Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
32
Highest
27.2%
South Africa
Lowest
11.9%
Moldova
Median
18.7%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 27.2% in South Africa; the lowest is 11.9% in Moldova.

The median across all reporting countries is 18.7%, and the mean is 18.9%.

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

Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in South Africa (up 57.0%), and the largest decrease in Romania (down 28.2%).

Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 South Africa 27.2% 2021 up 57.0% rising
2 Argentina 25.0% 2022 up 50.6% rising
3 Dominican Republic 24.6% 2021 up 29.9% rising
4 Paraguay 23.6% 2022 up 23.4% flat
5 Honduras 23.5% 2019 up 48.5% falling
6 Costa Rica 23.3% 2022 up 17.1% rising
7 Uruguay 23.2% 2022 down 3.3% falling
8 Sri Lanka 22.2% 2019 up 3.3% flat
9 Turkey 21.8% 2019 up 0.5% flat
10 Panama 21.8% 2023 up 15.1% rising
11 Bolivia 21.6% 2021 down 13.6% falling
12 Mexico 21.1% 2022 up 22.0% rising
13 Brazil 21.0% 2022 up 2.4% flat
14 Peru 20.1% 2022 down 18.1% falling
15 El Salvador 19.8% 2022 up 8.1% rising
16 Ecuador 19.0% 2022 down 21.1% falling
17 Colombia 18.4% 2022 up 32.5% rising
18 Mongolia 18.2% 2020 down 4.5% falling
19 Vietnam 18.1% 2020 down 11.7% rising
20 Kazakhstan 17.0% 2021 down 20.1% falling
21 Chile 16.9% 2022 down 26.8% falling
22 Pakistan 16.8% 2018 down 8.5% falling
23 Kyrgyzstan 16.6% 2020 up 5.9% falling
24 Armenia 16.5% 2022 up 0.8% flat
25 Thailand 15.5% 2021 down 4.4% falling
26 Serbia 15.2% 2022 down 9.0% falling
27 Cote d'Ivoire 14.2% 2021 down 10.0% rising
28 Poland 13.2% 2019 down 13.0% falling
29 Ukraine 12.6% 2020 down 13.2% falling
30 Belarus 12.5% 2019 up 2.7% falling
31 Romania 11.9% 2021 down 28.2% falling
32 Moldova 11.9% 2018 down 18.6% 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 (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT)
Unit
preT
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 fourth quintile relative to the total benefits going to the population