Coverage (%) - Contributory Pensions by country

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

Countries reporting
35
Highest
60.2%
Armenia
Lowest
3.3%
Honduras
Median
21.7%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage (%) - Contributory Pensions is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 60.2% in Armenia; the lowest is 3.3% in Honduras.

The median across all reporting countries is 21.7%, and the mean is 25.0%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 18.

Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Indonesia (up 140.9%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 34.2%).

Coverage (%) - Contributory Pensions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 60.2% 2022 up 12.9% flat
2 Serbia 56.3% 2022 up 0.8% flat
3 Ukraine 54.6% 2020 up 5.2% flat
4 Russia 50.1% 2017 up 19.6% rising
5 Kyrgyzstan 49.2% 2020 up 23.1% rising
6 Moldova 47.8% 2018 up 16.9% rising
7 Belarus 47.7% 2019 up 16.6% rising
8 Albania 44.5% 2018 down 2.4% volatile
9 Poland 43.2% 2019 down 4.4% falling
10 Romania 38.9% 2021 down 12.7% falling
11 Kazakhstan 38.5% 2021 up 33.1% rising
12 Turkey 36.3% 2019 up 9.7% rising
13 Uruguay 33.3% 2022 down 4.9% falling
14 Mongolia 32.4% 2020 down 5.0% flat
15 Argentina 31.6% 2022 up 9.1% rising
16 Brazil 28.3% 2022 down 0.2% flat
17 Chile 23.1% 2022 up 9.4% flat
18 Costa Rica 21.7% 2022 up 44.2% rising
19 Panama 18.6% 2023 up 37.9% rising
20 Mexico 16.0% 2022 up 22.2% rising
21 Ecuador 14.9% 2022 up 39.2% rising
22 Colombia 10.6% 2022 up 18.7% rising
23 Vietnam 9.5% 2020 up 5.9% falling
24 Sri Lanka 8.5% 2019 up 28.0% rising
25 Peru 8.1% 2022 down 34.1% falling
26 Indonesia 7.7% 2022 up 140.9% rising
27 El Salvador 6.7% 2022 up 22.8% rising
28 Pakistan 6.4% 2018 down 5.4% falling
29 Dominican Republic 5.8% 2021 down 4.9% rising
30 Bolivia 5.8% 2021 up 1.7% rising
31 Paraguay 5.7% 2022 up 8.9% flat
32 Thailand 4.2% 2021 up 57.2% rising
33 Cote d'Ivoire 3.8% 2021 down 34.2% volatile
34 South Africa 3.4% 2021 down 0.6% flat
35 Honduras 3.3% 2019 up 42.4% 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 (%) - 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)