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

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

Countries reporting
32
Highest
19.2%
Moldova
Lowest
0.9%
Colombia
Median
6.9%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 19.2% in Moldova; the lowest is 0.9% in Colombia.

The median across all reporting countries is 6.9%, and the mean is 8.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 21.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Vietnam (up 80.0%), and the largest decrease in Honduras (down 55.4%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Moldova 19.2% 2018 down 4.4% flat
2 Serbia 19.1% 2022 up 32.9% rising
3 Ukraine 18.7% 2020 up 13.0% rising
4 Belarus 18.3% 2019 down 3.5% rising
5 Armenia 17.3% 2022 down 13.1% falling
6 Romania 17.0% 2021 up 32.8% rising
7 Kyrgyzstan 15.1% 2020 down 3.0% rising
8 Poland 14.3% 2019 up 6.7% rising
9 Chile 13.9% 2022 up 36.2% rising
10 Mongolia 11.2% 2020 down 32.1% falling
11 Kazakhstan 10.9% 2021 down 15.6% falling
12 Turkey 10.4% 2019 up 8.2% rising
13 Vietnam 8.4% 2020 up 80.0% rising
14 Uruguay 8.1% 2022 down 1.0% rising
15 Argentina 7.9% 2022 down 38.8% falling
16 Sri Lanka 7.3% 2019 up 26.4% rising
17 Brazil 6.6% 2022 down 0.3% rising
18 Pakistan 6.0% 2018 up 5.7% falling
19 Cote d'Ivoire 5.2% 2021 down 39.6% falling
20 Costa Rica 5.2% 2022 down 7.9% falling
21 Dominican Republic 4.5% 2021 down 20.6% falling
22 Peru 4.4% 2022 up 8.4% rising
23 Panama 4.3% 2023 up 50.0% rising
24 Mexico 4.0% 2022 up 35.6% rising
25 El Salvador 3.4% 2022 down 2.9% falling
26 Ecuador 2.9% 2022 down 23.9% rising
27 Thailand 2.9% 2021 up 78.3% rising
28 Bolivia 2.5% 2021 up 4.5% rising
29 Paraguay 1.3% 2022 down 19.2% falling
30 Honduras 0.9% 2019 down 55.4% falling
31 South Africa 0.9% 2021 down 54.1% volatile
32 Colombia 0.9% 2022 down 33.8% 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 (%) - Contributory Pensions
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