Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions - 1st quintile (poorest) -urban by country
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Contributory Pensions programs (%)
What the numbers show
Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions - 1st quintile (poorest) -urban is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 0.5242 in Moldova; the lowest is 0.0298 in Honduras.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.1334, and the mean is 0.1945.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 18.
Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Colombia (up 44.3%), and the largest decrease in Ecuador (down 53.7%).
Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions - 1st quintile (poorest): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moldova | 0.5242 | 2018 | up 22.4% | rising |
| 2 | Belarus | 0.475 | 2019 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 3 | Ukraine | 0.4699 | 2020 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 4 | Romania | 0.4319 | 2021 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 5 | Serbia | 0.4271 | 2022 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 6 | Armenia | 0.3771 | 2022 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 7 | Poland | 0.3736 | 2019 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 8 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.3484 | 2020 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 0.3198 | 2021 | up 25.9% | rising |
| 10 | Mongolia | 0.3137 | 2020 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 11 | Thailand | 0.202 | 2021 | up 17.6% | rising |
| 12 | Turkey | 0.196 | 2019 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 13 | Chile | 0.1907 | 2022 | up 18.1% | falling |
| 14 | Vietnam | 0.1778 | 2020 | up 38.3% | rising |
| 15 | Uruguay | 0.1439 | 2022 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 16 | Pakistan | 0.1383 | 2018 | up 43.6% | rising |
| 17 | Sri Lanka | 0.1284 | 2019 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 18 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.1269 | 2021 | down 46.0% | falling |
| 19 | Argentina | 0.1143 | 2022 | down 27.7% | falling |
| 20 | Dominican Republic | 0.0893 | 2021 | up 22.4% | falling |
| 21 | Brazil | 0.087 | 2022 | down 34.6% | falling |
| 22 | Panama | 0.0755 | 2023 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 23 | Mexico | 0.0698 | 2022 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 24 | Costa Rica | 0.0688 | 2022 | up 19.7% | falling |
| 25 | Peru | 0.0678 | 2022 | up 7.3% | flat |
| 26 | Bolivia | 0.0545 | 2021 | down 38.9% | flat |
| 27 | South Africa | 0.0521 | 2021 | up 41.1% | rising |
| 28 | Ecuador | 0.051 | 2022 | down 53.7% | falling |
| 29 | El Salvador | 0.0354 | 2022 | down 52.3% | falling |
| 30 | Paraguay | 0.0337 | 2022 | down 7.9% | falling |
| 31 | Colombia | 0.0304 | 2022 | up 44.3% | rising |
| 32 | Honduras | 0.0298 | 2019 | down 45.1% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
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About this data
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Contributory Pensions programs (%)