Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban by country

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

Countries reporting
32
Highest
23.7%
Romania
Lowest
3.6%
South Africa
Median
14.0%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 23.7% in Romania; the lowest is 3.6% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 14.0%, and the mean is 13.9%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Pakistan (up 68.2%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 42.0%).

Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Romania 23.7% 2021 up 26.2% rising
2 Belarus 22.4% 2019 up 1.5% falling
3 Chile 22.0% 2022 up 22.1% rising
4 Serbia 21.4% 2022 up 23.7% rising
5 Moldova 20.7% 2018 down 3.4% falling
6 Poland 20.5% 2019 down 3.0% flat
7 Ukraine 20.1% 2020 up 3.7% flat
8 Armenia 19.2% 2022 down 7.2% rising
9 Kyrgyzstan 18.1% 2020 up 5.0% falling
10 Turkey 17.9% 2019 up 11.5% rising
11 Vietnam 17.1% 2020 up 8.5% falling
12 Mongolia 16.6% 2020 down 16.9% flat
13 Kazakhstan 15.3% 2021 down 23.2% falling
14 Uruguay 14.9% 2022 up 0.3% rising
15 Sri Lanka 14.8% 2019 up 21.6% rising
16 Argentina 14.7% 2022 down 2.6% falling
17 Thailand 13.4% 2021 up 30.3% falling
18 Brazil 12.9% 2022 down 19.3% falling
19 Pakistan 11.8% 2018 up 68.2% rising
20 El Salvador 11.2% 2022 up 17.5% rising
21 Panama 11.1% 2023 up 38.3% rising
22 Dominican Republic 10.0% 2021 down 6.0% falling
23 Peru 9.5% 2022 down 17.5% falling
24 Mexico 9.2% 2022 up 6.0% flat
25 Costa Rica 8.5% 2022 down 16.1% flat
26 Paraguay 8.1% 2022 up 36.4% flat
27 Honduras 8.1% 2019 up 39.5% falling
28 Ecuador 8.1% 2022 down 9.5% falling
29 Bolivia 7.3% 2021 down 35.4% falling
30 Cote d'Ivoire 6.7% 2021 down 42.0% falling
31 Colombia 6.3% 2022 up 6.0% rising
32 South Africa 3.6% 2021 up 36.1% 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 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban
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 third quintile relative to the total benefits going to the population