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Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - International Private Transfers 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
26
Highest
8.7%
Burkina Faso
Lowest
0.0%
Mongolia
Median
0.1%
Years covered
20
2003–2022
Data points
264

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - International Private Transfers is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 8.7% in Burkina Faso; the lowest is 0.0% in Mongolia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1%, and the mean is 0.9%.

Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Colombia (up 86.5%), and the largest decrease in Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) (down 100.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Burkina Faso 8.7% 2021 down 72.3% volatile
2 South Africa 8.6% 2021 up 10.0% volatile
3 Colombia 1.2% 2022 up 86.5% volatile
4 Honduras 1.1% 2019 down 78.8% volatile
5 Pakistan 0.8% 2018 down 41.4% volatile
6 Armenia 0.8% 2022 down 11.2% volatile
7 Georgia 0.5% 2021 down 77.6% volatile
8 Dominican Republic 0.2% 2021 down 5.0% volatile
9 Mexico 0.2% 2022 down 91.8% volatile
10 Paraguay 0.2% 2022 down 74.8% volatile
11 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.1% 2021 down 51.2% volatile
12 Kyrgyzstan 0.1% 2020 down 21.7% volatile
13 El Salvador 0.1% 2022 down 88.3% falling
14 Costa Rica 0.1% 2022 down 55.3% volatile
15 Sri Lanka 0.0% 2019 down 95.8% volatile
16 Viet Nam 0.0% 2020 — volatile
17 Republic of Moldova 0.0% 2018 down 85.2% volatile
18 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 0.0% 2017 down 100.0% volatile
18 Ecuador 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
18 Kosovo 0.0% 2017 down 100.0% volatile
18 Uruguay 0.0% 2022 — volatile
18 Türkiye 0.0% 2019 — volatile
18 Poland 0.0% 2017 — volatile
18 Peru 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
18 Chile 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
18 Mongolia 0.0% 2020 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - International Private Transfers
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
27 places, 264 data points, 2003–2022
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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