Beneficiary incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social Protection and Labor by country

Percentage of program beneficiaries in a quintile relative to the total number of beneficiaries in the population

Countries reporting
38
Highest
75.0%
Malawi
Lowest
0.0%
Poland
Median
0.9%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
373

What the numbers show

Beneficiary incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social Protection and Labor is currently reported for 38 countries. The highest value is 75.0% in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0% in Poland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9%, and the mean is 4.9%.

Over the past decade 7 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in Serbia (up 190.6%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 100.0%).

Beneficiary incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 75.0% 2019 down 0.2% falling
2 Honduras 24.0% 2019 up 49.2% rising
3 South Africa 23.4% 2021 up 20.3% falling
4 Colombia 7.8% 2022 up 42.1% rising
5 Georgia 7.0% 2021 down 47.8% falling
6 Pakistan 6.9% 2018 up 173.4% rising
7 Brazil 4.9% 2022 up 64.3% falling
8 Ecuador 4.3% 2022 down 32.5% falling
9 Indonesia 4.2% 2022 down 83.6% volatile
10 Côte d'Ivoire 4.1% 2021 down 87.6% volatile
11 Peru 3.0% 2022 down 49.8% volatile
12 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 2.6% 2021 down 76.5% falling
13 Paraguay 2.2% 2022 down 60.7% volatile
14 Panama 2.1% 2023 down 27.5% falling
15 Mexico 1.7% 2022 down 88.3% volatile
16 El Salvador 1.7% 2022 down 64.8% volatile
17 Sri Lanka 1.4% 2019 down 72.8% volatile
18 Costa Rica 1.2% 2022 down 39.2% falling
19 Armenia 1.0% 2022 down 26.6% falling
20 Kosovo 0.9% 2017 down 82.9% volatile
20 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.9% 2017 down 82.9% volatile
22 Viet Nam 0.7% 2020 down 85.3% volatile
23 Kyrgyzstan 0.7% 2020 down 45.5% volatile
24 Argentina 0.7% 2022 down 72.6% volatile
25 Dominican Republic 0.6% 2021 down 88.6% volatile
26 Serbia 0.5% 2022 up 190.6% volatile
27 Türkiye 0.4% 2019 down 70.8% volatile
28 Chile 0.3% 2022 down 83.0% volatile
29 Russian Federation 0.3% 2017 down 32.7% volatile
30 Uruguay 0.1% 2022 down 30.1% volatile
31 Belarus 0.1% 2013 down 52.2% falling
32 Kazakhstan 0.1% 2021 down 71.6% volatile
33 Thailand 0.0% 2021 down 67.9% volatile
34 Ukraine 0.0% 2020 up 64.6% volatile
35 Albania 0.0% 2018 down 93.5% volatile
36 Republic of Moldova 0.0% 2018 down 94.7% volatile
37 Mongolia 0.0% 2020 down 99.6% volatile
38 Poland 0.0% 2017 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Beneficiary incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social Protection and Labor
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
38 places, 373 data points, 2002–2023
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Percentage of program beneficiaries in a quintile relative to the total number of beneficiaries in the population