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

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
64.3%
Armenia
Lowest
0.9%
Cote d'Ivoire
Median
17.3%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 64.3% in Armenia; the lowest is 0.9% in Cote d'Ivoire.

The median across all reporting countries is 17.3%, and the mean is 23.4%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 74.

Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 219.9%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 79.8%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 64.3% 2022 up 10.2% flat
2 Serbia 62.6% 2022 up 9.7% rising
3 Ukraine 58.5% 2020 up 11.3% rising
4 Russia 57.5% 2017 up 23.7% rising
5 Moldova 53.5% 2018 up 17.5% rising
6 Kyrgyzstan 48.8% 2020 up 18.0% rising
7 Albania 48.7% 2018 up 7.3% volatile
8 Belarus 45.5% 2019 up 6.8% rising
9 Romania 43.0% 2021 down 2.7% falling
10 Poland 42.6% 2019 down 4.1% falling
11 Kazakhstan 37.2% 2021 up 30.3% rising
12 Turkey 31.6% 2019 up 18.3% rising
13 Uruguay 30.9% 2022 down 4.7% falling
14 Mongolia 29.0% 2020 down 15.9% falling
15 Argentina 28.5% 2022 up 5.4% rising
16 Chile 23.5% 2022 up 19.9% flat
17 Brazil 23.4% 2022 up 2.1% flat
18 Costa Rica 17.3% 2022 up 48.0% rising
19 Panama 11.6% 2023 up 42.8% rising
20 Mexico 10.7% 2022 up 30.5% rising
21 Ecuador 9.2% 2022 up 34.6% rising
22 Vietnam 6.0% 2020 up 70.7% flat
23 Sri Lanka 4.5% 2019 up 24.8% rising
24 Peru 4.3% 2022 down 20.2% rising
25 Pakistan 3.9% 2018 down 8.3% falling
26 Dominican Republic 3.8% 2021 down 18.0% flat
27 Indonesia 3.6% 2022 up 219.9% rising
28 El Salvador 3.1% 2022 up 2.8% falling
29 Bolivia 2.5% 2021 up 21.8% rising
30 Colombia 1.8% 2022 down 13.8% rising
31 Paraguay 1.7% 2022 up 16.6% rising
32 Thailand 1.4% 2021 up 70.4% rising
33 South Africa 1.2% 2021 down 19.9% volatile
34 Honduras 0.9% 2019 down 6.9% flat
35 Cote d'Ivoire 0.9% 2021 down 79.8% 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 2nd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 364 data points, 2002–2023
Last refreshed

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