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

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
58.1%
Armenia
Lowest
5.4%
South Africa
Median
27.5%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 58.1% in Armenia; the lowest is 5.4% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 27.5%, and the mean is 27.7%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 11.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 109.2%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 44.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 58.1% 2022 up 13.4% flat
2 Serbia 53.0% 2022 down 7.9% falling
3 Belarus 51.6% 2019 up 26.5% rising
4 Russia 49.5% 2017 up 25.9% rising
5 Ukraine 47.3% 2020 down 2.3% falling
6 Turkey 43.9% 2019 up 6.9% rising
7 Kyrgyzstan 43.5% 2020 down 0.6% rising
8 Poland 42.5% 2019 down 9.8% falling
9 Albania 41.0% 2018 down 7.2% volatile
10 Moldova 40.6% 2018 up 29.9% rising
11 Uruguay 39.6% 2022 down 3.2% falling
12 Romania 38.8% 2021 down 16.8% falling
13 Argentina 37.9% 2022 up 37.3% rising
14 Kazakhstan 37.8% 2021 up 37.7% rising
15 Brazil 36.0% 2022 up 6.3% rising
16 Mongolia 33.8% 2020 down 3.0% flat
17 Costa Rica 30.7% 2022 up 44.7% rising
18 Chile 27.5% 2022 up 3.6% flat
19 Panama 27.0% 2023 up 48.0% rising
20 Mexico 24.5% 2022 up 27.6% rising
21 Ecuador 19.8% 2022 up 22.1% rising
22 Colombia 19.2% 2022 up 15.0% rising
23 Vietnam 16.5% 2020 down 12.2% falling
24 Indonesia 13.8% 2022 up 109.2% rising
25 Sri Lanka 13.0% 2019 up 7.7% rising
26 Peru 11.8% 2022 down 44.0% falling
27 El Salvador 10.6% 2022 up 20.7% rising
28 Cote d'Ivoire 8.8% 2021 down 23.0% falling
29 Bolivia 8.4% 2021 down 16.7% falling
30 Paraguay 8.4% 2022 down 20.2% falling
31 Thailand 8.0% 2021 up 5.2% rising
32 Pakistan 7.9% 2018 down 14.9% falling
33 Dominican Republic 7.5% 2021 up 7.9% flat
34 Honduras 7.4% 2019 up 34.4% rising
35 South Africa 5.4% 2021 up 9.1% 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 -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)