Coverage in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
46.2%
Armenia
Lowest
4.1%
Thailand
Median
23.3%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions (preT) is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 46.2% in Armenia; the lowest is 4.1% in Thailand.

The median across all reporting countries is 23.3%, and the mean is 21.5%.

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

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 138.6%), and the largest decrease in Romania (down 47.2%).

Coverage in 5th quintile (richest) (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 46.2% 2022 up 31.0% flat
2 Albania 39.9% 2018 up 29.4% volatile
3 Russia 36.1% 2017 up 1.7% rising
4 Kyrgyzstan 34.3% 2020 up 14.9% rising
5 Brazil 31.7% 2022 up 7.7% flat
6 Belarus 31.1% 2019 up 21.1% rising
7 Turkey 30.7% 2019 down 11.9% falling
8 Ukraine 29.9% 2020 down 9.2% flat
9 Serbia 29.7% 2022 down 15.9% falling
10 Kazakhstan 28.5% 2021 up 30.5% rising
11 Panama 28.2% 2023 up 25.3% rising
12 Argentina 28.2% 2022 down 6.5% rising
13 Ecuador 26.7% 2022 up 60.9% rising
14 Costa Rica 26.6% 2022 up 16.7% rising
15 Uruguay 26.4% 2022 down 10.0% falling
16 Mongolia 24.4% 2020 down 2.2% falling
17 Colombia 23.5% 2022 up 6.7% flat
18 Moldova 23.3% 2018 up 1.6% rising
19 Mexico 21.1% 2022 up 20.9% rising
20 Poland 19.1% 2019 down 21.8% falling
21 Indonesia 18.5% 2022 up 138.6% rising
22 Peru 14.9% 2022 down 34.4% falling
23 Vietnam 14.8% 2020 down 17.1% falling
24 Chile 13.2% 2022 down 25.9% falling
25 Sri Lanka 12.8% 2019 up 33.3% rising
26 Paraguay 12.2% 2022 up 17.7% flat
27 El Salvador 12.2% 2022 up 20.6% rising
28 Romania 12.1% 2021 down 47.2% falling
29 Bolivia 10.6% 2021 down 0.7% flat
30 Pakistan 8.8% 2018 down 7.3% falling
31 Honduras 8.4% 2019 up 43.4% rising
32 Dominican Republic 8.3% 2021 down 15.1% rising
33 Cote d'Ivoire 7.5% 2021 up 2.5% falling
34 South Africa 7.3% 2021 down 16.4% falling
35 Thailand 4.1% 2021 down 0.3% falling

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 5th quintile (richest) (%) - 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)