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

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

Countries reporting
31
Highest
80.4%
Paraguay
Lowest
22.6%
Moldova
Median
54.6%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
342

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 31 countries. The highest value is 80.4% in Paraguay; the lowest is 22.6% in Moldova.

The median across all reporting countries is 54.6%, and the mean is 52.3%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Mongolia (up 36.7%), and the largest decrease in Serbia (down 30.3%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
2 Paraguay 80.4% 2022 up 2.6% flat
3 Honduras 79.4% 2019 down 5.3% flat
4 Colombia 79.0% 2022 down 3.5% flat
5 Bolivia 75.8% 2021 up 12.3% flat
6 Ecuador 75.7% 2022 up 5.1% flat
7 Cote d'Ivoire 70.5% 2021 up 29.0% rising
8 Mexico 69.8% 2022 down 4.1% flat
9 Thailand 68.1% 2021 down 13.6% falling
10 El Salvador 68.0% 2022 down 7.6% flat
11 Costa Rica 66.5% 2022 down 2.1% flat
12 Dominican Republic 66.2% 2021 up 1.8% flat
13 Peru 65.8% 2022 up 4.6% flat
14 Panama 65.3% 2023 down 13.1% falling
15 Pakistan 62.0% 2018 down 1.4% rising
16 Brazil 56.8% 2022 up 3.2% flat
17 Vietnam 54.6% 2020 down 9.6% falling
18 Sri Lanka 54.6% 2019 down 6.5% falling
19 Uruguay 52.0% 2022 up 2.1% falling
20 Argentina 48.6% 2022 up 21.3% rising
21 Kazakhstan 43.8% 2021 up 29.2% rising
22 Turkey 39.7% 2019 down 11.3% falling
23 Mongolia 38.0% 2020 up 36.7% rising
24 Kyrgyzstan 32.0% 2020 down 3.2% flat
25 Poland 30.3% 2019 down 2.8% falling
26 Chile 29.3% 2022 down 29.4% falling
27 Romania 27.6% 2021 down 22.8% falling
28 Armenia 26.5% 2022 up 17.2% rising
29 Serbia 24.6% 2022 down 30.3% falling
30 Ukraine 24.4% 2020 down 13.1% falling
31 Belarus 23.5% 2019 up 7.3% flat
32 Moldova 22.6% 2018 up 15.2% rising

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 5th quintile (richest) (%) - 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 richestquintile relative to the total benefits going to the population