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Cambodia
Cambodia issues a biometric ID card in a new format from April 2025 and is building a population identification system and the CamDigiKey login. Its Bakong payment system is described by the central bank as a quasi-CBDC. A personal data protection law was still in draft in 2025.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Cambodia
- Program
- National Identity Card; Integrated Population Identification System (IPIS); CamDigiKey
- Status
- Being built or piloted
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- Law on Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identification 2023; Sub-Decree No. 47/2025
Sub-Decree No. 47/2025 (April 2025) set a new ID card format with biometric data and a QR code. IPIS will give each person a lifelong Khmer Identification Code, but nationwide rollout dates have not been confirmed. CamDigiKey lets users log in to government services. A draft Law on Personal Data Protection was released in July 2025 and is not yet binding.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Pilot
- Name
- Bakong
Bakong launched in October 2020 on Hyperledger Iroha. The central bank calls it a quasi-CBDC. By 2023 it reported 19.5 million accounts. A tourist app was soft-launched in August 2024.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2025-07Courts & law
A draft Law on Personal Data Protection was published; it is not yet in force. SEAP (Nationality for All) — Cambodia digital ID overview ↗
- 2025-04Rolling it out
Sub-Decree 47/2025 introduced the new biometric ID card format. SEAP (Nationality for All) — Cambodia digital ID overview ↗
- 2024-08Rolling it out
The central bank soft-launched the Bakong Tourists app. Human Rights Foundation CBDC Tracker — Cambodia ↗
- 2023Rolling it out
The Law on Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identification was passed. SEAP (Nationality for All) — Cambodia digital ID overview ↗
UN and WHO
How Cambodia has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 65.3 · rank 108 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 2
Sovereignty score
How the -1 adds up
- -1Running a CBDC pilot source ↗
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