Average per capita transfer - All Social Assistance by country

Average transfer amount of Social Assistance programs among program beneficiaries (per capita, daily $ppp)

Countries reporting
33
Highest
3.98
Poland
Lowest
0.0512
Colombia
Median
1.03
Years covered
20
2004–2023
Data points
343

What the numbers show

Average per capita transfer - All Social Assistance is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 3.98 in Poland; the lowest is 0.0512 in Colombia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.03, and the mean is 1.32.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 78.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in El Salvador (up 31,254.5%), and the largest decrease in Honduras (down 91.4%).

Average per capita transfer - All Social Assistance: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Poland 3.98 2019 up 203.3% rising
2 Serbia 3.41 2022 up 80.2% rising
3 Chile 3.26 2022 up 532.9% volatile
4 Georgia 2.95 2021 up 90.4% rising
5 Belarus 2.26 2019 up 172.9% volatile
6 Kazakhstan 2.2 2021 up 291.3% rising
7 Brazil 2.18 2022 up 64.9% rising
8 Romania 2.11 2021 up 107.9% rising
9 Armenia 1.79 2022 up 140.4% volatile
10 Costa Rica 1.63 2022 up 154.3% volatile
11 Panama 1.61 2023 up 59.7% rising
12 Argentina 1.49 2022 up 13.9% rising
13 Mexico 1.43 2022 up 125.8% flat
14 Vietnam 1.31 2020 up 117.8% volatile
15 Moldova 1.18 2018 up 37.1% rising
16 Ecuador 1.06 2022 up 164.4% volatile
17 Uruguay 1.03 2022 up 316.8% rising
18 Turkey 0.9826 2019 up 70.8% rising
19 Mongolia 0.9057 2020 up 87.2% rising
20 Bolivia 0.8974 2021 up 37.9% falling
21 Kyrgyzstan 0.8892 2020 up 101.6% rising
22 Dominican Republic 0.7414 2021 up 124.7% rising
23 Paraguay 0.6383 2022 up 523.5% volatile
24 El Salvador 0.5812 2022 up 31,254.5% volatile
25 Ukraine 0.5585 2020 down 48.1% falling
26 Thailand 0.5523 2021 up 22.7% rising
27 Indonesia 0.5238 2022 up 79.3% rising
28 Sri Lanka 0.4294 2019 up 173.8% rising
29 Peru 0.4024 2022 up 1,003.6% volatile
30 Pakistan 0.1672 2018 down 80.6% volatile
31 Honduras 0.1522 2019 down 91.4% volatile
32 Malawi 0.0755 2019 up 1,458.2% volatile
33 Colombia 0.0512 2022 down 86.8% volatile

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
Average per capita transfer - All Social Assistance
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
34 places, 343 data points, 2004–2023
Last refreshed

Average transfer amount of Social Assistance programs among program beneficiaries (per capita, daily $ppp)