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Homepage > News > Business > Germany, Rwanda boost digital ID schemes; Bhutan shares its success The drive to global digital identity adoption picked up pace this week, as Germany’s BundID announced 2 million logins per month, Rwanda revealed more than 3,300 registrations for its upcoming digital ID card, and Bhutan’s digital ID provider partnered with U.S.-firm iDen2 to export the lessons from the country’s successful scheme. German swings and roundabouts The latest data from the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung, or BMDS) contained good and bad news for the country’s “BundID” digital ID scheme. As reported by the AFP news agency on August 23, the BMDS revealed that the number of BundID users had dropped from just under 5.3 million in December 2024 and 6 million in March 2025, to around 4.9 million active accounts by August. “The decline in the number of user accounts can be explained by the automatic deletion of inactive accounts in the first quarter of 2025,” a Ministry spokesperson told AFP. They added that “due to data protection regulations, user accounts must be deleted after 24 months of inactivity.” However, this drop may appear worse than it is, as the fall in users was likely related to accounts opened by pupils and students in 2023, when the BundID required them to receive a 200-euro one-off payment as compensation for the rise in energy prices. The data also showed some positive signs: since May 2025, the number of users has steadily risen again, increasing by around 500k over the past few months. However, an even stronger indicator of progress was that the number of users per month has doubled since 2024, with average logins increasing from around one to two million per month. The BundID is a…

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