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Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Insurance -1st quintile (poorest) by country

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

Countries reporting
34
Highest
0.4802 poorest
Republic of Moldova
Lowest
0.0085 poorest
Honduras
Median
0.1509 poorest
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
347

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Insurance -1st quintile (poorest) is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 0.4802 poorest in Republic of Moldova; the lowest is 0.0085 poorest in Honduras.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1509 poorest, and the mean is 0.1933 poorest.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 57.

Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 9 fell. The largest increase was in Peru (up 80.2%), and the largest decrease in Ecuador (down 60.4%).

Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Insurance -1st quintile: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Republic of Moldova 0.4802 poorest 2018 up 27.8% rising
2 Belarus 0.4626 poorest 2019 up 8.5% rising
3 Ukraine 0.4598 poorest 2020 up 8.3% rising
4 Serbia 0.4002 poorest 2022 up 16.5% rising
5 Romania 0.3878 poorest 2021 up 7.7% rising
6 Poland 0.3666 poorest 2019 up 6.1% rising
7 Kyrgyzstan 0.3642 poorest 2020 up 9.6% rising
8 Armenia 0.3494 poorest 2022 down 2.6% flat
9 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.3473 poorest 2017 up 28.1% rising
9 Kosovo 0.3473 poorest 2017 up 28.1% rising
11 Kazakhstan 0.3333 poorest 2021 up 43.2% rising
12 Mongolia 0.3213 poorest 2020 up 16.5% rising
13 Chile 0.2052 poorest 2022 up 28.7% flat
14 Türkiye 0.1978 poorest 2019 up 26.4% rising
15 Thailand 0.1716 poorest 2021 up 40.4% rising
16 Sri Lanka 0.1559 poorest 2019 up 19.0% rising
17 Uruguay 0.1516 poorest 2022 up 8.0% rising
18 Pakistan 0.1502 poorest 2018 up 33.5% rising
19 Viet Nam 0.14 poorest 2020 up 46.7% rising
20 Argentina 0.1143 poorest 2022 down 27.7% falling
21 Brazil 0.0896 poorest 2022 down 23.4% falling
22 Côte d'Ivoire 0.0894 poorest 2021 down 32.9% falling
23 Dominican Republic 0.0861 poorest 2021 up 15.7% falling
24 Costa Rica 0.0642 poorest 2022 up 38.2% falling
25 Mexico 0.0526 poorest 2022 up 0.4% rising
26 Panama 0.0502 poorest 2023 up 54.7% rising
27 Peru 0.0496 poorest 2022 up 80.2% rising
28 South Africa 0.0439 poorest 2021 up 37.2% rising
29 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.035 poorest 2021 down 8.9% rising
30 Ecuador 0.031 poorest 2022 down 60.4% falling
31 El Salvador 0.0295 poorest 2022 down 39.1% falling
32 Colombia 0.02 poorest 2022 up 20.3% rising
33 Paraguay 0.0159 poorest 2022 down 0.2% falling
34 Honduras 0.0085 poorest 2019 down 50.5% volatile

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About this data

Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Insurance -1st quintile (poorest)
Unit
poorest
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
34 places, 347 data points, 2002–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Social Insurance programs (%)