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Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Assistance -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) by country

Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Social Assistance programs (%)

Countries reporting
35
Highest
0.7507 <$2.15 a day
Malawi
Lowest
0.0004 <$2.15 a day
Ukraine
Median
0.0359 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
20
2004–2023
Data points
348

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Assistance -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 0.7507 <$2.15 a day in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0004 <$2.15 a day in Ukraine.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0359 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.0768 <$2.15 a day.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,823.

Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 23 fell. The largest increase was in Uruguay (up 747.1%), and the largest decrease in Ukraine (down 97.0%).

Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Assistance -extreme poor: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 0.7507 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 2.0% falling
2 Honduras 0.2105 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 309.9% rising
3 Georgia 0.169 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 31.5% falling
4 Armenia 0.1298 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 37.3% rising
5 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.1154 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 58.3% falling
5 Kosovo 0.1154 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 58.3% falling
7 Pakistan 0.1126 <$2.15 a day 2018 up 1.8% rising
8 Brazil 0.1091 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 64.7% rising
9 Indonesia 0.1086 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 66.8% falling
10 Colombia 0.0765 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 4.9% falling
11 Serbia 0.0748 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 42.3% rising
12 Sri Lanka 0.0727 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 34.6% falling
13 Ecuador 0.0639 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 50.1% falling
14 Peru 0.0573 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 79.2% volatile
15 Kyrgyzstan 0.0566 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 12.5% volatile
16 Viet Nam 0.0441 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 25.2% volatile
17 Costa Rica 0.0375 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 42.9% flat
18 Argentina 0.0359 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 29.1% falling
19 Panama 0.0354 <$2.15 a day 2023 up 6.8% falling
20 Romania 0.0345 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 21.0% falling
21 Türkiye 0.0339 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 23.1% falling
22 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.0314 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 78.2% falling
23 Mexico 0.0314 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 87.1% volatile
24 El Salvador 0.0304 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 72.7% volatile
25 Poland 0.0274 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 8.2% falling
26 Paraguay 0.0237 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 76.3% volatile
27 Mongolia 0.0209 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 37.5% volatile
28 Belarus 0.0182 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 48.4% volatile
29 Republic of Moldova 0.0177 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 52.5% falling
30 Uruguay 0.0154 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 747.1% volatile
31 Kazakhstan 0.0107 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 61.3% volatile
32 Dominican Republic 0.0103 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 83.7% volatile
33 Chile 0.0049 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 86.6% volatile
34 Thailand 0.0011 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 94.8% volatile
35 Ukraine 0.0004 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 97.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Assistance -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day)
Unit
<$2.15 a day
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
35 places, 348 data points, 2004–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Social Assistance programs (%)