Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
33
Highest
21.2%
Serbia
Lowest
8.1%
Malawi
Median
17.1%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
346

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers (preT) is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 21.2% in Serbia; the lowest is 8.1% in Malawi.

The median across all reporting countries is 17.1%, and the mean is 16.9%.

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

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Vietnam (up 101.3%), and the largest decrease in Brazil (down 27.5%).

Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
2 Serbia 21.2% 2022 up 33.7% rising
3 Armenia 21.0% 2022 up 3.4% flat
4 Thailand 20.7% 2021 up 16.3% rising
5 Panama 20.6% 2023 down 18.6% falling
6 Moldova 19.8% 2018 down 1.3% falling
7 El Salvador 19.1% 2022 up 2.9% flat
8 Mexico 19.0% 2022 up 15.4% rising
9 Peru 18.9% 2022 up 5.3% rising
10 Costa Rica 18.7% 2022 up 29.7% rising
11 Vietnam 18.2% 2020 up 101.3% rising
12 Georgia 18.1% 2021 up 45.0% rising
13 Honduras 18.1% 2019 up 5.5% flat
14 Dominican Republic 17.8% 2021 up 16.8% rising
15 Argentina 17.7% 2022 down 19.2% falling
16 Bolivia 17.1% 2021 up 24.5% rising
17 Ecuador 17.1% 2022 down 4.2% rising
18 Belarus 17.1% 2019 down 10.6% falling
19 Colombia 17.0% 2022 down 9.0% falling
20 Chile 16.9% 2022 up 16.5% rising
21 Uruguay 16.6% 2022 up 8.6% rising
22 Sri Lanka 16.4% 2019 up 33.6% rising
23 Mongolia 16.3% 2020 up 3.6% flat
24 Romania 15.9% 2021 up 15.3% rising
25 Burkina Faso 15.8% 2021 up 42.9% rising
26 Kyrgyzstan 15.6% 2020 down 4.7% falling
27 Paraguay 15.1% 2022 down 24.1% rising
28 Poland 15.0% 2019 up 1.2% rising
29 Pakistan 14.6% 2018 down 0.6% flat
30 Cote d'Ivoire 14.0% 2021 down 8.1% falling
31 Brazil 13.6% 2022 down 27.5% falling
32 Kazakhstan 13.0% 2021 down 15.9% falling
33 Turkey 12.8% 2019 down 21.2% falling
34 Malawi 8.1% 2019 down 23.0% 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 3rd quintile (%) - All Private Transfers (preT)
Unit
preT
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 third quintile relative to the total benefits going to the population