Poverty Headcount reduction (%) - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) 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 -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 30 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Poland; the lowest is 0.4% in El Salvador.
The median across all reporting countries is 64.9%, and the mean is 57.1%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 266.
Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Costa Rica (up 207.5%), and the largest decrease in El Salvador (down 94.8%).
Poverty Headcount reduction (%) - Contributory Pensions -extreme poor: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poland | 100.0% | 2019 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% | 2019 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 1 | Romania | 100.0% | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 4 | Mongolia | 99.9% | 2020 | up 24.5% | rising |
| 5 | Moldova | 99.8% | 2018 | up 4.9% | flat |
| 6 | Ukraine | 99.8% | 2020 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 99.4% | 2021 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 8 | Thailand | 98.3% | 2021 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 9 | Serbia | 98.2% | 2022 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 10 | Kyrgyzstan | 95.3% | 2020 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 11 | Turkey | 95.1% | 2019 | up 16.8% | rising |
| 12 | Armenia | 94.1% | 2022 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 13 | Uruguay | 94.0% | 2022 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 14 | Chile | 83.1% | 2022 | up 48.9% | rising |
| 15 | Argentina | 69.4% | 2022 | down 10.1% | flat |
| 16 | Sri Lanka | 60.3% | 2019 | up 132.5% | rising |
| 17 | Vietnam | 52.5% | 2020 | up 111.9% | volatile |
| 18 | Brazil | 50.1% | 2022 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 19 | Costa Rica | 43.4% | 2022 | up 207.5% | rising |
| 21 | Pakistan | 21.9% | 2018 | up 108.3% | rising |
| 23 | Dominican Republic | 15.5% | 2021 | up 83.7% | rising |
| 24 | Ecuador | 11.3% | 2022 | down 49.8% | falling |
| 25 | Colombia | 9.0% | 2022 | up 30.0% | rising |
| 26 | Peru | 7.9% | 2022 | up 108.7% | rising |
| 27 | South Africa | 6.1% | 2021 | up 55.3% | rising |
| 28 | Cote d'Ivoire | 4.1% | 2021 | up 4.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Paraguay | 1.3% | 2022 | up 136.0% | rising |
| 30 | Bolivia | 1.2% | 2021 | down 77.3% | falling |
| 31 | Honduras | 0.9% | 2019 | down 5.1% | falling |
| 32 | El Salvador | 0.4% | 2022 | down 94.8% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 89.2%
About this data
Poverty headcount reduction due to Contributory Pensions programs as % of pre-transfer poverty headcount