Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers - 1st quintile (poorest) -urban by country
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Cash Transfers programs (%)
Countries reporting
25
Highest
0.6483
Costa Rica
Lowest
0.042
Uruguay
Median
0.459
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
211
What the numbers show
Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers - 1st quintile (poorest) -urban is currently reported for 25 countries. The highest value is 0.6483 in Costa Rica; the lowest is 0.042 in Uruguay.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.459, and the mean is 0.4283.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 15.
Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Pakistan (up 84.1%), and the largest decrease in Indonesia (down 51.2%).
Benefit-cost ratio - Unconditional Cash Transfers - 1st quintile: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costa Rica | 0.6483 | 2022 | up 20.5% | rising |
| 2 | Serbia | 0.624 | 2022 | up 33.8% | rising |
| 3 | Georgia | 0.593 | 2021 | up 29.4% | rising |
| 4 | Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) | 0.5861 | 2017 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 4 | Kosovo | 0.5861 | 2017 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 6 | Türkiye | 0.575 | 2019 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 7 | Argentina | 0.5308 | 2022 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 0.5058 | 2021 | down 10.2% | flat |
| 9 | Belarus | 0.4979 | 2019 | up 32.1% | rising |
| 10 | Sri Lanka | 0.4896 | 2019 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 11 | Poland | 0.4798 | 2019 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 12 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.4789 | 2020 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 13 | Republic of Moldova | 0.459 | 2018 | up 45.1% | rising |
| 14 | Romania | 0.4395 | 2021 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 15 | Ukraine | 0.4265 | 2018 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 16 | Chile | 0.4072 | 2022 | up 32.6% | rising |
| 17 | Armenia | 0.3941 | 2022 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 18 | Pakistan | 0.3803 | 2018 | up 84.1% | rising |
| 19 | Mongolia | 0.3562 | 2020 | up 49.7% | rising |
| 20 | Colombia | 0.2815 | 2022 | down 29.8% | falling |
| 21 | Indonesia | 0.2539 | 2022 | down 51.2% | falling |
| 22 | Peru | 0.2517 | 2022 | — | rising |
| 23 | Viet Nam | 0.2453 | 2020 | up 46.0% | volatile |
| 24 | El Salvador | 0.1743 | 2022 | down 50.7% | falling |
| 25 | Uruguay | 0.042 | 2022 | down 26.0% | falling |
About this data
Poverty gap reduction obtained for each $1 spent in Cash Transfers programs (%)