Poverty Headcount reduction (%) - Contributory Pensions -1st quintile (poorest) -rural by country
Poverty headcount reduction due to Contributory Pensions programs as % of pre-transfer poverty headcount
What the numbers show
Poverty Headcount reduction (%) - Contributory Pensions -1st quintile (poorest) -rural is currently reported for 29 countries. The highest value is 59.7% in Belarus; the lowest is 0.9% in Cote d'Ivoire.
The median across all reporting countries is 18.7%, and the mean is 26.8%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 64.
Over the past decade 23 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Bolivia (up 371.7%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 65.0%).
Poverty Headcount reduction (%) - Contributory Pensions -1st quintile: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belarus | 59.7% | 2019 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 2 | Romania | 57.3% | 2021 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 3 | Ukraine | 57.1% | 2020 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 4 | Poland | 57.0% | 2019 | up 2.6% | falling |
| 5 | Moldova | 56.8% | 2018 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 6 | Serbia | 54.8% | 2022 | down 6.1% | flat |
| 7 | Kyrgyzstan | 52.2% | 2020 | up 37.4% | rising |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 51.5% | 2021 | up 111.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Armenia | 47.8% | 2022 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 10 | Mongolia | 43.1% | 2020 | up 59.8% | rising |
| 11 | Uruguay | 40.5% | 2022 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 12 | Turkey | 39.8% | 2013 | up 30.8% | rising |
| 13 | Brazil | 39.6% | 2022 | up 37.6% | rising |
| 14 | Chile | 35.5% | 2022 | up 112.0% | rising |
| 15 | Costa Rica | 18.7% | 2022 | up 116.1% | rising |
| 16 | Sri Lanka | 11.0% | 2019 | up 41.6% | rising |
| 17 | Pakistan | 10.0% | 2018 | up 58.8% | rising |
| 18 | Vietnam | 8.7% | 2020 | up 33.4% | falling |
| 19 | Thailand | 8.6% | 2021 | up 171.7% | volatile |
| 20 | Mexico | 5.0% | 2022 | up 61.3% | rising |
| 21 | Panama | 4.1% | 2023 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 22 | Ecuador | 3.8% | 2022 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 23 | South Africa | 3.4% | 2021 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 24 | Dominican Republic | 3.3% | 2019 | up 48.8% | rising |
| 25 | Bolivia | 2.4% | 2021 | up 371.7% | rising |
| 26 | Colombia | 2.1% | 2022 | up 220.4% | volatile |
| 27 | Peru | 1.3% | 2022 | up 23.9% | rising |
| 28 | El Salvador | 1.2% | 2022 | down 25.6% | rising |
| 29 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.9% | 2021 | down 65.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 37.2%
About this data
Poverty headcount reduction due to Contributory Pensions programs as % of pre-transfer poverty headcount