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Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT) 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
70.2%
Georgia
Lowest
0.0%
Uruguay
Median
15.7%
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
222

What the numbers show

Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT) is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 70.2% in Georgia; the lowest is 0.0% in Uruguay.

The median across all reporting countries is 15.7%, and the mean is 19.9%.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Costa Rica (up 149.9%), and the largest decrease in Uruguay (down 100.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Georgia 70.2% 2021 up 6.2% rising
2 Armenia 54.1% 2022 up 55.3% rising
3 Serbia 40.0% 2022 up 67.3% rising
4 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 33.4% 2017 down 44.2% falling
4 Kosovo 33.4% 2017 down 44.2% falling
6 Mexico 31.3% 2020 down 6.9% falling
7 Viet Nam 28.4% 2020 up 70.8% falling
8 Costa Rica 22.7% 2022 up 149.9% rising
9 Kyrgyzstan 22.0% 2020 up 29.4% falling
10 Romania 20.5% 2021 down 28.1% falling
11 Sri Lanka 20.0% 2019 up 64.8% rising
12 Poland 18.6% 2019 down 5.5% falling
13 Belarus 15.9% 2019 up 26.6% volatile
14 Republic of Moldova 15.5% 2018 down 8.3% falling
15 Indonesia 15.5% 2022 down 67.0% volatile
16 Pakistan 15.5% 2018 down 56.6% falling
17 Türkiye 13.4% 2019 down 28.9% falling
18 Argentina 8.4% 2022 down 8.5% flat
19 Ukraine 8.2% 2018 down 36.3% falling
20 Mongolia 7.2% 2020 down 13.5% falling
21 Kazakhstan 6.9% 2021 down 8.1% volatile
22 Peru 6.2% 2022 — falling
23 Colombia 5.9% 2022 down 82.4% volatile
24 Chile 2.7% 2022 up 61.2% volatile
25 El Salvador 1.8% 2022 down 84.4% volatile
26 Uruguay 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Benefits incidence in extreme poor (<$2.15 a day) (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers (preT)
Unit
preT
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
26 places, 222 data points, 2004–2022
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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