Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -1st quintile (poorest) 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) is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 0.4805 poorest in Moldova; the lowest is 0.0085 poorest in Honduras.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.1445 poorest, and the mean is 0.1833 poorest.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 57.
Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Peru (up 80.2%), and the largest decrease in Ecuador (down 60.4%).
Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -1st quintile: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moldova | 0.4805 poorest | 2018 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 2 | Belarus | 0.4626 poorest | 2019 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 3 | Ukraine | 0.4598 poorest | 2020 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 4 | Serbia | 0.4019 poorest | 2022 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 5 | Romania | 0.3879 poorest | 2021 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 6 | Poland | 0.3667 poorest | 2019 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 7 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.3645 poorest | 2020 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 8 | Armenia | 0.3494 poorest | 2022 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 0.3333 poorest | 2021 | up 43.2% | rising |
| 10 | Mongolia | 0.3218 poorest | 2020 | up 18.0% | rising |
| 11 | Chile | 0.2052 poorest | 2022 | up 28.7% | flat |
| 12 | Turkey | 0.196 poorest | 2019 | up 25.2% | rising |
| 13 | Thailand | 0.171 poorest | 2021 | up 39.9% | rising |
| 14 | Sri Lanka | 0.1559 poorest | 2019 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 15 | Pakistan | 0.1502 poorest | 2018 | up 33.5% | rising |
| 16 | Uruguay | 0.149 poorest | 2022 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 17 | Vietnam | 0.14 poorest | 2020 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 18 | Argentina | 0.1143 poorest | 2022 | down 27.7% | falling |
| 19 | Brazil | 0.0896 poorest | 2022 | down 23.4% | falling |
| 20 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.0894 poorest | 2021 | down 32.9% | falling |
| 21 | Dominican Republic | 0.0861 poorest | 2021 | up 15.7% | falling |
| 22 | Costa Rica | 0.0642 poorest | 2022 | up 38.2% | falling |
| 23 | Mexico | 0.0522 poorest | 2022 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 24 | Peru | 0.0496 poorest | 2022 | up 80.2% | rising |
| 25 | South Africa | 0.0439 poorest | 2021 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 26 | Panama | 0.0413 poorest | 2023 | up 64.1% | rising |
| 27 | Bolivia | 0.035 poorest | 2021 | down 8.9% | rising |
| 28 | Ecuador | 0.031 poorest | 2022 | down 60.4% | falling |
| 29 | El Salvador | 0.0295 poorest | 2022 | down 39.1% | falling |
| 30 | Colombia | 0.02 poorest | 2022 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 31 | Paraguay | 0.0159 poorest | 2022 | down 0.2% | falling |
| 32 | Honduras | 0.0085 poorest | 2019 | down 50.5% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 0.3473 poorest
About this data
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Contributory Pensions programs (%)