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Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) by country

Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Private Transfers programs (%)

Countries reporting
36
Highest
0.3989 poorest
Moldova
Lowest
0.0055 poorest
Poland
Median
0.2198 poorest
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
351

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 0.3989 poorest in Moldova; the lowest is 0.0055 poorest in Poland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2198 poorest, and the mean is 0.2194 poorest.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 72.

Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Georgia (up 129.2%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 97.3%).

Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -1st quintile: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Moldova 0.3989 poorest 2018 up 59.2% rising
2 Thailand 0.3392 poorest 2021 up 10.5% rising
3 Serbia 0.3316 poorest 2022 up 14.7% rising
4 Romania 0.3172 poorest 2021 up 53.0% rising
5 Armenia 0.3053 poorest 2022 down 19.3% falling
6 Kyrgyzstan 0.2979 poorest 2020 up 9.7% rising
7 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.2971 poorest 2017 down 11.7% falling
7 Kosovo 0.2971 poorest 2017 down 11.7% falling
9 Pakistan 0.2861 poorest 2018 down 9.1% flat
10 Dominican Republic 0.2798 poorest 2021 up 44.2% rising
11 South Africa 0.2753 poorest 2021 up 26.0% rising
12 Mexico 0.2458 poorest 2022 up 9.1% flat
13 Belarus 0.2394 poorest 2019 up 8.3% rising
14 Mongolia 0.2376 poorest 2020 up 36.2% rising
15 Georgia 0.2359 poorest 2021 up 129.2% rising
16 Costa Rica 0.2251 poorest 2022 up 46.7% rising
17 Paraguay 0.2239 poorest 2022 up 31.0% rising
18 Uruguay 0.2217 poorest 2022 up 29.1% rising
19 Argentina 0.218 poorest 2022 down 16.4% falling
20 Sri Lanka 0.2166 poorest 2019 up 20.6% rising
21 Chile 0.2115 poorest 2022 down 7.8% falling
22 Vietnam 0.2073 poorest 2020 up 65.7% rising
23 Colombia 0.1957 poorest 2022 up 4.7% rising
24 Bolivia 0.1823 poorest 2021 up 44.8% rising
25 Ecuador 0.175 poorest 2022 down 11.7% flat
26 Kazakhstan 0.1662 poorest 2021 up 24.4% rising
27 Peru 0.1629 poorest 2022 up 108.8% rising
28 Turkey 0.1579 poorest 2019 down 31.0% falling
29 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1512 poorest 2021 up 20.4% falling
30 Panama 0.1507 poorest 2023 down 7.1% flat
31 El Salvador 0.1474 poorest 2022 down 20.5% falling
32 Brazil 0.1381 poorest 2022 down 32.6% falling
33 Honduras 0.1253 poorest 2019 down 12.8% falling
34 Burkina Faso 0.1192 poorest 2021 down 2.7% falling
35 Malawi 0.1134 poorest 2019 up 54.1% rising
36 Poland 0.0055 poorest 2019 down 97.3% falling

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -1st quintile (poorest)
Unit
poorest
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 351 data points, 2002–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Private Transfers programs (%)