Coverage in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions by country

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
60.1%
Armenia
Lowest
1.1%
Honduras
Median
22.6%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 60.1% in Armenia; the lowest is 1.1% in Honduras.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.6%, and the mean is 25.4%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 53.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Thailand (up 186.3%), and the largest decrease in Paraguay (down 32.3%).

Coverage in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 60.1% 2022 up 9.0% rising
2 Ukraine 58.1% 2020 up 14.2% rising
3 Serbia 56.9% 2022 up 2.0% flat
4 Russia 56.0% 2017 up 32.6% rising
5 Belarus 50.6% 2019 up 9.0% rising
6 Moldova 50.4% 2018 up 15.5% rising
7 Kyrgyzstan 50.4% 2020 up 29.0% rising
8 Albania 43.2% 2018 down 13.9% volatile
9 Poland 42.2% 2019 down 10.0% falling
10 Romania 41.0% 2021 down 16.6% falling
11 Turkey 40.8% 2019 up 17.5% rising
12 Uruguay 38.8% 2022 down 2.6% flat
13 Kazakhstan 35.4% 2021 up 22.3% rising
14 Argentina 33.6% 2022 up 25.8% rising
15 Brazil 32.2% 2022 down 5.1% falling
16 Mongolia 31.5% 2020 down 13.8% falling
17 Chile 29.7% 2022 up 20.6% flat
18 Costa Rica 22.6% 2022 up 59.7% rising
19 Panama 19.2% 2023 up 40.7% rising
20 Mexico 15.4% 2022 up 24.6% rising
21 Ecuador 13.7% 2022 up 88.5% rising
22 Vietnam 8.0% 2020 up 9.2% falling
23 Sri Lanka 7.0% 2019 up 46.3% rising
24 Peru 6.9% 2022 down 32.2% falling
25 El Salvador 6.5% 2022 up 53.8% rising
26 Colombia 6.4% 2022 up 44.7% rising
27 Pakistan 5.5% 2018 down 20.0% falling
28 Indonesia 5.4% 2022 up 140.8% rising
29 Dominican Republic 4.8% 2021 down 8.9% rising
30 Cote d'Ivoire 4.2% 2021 down 31.7% volatile
31 Bolivia 4.0% 2021 down 8.3% rising
32 Paraguay 3.5% 2022 down 32.3% rising
33 Thailand 3.2% 2021 up 186.3% rising
34 South Africa 1.7% 2021 down 25.9% flat
35 Honduras 1.1% 2019 down 19.4% rising

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 3rd 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)