Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Other Social Assistance by country

Percentage of program beneficiaries in a quintile relative to the total number of beneficiaries in the population

Countries reporting
27
Highest
24.6%
Paraguay
Lowest
4.5%
Kyrgyzstan
Median
20.8%
Years covered
19
2005–2023
Data points
257

What the numbers show

Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Other Social Assistance is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 24.6% in Paraguay; the lowest is 4.5% in Kyrgyzstan.

The median across all reporting countries is 20.8%, and the mean is 19.7%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 5.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Viet Nam (up 160.0%), and the largest decrease in Kyrgyzstan (down 77.4%).

Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Other Social Assistance: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Paraguay 24.6% 2015 rising
2 Moldova 24.1% 2018 up 24.8% rising
3 Argentina 23.9% 2022 down 18.7% rising
4 Chile 23.6% 2022 up 14.7% rising
5 El Salvador 23.1% 2022 up 3.7% rising
6 Ukraine 22.9% 2020 up 4.7% flat
7 Türkiye 22.7% 2019 up 18.3% rising
8 Ecuador 22.1% 2017 up 3.9% flat
9 Kazakhstan 21.6% 2021 up 9.8% rising
10 Indonesia 21.6% 2022 up 8.2% rising
11 Poland 21.2% 2019 up 1.3% flat
12 Viet Nam 21.0% 2020 up 160.0% rising
13 Peru 20.9% 2022 up 31.8% rising
14 South Africa 20.8% 2021 up 27.8% rising
15 Panama 20.6% 2023 up 6.1% flat
16 Costa Rica 20.2% 2022 down 3.4% flat
17 Thailand 20.1% 2021 down 16.1% falling
18 Honduras 20.1% 2019 down 10.7% falling
19 Mexico 19.7% 2022 down 8.1% falling
20 Brazil 19.5% 2019 down 2.3% falling
21 Mongolia 19.2% 2020 down 4.9% flat
22 Belarus 19.0% 2019 down 5.2% flat
23 Russia 17.8% 2017 up 2.6% flat
24 Uruguay 17.4% 2022 down 4.6% rising
25 Armenia 14.4% 2022 down 12.3% falling
26 Romania 6.3% 2019 down 49.5% falling
27 Kyrgyzstan 4.5% 2020 down 77.4% rising

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Indicator
Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Other Social Assistance
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
27 places, 257 data points, 2005–2023
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Percentage of program beneficiaries in a quintile relative to the total number of beneficiaries in the population