Since then, the Grameen Bank model has been duplicated in more than 100 countries. Today, the bank has 6.61 million borrowers and over 2,400 branches in over 80,000 villages in Bangladesh. Recently the bank started a program to give beggars lines of credit of about 9 to purchase small items such as bread,candy,pickles, and toys. Receivers of the loans then resell the goods to supplement their begging. The bank reports that it has lent 6.55 billion over the past 30 years and claims a high repayment rate-98 percent. Nowadays Grameen Bank are also in developed countries. One hundred women in Queens, New York, were among the first borrowers of Grameen America. The total number of borrowers worldwide is 7.84 million, 97 percent of whom are women.