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

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
62.9%
Armenia
Lowest
0.4%
South Africa
Median
10.4%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 1st quintile (poorest) (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 62.9% in Armenia; the lowest is 0.4% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 10.4%, and the mean is 20.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 144.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 122.5%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 75.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 62.9% 2022 up 6.7% flat
2 Serbia 62.1% 2022 up 15.7% rising
3 Moldova 58.5% 2018 up 20.3% rising
4 Ukraine 57.1% 2020 up 11.7% rising
5 Albania 49.5% 2018 up 13.9% volatile
6 Belarus 44.8% 2019 up 19.3% rising
7 Russia 43.2% 2017 down 11.3% falling
8 Kyrgyzstan 40.9% 2020 down 7.7% rising
9 Poland 36.1% 2019 down 3.0% flat
10 Romania 34.6% 2021 up 4.8% falling
11 Kazakhstan 33.4% 2021 up 29.7% rising
12 Mongolia 31.7% 2020 down 24.0% falling
13 Turkey 24.2% 2019 up 13.6% rising
14 Argentina 21.2% 2022 down 23.5% flat
15 Uruguay 17.3% 2022 down 23.9% falling
16 Chile 15.1% 2022 up 5.1% falling
17 Panama 11.2% 2023 up 68.0% rising
18 Costa Rica 10.4% 2022 up 59.2% falling
19 Brazil 10.3% 2022 down 6.4% falling
20 Mexico 8.2% 2022 up 0.8% rising
21 Ecuador 7.9% 2022 up 25.7% rising
22 Vietnam 7.1% 2020 up 12.9% falling
23 Sri Lanka 4.4% 2019 down 21.6% rising
24 Peru 3.6% 2022 down 31.8% falling
25 Dominican Republic 3.4% 2021 down 22.7% falling
26 Pakistan 3.1% 2018 up 13.0% falling
27 Indonesia 2.8% 2022 up 122.5% rising
28 Cote d'Ivoire 2.3% 2021 down 75.0% volatile
29 El Salvador 2.2% 2022 down 9.1% falling
30 Paraguay 1.7% 2022 up 28.2% flat
31 Honduras 1.6% 2019 down 10.6% falling
32 Thailand 1.4% 2021 up 24.9% rising
33 Bolivia 1.2% 2021 down 17.5% rising
34 Colombia 0.7% 2022 down 33.0% falling
35 South Africa 0.4% 2021 down 56.1% 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 -urban
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)