Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
26
Highest
3.63 preT
Costa Rica
Lowest
0.0899 preT
El Salvador
Median
1.05 preT
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
220

What the numbers show

Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT) is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 3.63 preT in Costa Rica; the lowest is 0.0899 preT in El Salvador.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.05 preT, and the mean is 1.25 preT.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 40.

Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Romania (up 357.7%), and the largest decrease in Colombia (down 88.7%).

Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Costa Rica 3.63 preT 2022 up 206.6% rising
2 Belarus 3.49 preT 2019 up 186.7% volatile
3 Poland 3.23 preT 2019 up 149.5% rising
4 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 2.07 preT 2017 up 26.8% rising
4 Kosovo 2.07 preT 2017 up 26.8% rising
6 Serbia 1.76 preT 2022 down 15.9% rising
7 Kazakhstan 1.72 preT 2021 up 348.2% volatile
8 Argentina 1.67 preT 2022 up 21.3% rising
9 Romania 1.5 preT 2021 up 357.7% volatile
10 Republic of Moldova 1.26 preT 2018 up 43.6% rising
11 Armenia 1.23 preT 2022 up 8.1% rising
12 Türkiye 1.18 preT 2019 down 46.0% volatile
13 Viet Nam 1.05 preT 2020 down 18.1% volatile
14 Kyrgyzstan 1.05 preT 2020 up 212.3% rising
15 Ukraine 0.9365 preT 2018 up 25.5% rising
16 Georgia 0.916 preT 2021 up 1.1% rising
17 Pakistan 0.5403 preT 2018 down 43.3% falling
18 Mongolia 0.5171 preT 2020 up 31.2% falling
19 Sri Lanka 0.4958 preT 2019 up 300.2% volatile
20 Mexico 0.489 preT 2020 down 38.6% falling
21 Chile 0.4307 preT 2022 up 219.3% volatile
22 Uruguay 0.4051 preT 2022 down 4.1% flat
23 Peru 0.2779 preT 2022 volatile
24 Indonesia 0.2551 preT 2022 down 67.0% volatile
25 Colombia 0.1313 preT 2022 down 88.7% volatile
26 El Salvador 0.0899 preT 2022 down 6.1% volatile

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Indicator
Average per capita transfer held by 5th quintile (richest) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT)
Unit
preT
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
26 places, 220 data points, 2004–2022
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Average transfer amount of Cash Transfers programs among program beneficiaries (per capita, daily $ppp)