Coverage in 1st quintile (poorest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) by country

Percentage of population participating in Contributory Pensions programs (includes direct and indirect beneficiaries)

Countries reporting
33
Highest
86.8%
Ukraine
Lowest
0.3%
Honduras
Median
16.4%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 1st quintile (poorest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 86.8% in Ukraine; the lowest is 0.3% in Honduras.

The median across all reporting countries is 16.4%, and the mean is 31.2%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 296.

Over the past decade 23 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Thailand (up 143.7%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 66.7%).

Coverage in 1st quintile (poorest) (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ukraine 86.8% 2020 up 12.5% rising
2 Serbia 79.1% 2022 up 5.6% rising
3 Moldova 78.2% 2018 up 31.4% rising
4 Armenia 77.0% 2022 up 4.3% flat
5 Kyrgyzstan 74.0% 2020 up 22.2% rising
6 Poland 70.8% 2019 down 0.1% rising
7 Belarus 69.7% 2019 up 9.0% flat
8 Romania 62.7% 2021 up 7.8% flat
9 Kazakhstan 60.0% 2021 up 50.6% rising
10 Russia 58.8% 2017 up 29.2% rising
11 Albania 49.5% 2018 down 20.2% volatile
12 Mongolia 44.6% 2020 down 2.2% rising
13 Turkey 40.9% 2019 up 28.7% rising
14 Chile 37.4% 2022 up 74.3% rising
15 Uruguay 29.0% 2022 down 11.5% rising
16 Argentina 27.8% 2022 down 32.5% falling
17 Brazil 16.4% 2022 down 20.5% falling
18 Costa Rica 14.1% 2022 up 75.1% rising
20 Thailand 7.2% 2021 up 143.7% volatile
21 Sri Lanka 7.2% 2019 up 36.0% rising
22 Vietnam 7.1% 2020 up 44.7% falling
24 Pakistan 5.8% 2018 up 6.9% falling
25 Ecuador 5.0% 2022 down 18.8% rising
26 Dominican Republic 5.0% 2021 up 9.5% rising
27 Peru 2.9% 2022 up 24.6% rising
28 El Salvador 2.8% 2022 up 40.3% rising
29 Bolivia 1.9% 2021 up 133.3% rising
30 Indonesia 1.8% 2022 up 123.0% rising
31 Cote d'Ivoire 1.7% 2021 down 66.7% volatile
32 Colombia 1.2% 2022 down 14.7% rising
33 South Africa 1.0% 2021 up 59.5% volatile
34 Paraguay 0.8% 2022 up 88.0% flat
35 Honduras 0.3% 2019 down 30.5% volatile

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
Coverage in 1st quintile (poorest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT)
Unit
preT
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 364 data points, 2002–2023
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Percentage of population participating in Contributory Pensions programs (includes direct and indirect beneficiaries)