Did You Know? Bhutan Was The World’s First Country To Start Using India’s UPI

At a time when India is conducting billions of UPI transactions every month, the digital revolution’s popularity is growing day by day in foreign nations as well. After France’s iconic Eiffel Tower started adopting UPI earlier this month, Sri Lanka and Mauritius became the latest countries to say yes to India’s UPI this week.

At present, more than 40 countries have either already started or have said yes to soon adopt and launch India's UPI in their respective nations. But do you know which was the world’s first country to begin using India’s UPI??

Which Was The World’s First Country To Start Using India’s UPI?

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In July 2021, India's FM Nirmala Sitharaman, along with her Bhutan counterpart Lyonpo Namgay Tshering, jointly launched BHIM–UPI in India's neighbor nation.?While speaking on the occasion, FM Sitharaman said that the services have started in Bhutan under India's neighbourhood first policy and India is proud of our achievement and feel pleasure in sharing it with our valued neighbour.?

As per press release by Ministry of External Affairs at that time, "Bhutan is the first country to adopt UPI standards for its QR deployment, and the first country in our immediate neighbourhood to accept mobile based payments through the BHIM App."

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India's Finance Minister Sitharaman said that BHIM UPI is one of the brightest spot and an achievement for digital transactions in India during the time of COVID-19 pandemic with more than 100 million UPI QRs have been created in last 5 years and BHIM UPI in 2020-21 has processed 22 billion transactions worth value Rs 41 lakh crore. The Finance Minister of Bhutan, Lyonpo Namgay Tshering, thanked and appreciated the Government of India for the launch of BHIM-UPI services in Bhutan and added that the bond between the two countries has become stronger each passing day.

List Of 40+ Countries Adopting India's UPI

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After Bhutan became the world's first country to start using India's digital payment revolution UPI, more than 40 countries have either already started using UPI or have said yes to soon adopt it.

1.Bhutan

2.Oman

3.France

4.Nepal

5.UK

6.UAE

7.Singapore

8.Malaysia

9.Thailand

10.Hong Kong

11.Philippines

12.South Korea?

13. Japan

14.Indonesia

15.Vietnam

16.Sri Lanka

17.Egypt

18.USA

19.Mauritius

20.Australia

21.Saudi Arabia

22.Qatar

23.Austria

24.Belgium

25.Croatia

26.Cyprus

27.Estonia

28.Finland

29.Germany

30.Greece

31.Ireland

32.Italy

33.Latvia

34.Lithuania

35.Luxembourg

36.Malta

37.Netherlands

38.Portugal

39.Slovakia

40.Slovenia

41.Spain

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