2005 MIX Global 100: MFI League Tables

These global rankings of MFIs, released at the Microcredit Summit 2006, highlight the performance of the leading 100 microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide in six areas of performance: outreach, scale, profitability, efficiency, productivity, portfolio quality.Close to 300 MFIs made it at least into one of the 2005 MIX Global 100: MFI League Tables. Leaders in their markets are categorized according to outreach, scale, profitability, efficiency, productivity, portfolio quality. Close to 10% of MFIs appeared as leaders across four or more categories, while three individual MFIs showed exceptional results across all categories, making it in all six 2005 MIX Global 100: MFI League Tables: ASA in Bangladesh, and FMM Popay¡n and WWB Cali in Columbia.Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the Middle East and North Africa were represented in 2005 MIX Global 100: MFI League Tables, and all had at least one MFI in the top 100 in each category. For all characteristics, the dispersion was great, even among the leaders. Asian MFIs lead the way in terms of outreach due to four very large microfinance institutions reaching more than 3 million borrowers each, although Latin America was home to a third of all identified top MFIs. The top MFI in terms of profitability was in Africa, with MFIs from Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Eastern Europe following.