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Average per capita transfer held by extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT) by country

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

Countries reporting
24
Highest
7.87 preT
Viet Nam
Lowest
0.0315 preT
Colombia
Median
1.48 preT
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
208

What the numbers show

Average per capita transfer held by extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT) is currently reported for 24 countries. The highest value is 7.87 preT in Viet Nam; the lowest is 0.0315 preT in Colombia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.48 preT, and the mean is 2.12 preT.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 250.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Sri Lanka (up 613.2%), and the largest decrease in Colombia (down 98.2%).

Average per capita transfer held by extreme poor (<$2.15 a day): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Viet Nam 7.87 preT 2020 up 179.5% volatile
2 Poland 5.99 preT 2019 up 96.4% rising
3 Belarus 5.54 preT 2019 up 220.8% volatile
4 Romania 4.61 preT 2021 up 128.1% volatile
5 Serbia 3.66 preT 2022 up 45.2% rising
6 Armenia 2.9 preT 2022 up 122.7% volatile
7 Ukraine 2.78 preT 2018 up 76.9% rising
8 Kazakhstan 2.34 preT 2021 up 525.6% volatile
9 Republic of Moldova 2.18 preT 2018 up 33.0% rising
10 Argentina 1.85 preT 2022 up 11.5% rising
11 Kosovo 1.74 preT 2017 up 19.2% rising
12 Georgia 1.66 preT 2021 up 65.9% rising
13 Sri Lanka 1.3 preT 2019 up 613.2% volatile
14 Costa Rica 1.25 preT 2022 up 23.0% rising
15 Mongolia 1.23 preT 2020 up 151.5% rising
16 Türkiye 0.92 preT 2019 up 20.4% rising
17 Kyrgyzstan 0.898 preT 2020 up 49.3% rising
18 Mexico 0.831 preT 2020 down 25.5% volatile
19 Chile 0.4458 preT 2022 up 48.1% volatile
20 Indonesia 0.316 preT 2022 down 52.4% volatile
21 Peru 0.2456 preT 2022 — volatile
22 Pakistan 0.1504 preT 2018 down 92.0% volatile
23 El Salvador 0.0586 preT 2022 up 267.0% volatile
24 Colombia 0.0315 preT 2022 down 98.2% volatile

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Indicator
Average per capita transfer held by extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT)
Unit
preT
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
24 places, 208 data points, 2004–2022
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Average transfer amount of Cash Transfers programs among program beneficiaries (per capita, daily $ppp)