector from
2018-2019, before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, since the
data was collected during the summer 2020, this report is being published
post-pandemic. This leads to a special result since the report can be seen as
the most recent data available on the European microfinance sector before it
was hit by the pandemic. Nevertheless, for this reason, the report also includes
a chapter on the preliminary impact of the pandemic in 2020.
This is the 9th edition of this Overview Survey for the European Microfinance
Network (EMN), and the third time it was carried out in collaboration with the
Microfinance Centre (MFC). The collaboration between these two networks
allows the survey to cover the lion’s share of the European microfinance sector,
delivering the most complete dataset available at this time.
The study covered 143 institutions from 29 countries and captures data for
2018-2019 time period.