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Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social Protection and Labor by country

Percentage of benefits going to the extreme poor (those below $125 a day) relative to the total benefits going to the population

Countries reporting
36
Highest
32.3%
Malawi
Lowest
0.0%
Poland
Median
0.3%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
355

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social Protection and Labor is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 32.3% in Malawi; the lowest is 0.0% in Poland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.3%, and the mean is 1.6%.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 27 fell. The largest increase was in Ukraine (up 3,525.4%), and the largest decrease in Thailand (down 100.0%).

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 32.3% 2019 up 55.7% falling
2 Georgia 5.5% 2021 down 53.4% falling
3 Indonesia 4.8% 2022 down 76.3% falling
4 Honduras 3.5% 2019 up 143.2% volatile
5 Peru 1.2% 2022 down 6.4% falling
6 Pakistan 1.1% 2018 up 95.7% flat
7 El Salvador 1.1% 2022 up 1,432.6% volatile
8 Ecuador 0.8% 2022 down 53.2% volatile
9 Brazil 0.7% 2022 up 195.0% rising
10 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.7% 2021 down 89.0% volatile
11 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.6% 2017 down 88.8% volatile
11 Kosovo 0.6% 2017 down 88.8% volatile
13 Armenia 0.6% 2022 down 39.4% falling
14 Kyrgyzstan 0.4% 2020 down 48.5% volatile
15 Sri Lanka 0.4% 2019 down 45.5% volatile
16 Mexico 0.4% 2022 down 90.7% volatile
17 Paraguay 0.4% 2022 down 45.1% volatile
18 Panama 0.3% 2023 up 17.3% falling
19 Serbia 0.2% 2022 up 410.5% volatile
20 Dominican Republic 0.2% 2021 down 82.0% volatile
21 Costa Rica 0.1% 2022 down 20.1% volatile
22 Argentina 0.1% 2022 down 87.5% volatile
23 Viet Nam 0.1% 2020 down 31.2% volatile
24 Colombia 0.1% 2022 down 88.1% volatile
25 Côte d'Ivoire 0.1% 2021 down 99.3% volatile
26 Republic of Moldova 0.0% 2018 down 77.3% volatile
27 Kazakhstan 0.0% 2021 down 59.0% volatile
28 Chile 0.0% 2022 down 87.9% volatile
29 South Africa 0.0% 2021 down 99.8% volatile
30 Türkiye 0.0% 2019 down 63.3% volatile
31 Belarus 0.0% 2013 down 42.9% volatile
32 Ukraine 0.0% 2020 up 3,525.4% volatile
33 Uruguay 0.0% 2022 up 1,908.2% volatile
34 Mongolia 0.0% 2020 down 99.6% volatile
35 Thailand 0.0% 2021 down 100.0% volatile
35 Poland 0.0% 2017 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) -All Social Protection and Labor
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 355 data points, 2002–2023
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Percentage of benefits going to the extreme poor (those below $125 a day) relative to the total benefits going to the population