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

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

Countries reporting
32
Highest
27.6%
Turkey
Lowest
12.1%
Ecuador
Median
21.1%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 27.6% in Turkey; the lowest is 12.1% in Ecuador.

The median across all reporting countries is 21.1%, and the mean is 20.4%.

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

Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Honduras (up 48.8%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 30.5%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Turkey 27.6% 2019 up 9.1% rising
2 Chile 27.0% 2022 up 8.1% rising
3 Mongolia 26.7% 2020 up 15.7% rising
4 Romania 26.6% 2021 up 0.8% flat
5 Argentina 25.4% 2022 up 13.8% flat
6 Poland 25.2% 2019 down 8.7% falling
7 Belarus 24.3% 2019 up 8.0% rising
8 Armenia 23.4% 2022 up 8.3% flat
9 Moldova 22.6% 2018 down 1.0% flat
10 Serbia 22.5% 2022 down 3.8% falling
11 Uruguay 22.4% 2022 down 1.5% flat
12 Kazakhstan 22.4% 2021 down 7.5% falling
13 Kyrgyzstan 22.3% 2020 up 5.9% falling
14 Vietnam 22.0% 2020 down 2.4% falling
15 Sri Lanka 22.0% 2019 down 7.8% flat
16 Brazil 21.4% 2022 up 1.4% rising
17 Panama 20.8% 2023 up 48.5% rising
18 Thailand 20.0% 2021 up 33.2% flat
19 Ukraine 19.9% 2020 down 10.5% falling
20 Pakistan 19.7% 2018 up 19.1% flat
21 Peru 19.4% 2022 down 16.1% falling
22 Costa Rica 17.7% 2022 up 10.5% rising
23 Mexico 17.0% 2022 up 2.3% rising
24 Dominican Republic 16.8% 2021 down 3.6% flat
25 El Salvador 16.7% 2022 up 14.6% rising
26 Honduras 16.1% 2019 up 48.8% falling
27 Bolivia 15.9% 2021 down 27.9% falling
28 Colombia 15.6% 2022 up 18.1% rising
29 Paraguay 13.8% 2022 down 5.4% flat
30 Cote d'Ivoire 13.6% 2021 down 30.5% falling
31 South Africa 12.5% 2021 up 30.4% rising
32 Ecuador 12.1% 2022 down 26.4% 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
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