Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
32
Highest
25.7%
Belarus
Lowest
2.0%
South Africa
Median
11.0%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 25.7% in Belarus; the lowest is 2.0% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 11.0%, and the mean is 12.7%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 13.

Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Paraguay (up 47.3%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 58.3%).

Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Belarus 25.7% 2019 up 12.0% rising
2 Romania 25.1% 2021 up 11.5% rising
3 Serbia 24.4% 2022 up 22.7% rising
4 Moldova 23.9% 2018 up 6.2% flat
5 Poland 22.3% 2019 up 3.5% flat
6 Ukraine 20.7% 2020 down 0.2% flat
7 Armenia 20.6% 2022 up 9.7% rising
8 Mongolia 18.8% 2020 down 5.2% flat
9 Kyrgyzstan 17.5% 2020 down 3.7% flat
10 Turkey 17.3% 2019 up 17.6% rising
11 Kazakhstan 16.5% 2021 down 4.2% falling
12 Chile 15.1% 2022 down 4.6% falling
13 Vietnam 14.7% 2020 up 44.1% rising
14 Uruguay 14.0% 2022 up 4.4% rising
15 Argentina 12.9% 2022 up 6.1% falling
16 Brazil 11.4% 2022 down 20.4% falling
17 Sri Lanka 10.6% 2019 up 8.8% flat
18 Pakistan 10.1% 2018 down 13.4% falling
19 Thailand 10.1% 2021 up 41.0% rising
20 Dominican Republic 8.1% 2021 down 2.5% falling
21 Mexico 7.8% 2022 up 11.3% rising
22 Costa Rica 7.5% 2022 down 7.2% falling
23 Bolivia 7.4% 2021 down 20.2% rising
24 Peru 7.2% 2022 up 6.4% rising
25 Ecuador 7.2% 2022 down 2.6% flat
26 Panama 6.8% 2023 up 19.3% rising
27 Cote d'Ivoire 5.5% 2021 down 58.3% falling
28 El Salvador 5.4% 2022 down 33.3% falling
29 Paraguay 3.5% 2022 up 47.3% rising
30 Colombia 3.3% 2022 up 44.0% rising
31 Honduras 2.4% 2019 down 2.3% falling
32 South Africa 2.0% 2021 down 56.1% volatile

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 (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT)
Unit
preT
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
33 places, 342 data points, 2002–2023
Last refreshed

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