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 (%)
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Kosovo 0.0647 <$2.15 a day
About this data
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Private Transfers programs (%)