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

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
58.9%
Armenia
Lowest
4.0%
Cote d'Ivoire
Median
26.8%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 4th quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 58.9% in Armenia; the lowest is 4.0% in Cote d'Ivoire.

The median across all reporting countries is 26.8%, and the mean is 27.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 15.

Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 126.1%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 46.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 58.9% 2022 up 12.5% rising
2 Serbia 56.0% 2022 down 5.7% falling
3 Belarus 53.0% 2019 up 28.8% rising
4 Russia 51.6% 2017 up 30.2% rising
5 Ukraine 51.4% 2020 down 1.2% flat
6 Kyrgyzstan 49.1% 2020 up 25.4% rising
7 Moldova 47.2% 2018 up 10.7% rising
8 Romania 46.4% 2021 down 9.7% falling
9 Poland 44.3% 2019 down 10.5% falling
10 Turkey 43.9% 2019 up 9.0% rising
11 Albania 41.0% 2018 down 5.7% volatile
12 Uruguay 39.8% 2022 down 1.0% falling
13 Argentina 37.9% 2022 up 37.3% rising
14 Kazakhstan 37.6% 2021 up 33.7% rising
15 Brazil 37.1% 2022 up 1.1% flat
16 Mongolia 36.9% 2020 up 9.7% rising
17 Chile 28.4% 2022 up 7.9% flat
18 Costa Rica 26.8% 2022 up 50.8% rising
19 Panama 25.6% 2023 up 68.0% rising
20 Mexico 21.2% 2022 up 15.6% rising
21 Ecuador 16.3% 2022 up 20.6% rising
22 Colombia 15.9% 2022 up 24.1% rising
23 Vietnam 11.6% 2020 up 5.8% falling
24 Sri Lanka 10.9% 2019 up 12.6% rising
25 Peru 9.8% 2022 down 46.0% falling
26 Indonesia 9.4% 2022 up 126.1% rising
27 Pakistan 8.6% 2018 up 14.0% falling
28 El Salvador 7.7% 2022 up 25.6% rising
29 Paraguay 7.2% 2022 up 17.5% falling
30 Bolivia 7.0% 2021 down 11.1% falling
31 Dominican Republic 6.5% 2021 down 0.9% rising
32 Thailand 5.3% 2021 up 67.6% rising
33 Honduras 4.7% 2019 up 90.9% rising
34 South Africa 4.1% 2021 up 15.6% rising
35 Cote d'Ivoire 4.0% 2021 down 44.9% 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 4th 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)