Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - All Private Transfers by country

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

Countries reporting
34
Highest
27.5%
Vietnam
Lowest
15.8%
Burkina Faso
Median
21.6%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
346

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - All Private Transfers is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 27.5% in Vietnam; the lowest is 15.8% in Burkina Faso.

The median across all reporting countries is 21.6%, and the mean is 21.4%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Vietnam (up 19.6%), and the largest decrease in South Africa (down 25.0%).

Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - All Private Transfers: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Vietnam 27.5% 2020 up 19.6% rising
2 Mongolia 26.1% 2020 up 12.2% falling
3 Peru 26.0% 2022 up 12.7% flat
4 Honduras 25.4% 2019 up 17.2% rising
5 Ecuador 25.2% 2022 down 2.2% flat
6 Turkey 23.9% 2019 up 16.4% rising
7 El Salvador 23.2% 2022 down 11.4% falling
8 Costa Rica 22.5% 2022 up 11.9% flat
9 Moldova 22.4% 2018 up 17.2% rising
10 Serbia 22.4% 2022 up 3.3% rising
11 Cote d'Ivoire 22.3% 2021 up 5.8% falling
12 Colombia 22.2% 2022 up 14.9% rising
13 Poland 21.9% 2019 up 3.9% rising
14 Argentina 21.9% 2022 down 14.2% falling
15 Mexico 21.9% 2022 down 16.4% flat
16 Pakistan 21.8% 2018 down 4.5% flat
17 Sri Lanka 21.8% 2019 up 12.5% flat
18 Uruguay 21.4% 2022 down 8.2% falling
19 Bolivia 21.4% 2021 up 14.0% rising
20 Dominican Republic 21.3% 2021 down 10.9% rising
21 Georgia 21.1% 2021 down 4.5% falling
22 Belarus 20.7% 2019 up 5.0% rising
23 Romania 20.4% 2021 up 5.3% rising
24 Brazil 20.3% 2022 down 1.2% rising
25 South Africa 20.2% 2021 down 25.0% rising
26 Kazakhstan 19.8% 2021 down 0.9% flat
27 Panama 19.8% 2023 down 18.1% falling
28 Thailand 19.8% 2021 up 0.9% rising
29 Malawi 18.6% 2019 up 6.3% rising
30 Chile 17.8% 2022 up 3.3% flat
31 Kyrgyzstan 16.8% 2020 down 6.7% falling
32 Paraguay 16.7% 2022 down 20.5% falling
33 Armenia 16.7% 2022 up 4.1% flat
34 Burkina Faso 15.8% 2021 down 10.7% 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 4th quintile (%) - All Private Transfers
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 fourth quintile relative to the total benefits going to the population