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

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

Countries reporting
30
Highest
22.7%
Chile
Lowest
2.5%
South Africa
Median
13.1%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 30 countries. The highest value is 22.7% in Chile; the lowest is 2.5% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 13.1%, and the mean is 13.3%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9.

Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Thailand (up 80.3%), and the largest decrease in Bolivia (down 28.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Chile 22.7% 2022 up 25.2% rising
2 Belarus 22.4% 2019 down 7.0% falling
3 Moldova 21.9% 2018 down 4.2% flat
4 Ukraine 21.3% 2020 up 11.4% rising
5 Romania 20.7% 2021 up 8.7% rising
6 Serbia 20.4% 2022 up 17.2% rising
7 Poland 19.5% 2019 up 0.4% flat
8 Armenia 19.3% 2022 down 4.1% rising
9 Turkey 17.9% 2019 up 14.4% rising
10 Kyrgyzstan 17.7% 2020 down 1.0% falling
11 Mongolia 17.2% 2020 down 15.5% falling
12 Uruguay 14.9% 2022 down 0.1% rising
13 Argentina 14.7% 2022 down 2.6% falling
14 Kazakhstan 14.3% 2021 down 22.1% falling
15 Brazil 13.6% 2022 down 12.5% flat
16 Sri Lanka 12.7% 2019 up 34.0% rising
17 Vietnam 12.4% 2020 up 10.4% rising
18 Pakistan 10.2% 2018 down 12.6% falling
19 Cote d'Ivoire 10.1% 2021 down 23.1% falling
20 El Salvador 10.0% 2022 up 33.9% rising
21 Dominican Republic 9.4% 2021 up 4.6% flat
22 Peru 9.2% 2022 up 0.6% rising
23 Costa Rica 9.0% 2022 down 1.6% falling
25 Ecuador 8.3% 2022 up 30.2% rising
27 Thailand 7.9% 2021 up 80.3% rising
28 Bolivia 5.4% 2021 down 28.0% rising
29 Paraguay 4.5% 2022 down 18.1% rising
30 Colombia 4.4% 2022 up 30.2% rising
31 Honduras 3.4% 2019 up 6.1% falling
32 South Africa 2.5% 2021 up 21.9% 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
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