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Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - All Private Transfers by country

Percentage of benefits going to the extreme poor (those below $125 a day) relative to the total benefits going to the population

Countries reporting
35
Highest
28.8%
Malawi
Lowest
0.0%
Belarus
Median
0.2%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
335

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - All Private Transfers is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 28.8% in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0% in Belarus.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2%, and the mean is 1.8%.

Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Uruguay (up 230.2%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 100.0%).

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - All Private: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 28.8% 2019 down 16.5% falling
2 South Africa 8.6% 2021 up 10.0% volatile
3 Burkina Faso 7.4% 2021 down 78.3% volatile
4 Honduras 3.1% 2019 down 0.7% flat
5 Georgia 3.0% 2021 up 1.7% falling
6 Colombia 2.6% 2022 up 21.2% volatile
7 Côte d'Ivoire 1.7% 2021 down 83.5% volatile
8 Pakistan 1.0% 2018 down 54.1% falling
9 Brazil 0.9% 2022 down 78.6% volatile
10 Ecuador 0.9% 2022 up 56.5% rising
11 Armenia 0.7% 2022 down 30.3% volatile
12 Paraguay 0.4% 2022 down 3.3% volatile
13 Dominican Republic 0.4% 2021 down 63.3% falling
14 Panama 0.4% 2023 up 22.2% volatile
15 Mexico 0.3% 2022 down 97.3% volatile
16 Kyrgyzstan 0.3% 2020 down 18.4% volatile
17 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.3% 2021 down 75.0% volatile
18 Costa Rica 0.2% 2022 down 35.3% volatile
19 Peru 0.2% 2022 down 63.9% volatile
20 El Salvador 0.1% 2022 down 87.5% falling
21 Türkiye 0.1% 2019 down 79.8% volatile
22 Argentina 0.1% 2022 down 59.5% volatile
23 Chile 0.1% 2022 down 93.6% volatile
24 Uruguay 0.0% 2022 up 230.2% volatile
25 Sri Lanka 0.0% 2019 down 94.7% volatile
26 Kosovo 0.0% 2017 down 94.7% volatile
26 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.0% 2017 down 94.7% volatile
28 Kazakhstan 0.0% 2021 down 78.2% volatile
29 Viet Nam 0.0% 2020 down 86.2% volatile
30 Republic of Moldova 0.0% 2018 down 84.4% volatile
31 Thailand 0.0% 2021 down 75.1% volatile
32 Serbia 0.0% 2022 — volatile
32 Poland 0.0% 2017 down 100.0% volatile
32 Mongolia 0.0% 2020 down 100.0% volatile
32 Belarus 0.0% 2013 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - All Private Transfers
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
35 places, 335 data points, 2002–2023
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Percentage of benefits going to the extreme poor (those below $125 a day) relative to the total benefits going to the population