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Benefit-cost ratio - Domestic Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) by country

Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Domestic Private Transfers programs (%)

Countries reporting
31
Highest
0.4082 <$2.15 a day
Malawi
Lowest
0.0012 <$2.15 a day
Poland
Median
0.0293 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
21
2003–2023
Data points
318

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - Domestic Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 31 countries. The highest value is 0.4082 <$2.15 a day in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0012 <$2.15 a day in Poland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0293 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.0528 <$2.15 a day.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 352.

Over the past decade 10 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 81.7%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 91.8%).

Benefit-cost ratio - Domestic Private Transfers -extreme poor: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 0.4082 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 15.0% falling
2 Pakistan 0.1734 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 28.7% falling
3 Honduras 0.1181 <$2.15 a day 2019 up 30.2% flat
4 Georgia 0.1 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 4.4% falling
5 Burkina Faso 0.0769 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 82.9% volatile
6 Colombia 0.0743 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 14.2% rising
7 Sri Lanka 0.0641 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 10.0% falling
8 Kyrgyzstan 0.0632 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 12.0% falling
9 Armenia 0.0577 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 41.3% falling
10 Thailand 0.0469 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 8.2% rising
11 Dominican Republic 0.0453 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 41.1% falling
12 Vietnam 0.0444 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 0.7% volatile
13 Romania 0.0414 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 24.0% rising
14 Mongolia 0.0387 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 11.0% falling
15 Ecuador 0.0356 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 42.0% falling
16 Paraguay 0.0293 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 20.7% falling
17 Brazil 0.0284 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 67.6% falling
18 Mexico 0.0276 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 81.4% volatile
19 Moldova 0.0258 <$2.15 a day 2018 up 29.4% falling
20 Costa Rica 0.0223 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 7.3% falling
21 Bolivia 0.0214 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 75.7% falling
22 Peru 0.0174 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 6.6% volatile
23 Turkey 0.0156 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 61.1% volatile
24 Argentina 0.0153 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 56.6% falling
25 Panama 0.0094 <$2.15 a day 2023 up 7.9% volatile
26 Uruguay 0.0094 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 61.8% volatile
27 Chile 0.0087 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 78.9% volatile
28 Kazakhstan 0.0081 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 81.7% rising
29 El Salvador 0.0053 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 90.0% volatile
30 Belarus 0.0046 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 62.5% volatile
31 Poland 0.0012 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 91.8% falling

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - Domestic Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day)
Unit
<$2.15 a day
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
31 places, 318 data points, 2003–2023
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Domestic Private Transfers programs (%)