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

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

Countries reporting
37
Highest
0.399 <$2.15 a day
Malawi
Lowest
0.0056 <$2.15 a day
Colombia
Median
0.0415 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
372

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Protection and Labor -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 37 countries. The highest value is 0.399 <$2.15 a day in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0056 <$2.15 a day in Colombia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0415 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.0572 <$2.15 a day.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 71.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 23 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 176.5%), and the largest decrease in South Africa (down 85.5%).

Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Protection and Labor -extreme poor: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 0.399 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 55.4% flat
2 Georgia 0.169 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 31.5% falling
3 Kyrgyzstan 0.1213 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 9.7% falling
4 Armenia 0.1192 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 10.2% flat
5 Indonesia 0.1086 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 66.8% falling
6 Republic of Moldova 0.0864 <$2.15 a day 2018 up 9.6% rising
7 Pakistan 0.082 <$2.15 a day 2018 up 8.6% falling
8 Romania 0.0709 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 29.4% falling
9 Serbia 0.0669 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 31.7% rising
10 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.0635 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 63.2% volatile
10 Kosovo 0.0635 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 63.2% volatile
12 Ukraine 0.0602 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 4.5% falling
13 Mongolia 0.0576 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 23.8% falling
14 Côte d'Ivoire 0.0556 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 71.9% volatile
15 Sri Lanka 0.0535 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 11.3% falling
16 Poland 0.053 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 8.3% falling
17 Belarus 0.0514 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 39.3% falling
18 South Africa 0.0419 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 85.5% volatile
19 Honduras 0.0415 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 9.7% rising
20 Kazakhstan 0.0409 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 176.5% rising
21 Thailand 0.038 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 23.3% rising
22 Viet Nam 0.0378 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 3.0% volatile
23 Brazil 0.0324 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 3.2% falling
24 Türkiye 0.0289 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 22.8% falling
25 Peru 0.0255 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 35.3% flat
26 Chile 0.0251 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 0.5% volatile
27 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.0184 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 79.0% volatile
28 Ecuador 0.0165 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 65.5% falling
29 Mexico 0.0147 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 79.8% falling
30 El Salvador 0.0142 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 56.1% volatile
31 Panama 0.0118 <$2.15 a day 2023 up 36.4% rising
32 Argentina 0.0094 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 75.2% volatile
33 Costa Rica 0.0088 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 43.4% volatile
34 Dominican Republic 0.0085 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 68.2% volatile
35 Uruguay 0.0079 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 21.3% volatile
36 Paraguay 0.0073 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 31.8% volatile
37 Colombia 0.0056 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 56.5% falling

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - All Social Protection and Labor -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day)
Unit
<$2.15 a day
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
37 places, 372 data points, 2002–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in SPL programs (%)