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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 (%)

Countries reporting
34
Highest
0.1172 <$2.15 a day
Kyrgyzstan
Lowest
0.0001 <$2.15 a day
Paraguay
Median
0.0332 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
347

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 34 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 0.0332 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.0341 <$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 23 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.0519 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 49.9% volatile
12 Kosovo 0.0519 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 49.9% volatile
14 Sri Lanka 0.0462 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 10.9% falling
15 South Africa 0.0419 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 31.1% rising
16 Kazakhstan 0.0403 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 202.0% volatile
17 Thailand 0.0384 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 11.4% rising
18 Turkey 0.028 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 29.9% falling
19 Vietnam 0.0185 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 44.1% volatile
20 Brazil 0.0114 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 56.0% volatile
21 Chile 0.0102 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 32.8% volatile
22 Uruguay 0.0058 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 7.0% volatile
23 Colombia 0.0048 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 17.1% rising
24 Honduras 0.0046 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 51.3% volatile
25 Ecuador 0.0042 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 78.4% volatile
26 Argentina 0.0039 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 89.2% volatile
27 Peru 0.0039 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 12.7% falling
28 Dominican Republic 0.0038 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 70.1% volatile
29 Costa Rica 0.0029 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 62.3% volatile
30 Mexico 0.0029 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 88.0% volatile
31 Panama 0.0016 <$2.15 a day 2023 down 16.0% falling
32 Bolivia 0.0003 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 96.3% volatile
33 El Salvador 0.0002 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 97.3% volatile
34 Paraguay 0.0001 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 87.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day)
Unit
<$2.15 a day
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
34 places, 347 data points, 2002–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Contributory Pensions programs (%)