Coverage in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban by country

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
65.5%
Armenia
Lowest
1.2%
South Africa
Median
22.7%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 65.5% in Armenia; the lowest is 1.2% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.7%, and the mean is 23.6%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 56.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 171.3%), and the largest decrease in Paraguay (down 51.7%).

Coverage in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 65.5% 2022 up 7.7% flat
2 Serbia 59.9% 2022 down 2.7% flat
3 Ukraine 56.1% 2020 up 11.2% rising
4 Russia 55.8% 2017 up 18.4% rising
5 Moldova 49.8% 2018 up 11.5% rising
6 Albania 48.7% 2018 up 2.0% volatile
7 Belarus 47.5% 2019 up 23.4% rising
8 Kyrgyzstan 42.3% 2020 down 10.5% falling
9 Poland 38.2% 2019 down 4.6% falling
10 Romania 37.1% 2021 down 12.5% falling
11 Mongolia 31.9% 2020 down 18.4% falling
12 Kazakhstan 31.7% 2021 up 28.1% rising
13 Turkey 31.6% 2019 up 14.3% rising
14 Uruguay 31.3% 2022 down 4.3% falling
15 Argentina 28.5% 2022 up 5.4% rising
16 Brazil 23.4% 2022 up 3.1% falling
17 Chile 22.8% 2022 up 11.8% falling
18 Costa Rica 22.7% 2022 up 34.9% rising
19 Panama 15.4% 2023 up 9.7% rising
20 Mexico 13.8% 2022 up 19.0% rising
21 Vietnam 10.6% 2020 down 3.4% falling
22 Ecuador 8.8% 2022 up 4.2% rising
23 Sri Lanka 6.6% 2019 up 5.2% rising
24 Cote d'Ivoire 6.4% 2021 down 38.5% volatile
25 Peru 6.0% 2022 down 34.0% falling
26 El Salvador 5.6% 2022 up 21.2% falling
27 Indonesia 5.5% 2022 up 171.3% rising
28 Dominican Republic 4.2% 2021 down 20.1% flat
29 Pakistan 3.9% 2018 down 41.8% falling
30 Colombia 3.6% 2022 up 31.7% rising
31 Bolivia 3.5% 2021 up 5.1% flat
32 Thailand 3.5% 2021 up 55.4% rising
33 Paraguay 2.5% 2022 down 51.7% rising
34 Honduras 1.5% 2019 down 20.0% falling
35 South Africa 1.2% 2021 down 46.3% falling

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 2nd quintile (%) - 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)