Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) by country
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Contributory Pensions programs (%)
What the numbers show
Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 0.1172 <$2.15 a day in Kyrgyzstan; the lowest is 0.0001 <$2.15 a day in Paraguay.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0232 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.033 <$2.15 a day.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,740.
Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 202.0%), and the largest decrease in El Salvador (down 97.3%).
Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.1172 <$2.15 a day | 2020 | up 8.4% | falling |
| 2 | Armenia | 0.0979 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 18.3% | flat |
| 3 | Moldova | 0.0816 <$2.15 a day | 2018 | up 8.4% | flat |
| 4 | Pakistan | 0.0776 <$2.15 a day | 2018 | up 17.5% | flat |
| 5 | Romania | 0.0717 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 6 | Serbia | 0.0654 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | up 35.3% | rising |
| 7 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.0572 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | down 72.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Ukraine | 0.0559 <$2.15 a day | 2020 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 9 | Poland | 0.053 <$2.15 a day | 2019 | down 5.3% | falling |
| 10 | Mongolia | 0.0529 <$2.15 a day | 2020 | down 25.6% | falling |
| 11 | Belarus | 0.0522 <$2.15 a day | 2019 | down 39.5% | falling |
| 12 | Sri Lanka | 0.0462 <$2.15 a day | 2019 | down 10.9% | falling |
| 13 | South Africa | 0.0419 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | up 31.1% | rising |
| 14 | Kazakhstan | 0.0403 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | up 202.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Thailand | 0.0384 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 16 | Turkey | 0.028 <$2.15 a day | 2019 | up 29.9% | falling |
| 17 | Vietnam | 0.0185 <$2.15 a day | 2020 | down 44.1% | volatile |
| 18 | Brazil | 0.0114 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 56.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Chile | 0.0102 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 32.8% | volatile |
| 20 | Uruguay | 0.0058 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 7.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Colombia | 0.0048 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 22 | Honduras | 0.0046 <$2.15 a day | 2019 | down 51.3% | volatile |
| 23 | Ecuador | 0.0042 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 78.4% | volatile |
| 24 | Argentina | 0.0039 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 89.2% | volatile |
| 25 | Peru | 0.0039 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | up 12.7% | falling |
| 26 | Dominican Republic | 0.0038 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | down 70.1% | volatile |
| 27 | Costa Rica | 0.0029 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | up 62.3% | volatile |
| 28 | Mexico | 0.0029 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 88.0% | volatile |
| 29 | Panama | 0.0016 <$2.15 a day | 2023 | down 16.0% | falling |
| 30 | Bolivia | 0.0003 <$2.15 a day | 2021 | down 96.3% | volatile |
| 31 | El Salvador | 0.0002 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 97.3% | volatile |
| 32 | Paraguay | 0.0001 <$2.15 a day | 2022 | down 87.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 0.0519 <$2.15 a day
About this data
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Contributory Pensions programs (%)