Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers by country

Percentage of benefits going to the second quintile relative to the total benefits going to the population

Countries reporting
33
Highest
17.6%
Thailand
Lowest
6.7%
Malawi
Median
14.5%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
346

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 17.6% in Thailand; the lowest is 6.7% in Malawi.

The median across all reporting countries is 14.5%, and the mean is 13.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Vietnam (up 252.1%), and the largest decrease in Brazil (down 42.9%).

Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
2 Thailand 17.6% 2021 up 15.3% rising
3 Costa Rica 17.0% 2022 up 59.2% rising
4 Serbia 16.8% 2022 up 41.4% rising
5 Uruguay 16.6% 2022 up 20.7% rising
6 Peru 16.3% 2022 up 38.5% rising
7 Vietnam 16.2% 2020 up 252.1% rising
8 Mexico 16.2% 2022 down 7.9% falling
9 Ecuador 16.1% 2022 up 22.7% rising
10 Paraguay 16.1% 2022 up 6.4% rising
11 Argentina 15.9% 2022 up 20.4% rising
12 Moldova 15.9% 2018 up 16.5% rising
13 Dominican Republic 15.8% 2021 up 26.0% rising
14 Belarus 15.8% 2019 down 0.6% flat
15 Chile 15.6% 2022 up 16.2% rising
16 Panama 15.3% 2023 down 33.9% falling
17 Colombia 14.6% 2022 up 0.0% flat
18 Georgia 14.5% 2021 up 196.4% rising
19 El Salvador 14.2% 2022 up 19.3% rising
20 Bolivia 13.4% 2021 up 37.0% rising
21 Romania 13.3% 2021 up 46.0% rising
22 Honduras 11.7% 2019 down 14.0% flat
23 Burkina Faso 11.5% 2021 up 40.2% flat
24 Armenia 11.4% 2022 down 37.9% falling
25 Kyrgyzstan 11.1% 2020 down 19.1% flat
26 Poland 11.1% 2019 down 3.1% rising
27 Brazil 11.0% 2022 down 42.9% flat
28 Pakistan 10.3% 2018 up 7.7% rising
29 Sri Lanka 10.0% 2019 up 22.4% flat
30 Turkey 9.8% 2019 down 30.9% falling
31 Mongolia 9.6% 2020 down 12.9% flat
32 Cote d'Ivoire 9.2% 2021 down 11.8% falling
33 Kazakhstan 8.6% 2021 down 27.3% falling
34 Malawi 6.7% 2019 down 16.8% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
35 places, 346 data points, 2002–2023
Last refreshed

Percentage of benefits going to the second quintile relative to the total benefits going to the population