Benefits incidence in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) by country

Percentage of benefits going to the richestquintile relative to the total benefits going to the population

Countries reporting
33
Highest
69.1%
Colombia
Lowest
5.8%
Romania
Median
37.5%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 69.1% in Colombia; the lowest is 5.8% in Romania.

The median across all reporting countries is 37.5%, and the mean is 36.8%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 12.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Côte d’Ivoire (up 24.4%), and the largest decrease in Romania (down 46.6%).

Benefits incidence in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Colombia 69.1% 2022 down 9.3% falling
2 Honduras 65.0% 2019 down 10.9% flat
3 Ecuador 64.4% 2022 up 21.8% rising
4 South Africa 63.8% 2021 up 2.7% falling
5 Paraguay 63.5% 2022 down 2.2% flat
6 El Salvador 59.1% 2022 down 2.7% flat
7 Bolivia 56.4% 2021 up 16.4% falling
8 Panama 55.8% 2023 down 12.6% falling
9 Peru 55.7% 2022 up 3.0% flat
10 Mexico 54.8% 2022 up 3.0% falling
11 Costa Rica 53.3% 2022 down 5.9% falling
12 Côte d’Ivoire 50.9% 2021 up 24.4% rising
13 Dominican Republic 48.0% 2021 down 13.4% flat
14 Brazil 47.3% 2022 up 10.0% flat
15 Pakistan 42.9% 2018 up 5.3% rising
16 Viet Nam 39.4% 2020 down 15.6% falling
17 Sri Lanka 37.5% 2019 down 8.4% falling
18 Argentina 36.3% 2022 up 20.6% rising
19 Uruguay 35.9% 2022 down 0.4% falling
20 Türkiye 25.3% 2019 down 21.8% falling
21 Kazakhstan 24.2% 2021 up 4.3% flat
22 Chile 19.6% 2022 down 36.8% falling
23 Mongolia 18.7% 2020 down 2.9% falling
24 Thailand 18.5% 2021 down 38.8% falling
25 Kyrgyzstan 17.9% 2020 down 12.1% falling
26 Armenia 17.2% 2022 up 23.3% flat
27 Kosovo 14.8% 2017 down 21.0% falling
28 Ukraine 11.6% 2020 down 19.1% falling
29 Belarus 11.3% 2019 down 7.1% flat
30 Serbia 10.7% 2022 down 37.8% falling
31 Poland 10.4% 2019 down 19.6% falling
32 Moldova 10.1% 2018 down 20.6% falling
33 Romania 5.8% 2021 down 46.6% falling

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Indicator
Benefits incidence in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT)
Unit
preT
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
33 places, 342 data points, 2002–2023
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Percentage of benefits going to the richestquintile relative to the total benefits going to the population