Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) by country

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

Countries reporting
34
Highest
0.3556 <$2.15 a day
Malawi
Lowest
0.0011 <$2.15 a day
Poland
Median
0.039 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
346

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 0.3556 <$2.15 a day in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0011 <$2.15 a day in Poland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.039 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.064 <$2.15 a day.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 329.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 81.7%), and the largest decrease in El Salvador (down 95.0%).

Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -extreme poor: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 0.3556 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 7.8% falling
2 South Africa 0.2621 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 2.5% rising
3 Pakistan 0.1702 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 29.3% falling
4 Armenia 0.1271 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 28.5% falling
5 Burkina Faso 0.1262 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 70.4% volatile
6 Kyrgyzstan 0.1205 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 19.3% falling
7 Georgia 0.1019 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 25.0% flat
8 Honduras 0.0923 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 1.5% falling
9 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0868 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 58.1% volatile
10 Moldova 0.0778 <$2.15 a day 2018 up 34.0% rising
11 Colombia 0.0687 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 6.3% rising
12 Sri Lanka 0.0631 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 7.9% falling
13 Vietnam 0.0513 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 6.6% falling
14 Thailand 0.0486 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 11.9% rising
15 Dominican Republic 0.0476 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 23.2% falling
16 Mongolia 0.0427 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 8.6% falling
17 Romania 0.0414 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 24.0% rising
18 Serbia 0.0365 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 22.7% rising
19 Ecuador 0.0327 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 42.2% falling
20 Paraguay 0.0313 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 13.2% falling
21 Mexico 0.031 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 76.7% volatile
22 Brazil 0.0284 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 61.2% falling
23 Costa Rica 0.0218 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 21.0% falling
24 Bolivia 0.0177 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 67.6% falling
25 Turkey 0.017 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 58.0% volatile
26 Peru 0.0166 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 19.5% falling
27 Argentina 0.0153 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 56.6% falling
28 Panama 0.0094 <$2.15 a day 2023 up 7.9% volatile
29 Uruguay 0.0092 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 59.9% volatile
30 Chile 0.0086 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 78.1% falling
31 Kazakhstan 0.0081 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 81.7% rising
32 Belarus 0.0046 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 62.5% volatile
33 El Salvador 0.0026 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 95.0% falling
34 Poland 0.0011 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 93.1% falling

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
Benefit-cost ratio - All Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day)
Unit
<$2.15 a day
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
35 places, 346 data points, 2002–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Private Transfers programs (%)