Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Contributory Pensions by country

Average transfer amount of Contributory Pensions programs among program beneficiaries (per capita, daily $ppp)

Countries reporting
32
Highest
36.15
Uruguay
Lowest
3.45
Cote d'Ivoire
Median
14.35
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 36.15 in Uruguay; the lowest is 3.45 in Cote d'Ivoire.

The median across all reporting countries is 14.35, and the mean is 15.65.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 272.7%), and the largest decrease in Serbia (down 13.2%).

Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Contribut: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uruguay 36.15 2022 up 31.2% rising
2 Thailand 33.86 2021 up 28.5% rising
3 Poland 29.33 2019 up 42.5% rising
4 Costa Rica 27.83 2022 up 36.6% rising
5 Panama 25.46 2023 down 6.3% rising
6 Brazil 23.48 2022 up 8.1% rising
7 South Africa 22.66 2021 up 0.3% rising
8 Romania 22.41 2021 up 82.5% rising
9 Argentina 20.77 2022 up 19.8% rising
10 Turkey 20.73 2019 up 66.0% rising
11 Colombia 20.39 2022 up 8.3% rising
12 Bolivia 20.03 2021 up 102.1% rising
13 Paraguay 16.49 2022 up 0.4% rising
14 Mexico 15.85 2022 up 10.6% rising
15 Chile 14.51 2022 up 26.4% rising
16 Kazakhstan 14.4 2021 up 272.7% volatile
17 Belarus 14.3 2019 up 90.0% rising
18 Ecuador 13.98 2022 up 1.7% rising
19 Serbia 13.3 2022 down 13.2% flat
20 Dominican Republic 11.53 2021 up 35.2% rising
21 El Salvador 10.44 2022 up 20.8% rising
22 Ukraine 9.6 2020 up 3.4% flat
23 Vietnam 9.39 2020 up 64.0% rising
24 Honduras 8.28 2019 down 2.4% rising
25 Mongolia 8.13 2020 up 148.5% rising
26 Moldova 7.45 2018 up 52.5% rising
27 Peru 7.09 2022 up 10.2% rising
28 Sri Lanka 6.33 2019 up 16.1% rising
29 Kyrgyzstan 4.64 2020 up 29.4% rising
30 Pakistan 4.57 2018 up 83.2% rising
31 Armenia 3.96 2022 up 21.7% rising
32 Cote d'Ivoire 3.45 2021 up 11.8% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Contributory Pensions
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
33 places, 342 data points, 2002–2023
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Average transfer amount of Contributory Pensions programs among program beneficiaries (per capita, daily $ppp)