Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - Contributory Pensions 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
31
Highest
0.4%
Pakistan
Lowest
0.0%
Dominican Republic
Median
0.0%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
325

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 31 countries. The highest value is 0.4% in Pakistan; the lowest is 0.0% in Dominican Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0%, and the mean is 0.1%.

Over the past decade 4 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Belarus (up 871.8%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 100.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Pakistan 0.4% 2018 down 26.6% falling
1 Kosovo 0.0% 2017 down 97.6% volatile
2 Armenia 0.3% 2022 down 60.6% volatile
3 Kyrgyzstan 0.3% 2020 down 57.2% volatile
4 Serbia 0.2% 2022 β€” volatile
5 Ecuador 0.1% 2022 up 79.7% volatile
6 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1% 2021 down 99.3% volatile
7 Sri Lanka 0.1% 2019 up 5.3% volatile
8 Moldova 0.1% 2018 down 40.9% volatile
9 Kazakhstan 0.0% 2021 down 6.7% volatile
11 Turkey 0.0% 2019 down 30.2% volatile
12 Belarus 0.0% 2013 up 871.8% volatile
13 Ukraine 0.0% 2020 β€” volatile
14 El Salvador 0.0% 2022 up 48.7% volatile
15 Brazil 0.0% 2022 down 46.4% volatile
16 Honduras 0.0% 2019 β€” volatile
17 Chile 0.0% 2022 down 87.1% volatile
18 Argentina 0.0% 2022 down 99.6% volatile
19 Mexico 0.0% 2022 down 99.7% volatile
20 Colombia 0.0% 2022 down 67.3% volatile
21 Poland 0.0% 2017 down 100.0% volatile
21 Vietnam 0.0% 2020 down 100.0% volatile
21 Uruguay 0.0% 2022 β€” volatile
21 Thailand 0.0% 2021 β€” flat
21 Bolivia 0.0% 2021 β€” volatile
21 Paraguay 0.0% 2022 β€” volatile
21 Peru 0.0% 2022 β€” volatile
21 Panama 0.0% 2023 β€” volatile
21 Mongolia 0.0% 2020 down 100.0% volatile
21 Costa Rica 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
21 Dominican Republic 0.0% 2021 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - Contributory Pensions
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
32 places, 325 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