Coverage (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban by country

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
59.6%
Armenia
Lowest
4.1%
South Africa
Median
22.7%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 59.6% in Armenia; the lowest is 4.1% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.7%, and the mean is 25.5%.

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

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 128.1%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 39.0%).

Coverage (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 59.6% 2022 up 10.5% flat
2 Serbia 55.0% 2022 down 4.9% falling
3 Ukraine 50.7% 2020 up 3.4% flat
4 Russia 48.7% 2017 up 15.1% rising
5 Belarus 48.1% 2019 up 24.0% rising
6 Moldova 44.9% 2018 up 16.6% rising
7 Albania 44.5% 2018 up 4.3% volatile
8 Kyrgyzstan 41.6% 2020 down 7.4% rising
9 Poland 38.7% 2019 down 7.2% falling
10 Romania 36.5% 2021 down 11.7% falling
11 Kazakhstan 36.4% 2021 up 38.0% rising
12 Turkey 36.3% 2019 up 6.2% rising
13 Mongolia 34.3% 2020 down 6.2% flat
14 Uruguay 33.4% 2022 down 4.9% falling
15 Argentina 31.6% 2022 up 9.1% rising
16 Brazil 27.9% 2022 down 0.3% falling
17 Costa Rica 24.5% 2022 up 30.1% rising
18 Panama 22.7% 2023 up 34.0% rising
19 Chile 22.3% 2022 up 3.4% falling
20 Mexico 19.0% 2022 up 19.0% rising
21 Ecuador 17.7% 2022 up 27.2% rising
22 Vietnam 15.7% 2020 down 6.8% falling
23 Colombia 12.7% 2022 up 15.1% rising
24 Sri Lanka 11.1% 2019 up 8.5% rising
25 Indonesia 10.8% 2022 up 128.1% rising
26 Peru 9.6% 2022 down 39.0% falling
27 El Salvador 8.6% 2022 up 12.8% rising
28 Paraguay 8.0% 2022 up 3.5% falling
29 Pakistan 7.4% 2018 down 1.3% falling
30 Bolivia 7.2% 2021 down 6.9% flat
31 Dominican Republic 6.5% 2021 down 17.6% flat
32 Cote d'Ivoire 6.4% 2021 down 36.0% falling
33 Thailand 6.2% 2021 up 14.4% rising
34 Honduras 5.4% 2019 up 23.2% rising
35 South Africa 4.1% 2021 down 5.9% flat

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 (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban
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)