Coverage in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
49.8%
Armenia
Lowest
3.6%
Thailand
Median
23.5%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 49.8% in Armenia; the lowest is 3.6% in Thailand.

The median across all reporting countries is 23.5%, and the mean is 22.6%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 14.

Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 131.1%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 45.5%).

Coverage in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 49.8% 2022 up 9.3% flat
2 Russia 46.0% 2017 up 16.1% rising
3 Serbia 45.0% 2022 down 10.1% falling
4 Ukraine 41.5% 2020 up 2.7% rising
5 Albania 41.0% 2018 up 6.7% volatile
6 Kyrgyzstan 41.0% 2020 up 26.9% rising
7 Belarus 35.3% 2019 up 20.1% rising
8 Turkey 35.1% 2019 up 7.6% rising
9 Uruguay 33.6% 2022 down 6.9% falling
10 Argentina 33.2% 2022 up 40.7% rising
11 Moldova 32.2% 2018 down 6.3% flat
12 Brazil 31.3% 2022 up 4.4% flat
13 Poland 29.8% 2019 down 12.4% falling
14 Kazakhstan 28.8% 2021 up 16.5% rising
15 Romania 27.2% 2021 down 27.7% falling
16 Mongolia 27.1% 2020 down 10.4% falling
17 Costa Rica 26.1% 2022 up 60.7% rising
18 Panama 23.5% 2023 up 59.4% rising
19 Mexico 19.3% 2022 up 14.3% rising
20 Chile 18.7% 2022 down 17.9% falling
21 Ecuador 18.1% 2022 up 31.9% rising
22 Colombia 15.1% 2022 up 20.9% rising
23 Sri Lanka 9.9% 2019 up 27.8% rising
24 Vietnam 9.8% 2020 up 0.9% falling
25 Peru 9.6% 2022 down 45.5% falling
26 Indonesia 9.6% 2022 up 131.1% rising
27 Paraguay 7.8% 2022 up 24.8% flat
28 El Salvador 7.6% 2022 up 20.6% rising
29 Bolivia 6.9% 2021 up 1.7% falling
30 Dominican Republic 6.6% 2021 up 3.3% rising
31 Pakistan 6.5% 2018 down 6.4% falling
32 South Africa 4.7% 2021 up 21.8% rising
33 Honduras 4.6% 2019 up 67.8% rising
34 Cote d'Ivoire 4.3% 2021 down 31.4% volatile
35 Thailand 3.6% 2021 up 22.2% 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 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT)
Unit
preT
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)