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

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

Countries reporting
27
Highest
0.2621 <$2.15 a day
South Africa
Lowest
0 <$2.15 a day
Uruguay
Median
0.0377 <$2.15 a day
Years covered
20
2003–2022
Data points
266

What the numbers show

Benefit-cost ratio - International Private Transfers -extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 0.2621 <$2.15 a day in South Africa; the lowest is 0 <$2.15 a day in Uruguay.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0377 <$2.15 a day, and the mean is 0.0588 <$2.15 a day.

Over the past decade 10 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Colombia (up 345.6%), and the largest decrease in Uruguay (down 100.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 South Africa 0.2621 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 2.5% flat
2 Kyrgyzstan 0.1636 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 24.8% falling
3 Pakistan 0.1542 <$2.15 a day 2018 down 33.0% falling
4 Armenia 0.1466 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 21.8% falling
5 Burkina Faso 0.1365 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 67.0% volatile
6 Georgia 0.0892 <$2.15 a day 2021 up 26.2% rising
7 Republic of Moldova 0.0818 <$2.15 a day 2018 up 28.1% rising
8 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.0634 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 59.0% falling
8 Kosovo 0.0634 <$2.15 a day 2017 down 59.0% falling
10 Sri Lanka 0.0595 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 10.2% falling
11 Honduras 0.0591 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 14.9% falling
12 Mongolia 0.0502 <$2.15 a day 2020 up 3.5% falling
13 Viet Nam 0.0442 <$2.15 a day 2020 down 5.9% falling
14 Serbia 0.0377 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 19.0% rising
15 Mexico 0.0321 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 63.0% falling
16 Colombia 0.0287 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 345.6% volatile
17 Paraguay 0.0278 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 25.1% rising
18 Dominican Republic 0.025 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 19.6% falling
19 Türkiye 0.0249 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 14.9% falling
20 Costa Rica 0.0147 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 5.7% falling
21 Ecuador 0.0066 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 81.9% volatile
22 Chile 0.006 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 55.6% falling
23 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.0058 <$2.15 a day 2021 down 69.8% falling
24 Peru 0.0038 <$2.15 a day 2022 up 73.2% volatile
25 El Salvador 0.0014 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 96.8% falling
26 Poland 0.0005 <$2.15 a day 2019 down 98.7% falling
27 Uruguay 0 <$2.15 a day 2022 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefit-cost ratio - International 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
27 places, 266 data points, 2003–2022
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Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in International Private Transfers programs (%)