Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) by country
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Private Transfers programs (%)
What the numbers show
Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) is currently reported for 34 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 0.2173 poorest, and the mean is 0.2148 poorest.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 72.
Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 12 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Pakistan | 0.2861 poorest | 2018 | down 9.1% | flat |
| 8 | Dominican Republic | 0.2798 poorest | 2021 | up 44.2% | rising |
| 9 | South Africa | 0.2753 poorest | 2021 | up 26.0% | rising |
| 10 | Mexico | 0.2458 poorest | 2022 | up 9.1% | flat |
| 11 | Belarus | 0.2394 poorest | 2019 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 12 | Mongolia | 0.2376 poorest | 2020 | up 36.2% | rising |
| 13 | Georgia | 0.2359 poorest | 2021 | up 129.2% | rising |
| 14 | Costa Rica | 0.2251 poorest | 2022 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 15 | Paraguay | 0.2239 poorest | 2022 | up 31.0% | rising |
| 16 | Uruguay | 0.2217 poorest | 2022 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 17 | Argentina | 0.218 poorest | 2022 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 18 | Sri Lanka | 0.2166 poorest | 2019 | up 20.6% | rising |
| 19 | Chile | 0.2115 poorest | 2022 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 20 | Vietnam | 0.2073 poorest | 2020 | up 65.7% | rising |
| 21 | Colombia | 0.1957 poorest | 2022 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 22 | Bolivia | 0.1823 poorest | 2021 | up 44.8% | rising |
| 23 | Ecuador | 0.175 poorest | 2022 | down 11.7% | flat |
| 24 | Kazakhstan | 0.1662 poorest | 2021 | up 24.4% | rising |
| 25 | Peru | 0.1629 poorest | 2022 | up 108.8% | rising |
| 26 | Turkey | 0.1579 poorest | 2019 | down 31.0% | falling |
| 27 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.1512 poorest | 2021 | up 20.4% | falling |
| 28 | Panama | 0.1507 poorest | 2023 | down 7.1% | flat |
| 29 | El Salvador | 0.1474 poorest | 2022 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 30 | Brazil | 0.1381 poorest | 2022 | down 32.6% | falling |
| 31 | Honduras | 0.1253 poorest | 2019 | down 12.8% | falling |
| 32 | Burkina Faso | 0.1192 poorest | 2021 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 33 | Malawi | 0.1134 poorest | 2019 | up 54.1% | rising |
| 34 | Poland | 0.0055 poorest | 2019 | down 97.3% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 0.2971 poorest
About this data
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Private Transfers programs (%)