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by ghaff 3746 days ago
About 8% of US households don't have a bank account. [1] The number seems to be slightly lower in the UK. I believe in some Western European countries it's required to receive government payments so the unbaked rate is lower in those cases.

But the US isn't especially unique.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/