Coverage (%) - All Social Insurance -urban by country

Percentage of population participating in Social Insurance programs (includes direct and indirect beneficiaries)

Countries reporting
35
Highest
59.6%
Armenia
Lowest
4.1%
South Africa
Median
27.9%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Coverage (%) - All Social Insurance -urban is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 59.6% in Armenia; the lowest is 4.1% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 27.9%, and the mean is 27.0%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 14.

Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Chile (up 82.9%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 55.9%).

Coverage (%) - All Social Insurance -urban: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 59.6% 2022 up 10.5% flat
2 Serbia 55.8% 2022 down 4.0% flat
3 Russia 54.9% 2017 up 29.7% rising
4 Ukraine 50.7% 2020 up 3.4% flat
5 Belarus 48.1% 2019 up 24.0% rising
6 Moldova 45.0% 2018 up 16.9% rising
7 Albania 44.5% 2018 up 2.7% volatile
8 Chile 44.3% 2022 up 82.9% rising
9 Kyrgyzstan 41.7% 2020 down 7.7% rising
10 Poland 40.6% 2019 down 4.2% falling
11 Mongolia 39.5% 2020 down 13.6% falling
12 Turkey 37.2% 2019 up 8.7% rising
13 Romania 36.8% 2021 down 18.5% falling
14 Kazakhstan 36.4% 2021 up 38.0% rising
15 Uruguay 35.0% 2022 down 4.8% falling
16 Argentina 31.6% 2022 up 9.1% rising
17 Panama 28.0% 2023 up 32.8% rising
18 Brazil 27.9% 2022 down 0.3% falling
19 Costa Rica 24.5% 2022 up 30.1% rising
20 Vietnam 19.9% 2020 down 25.1% falling
21 Mexico 19.2% 2022 up 20.2% rising
22 Ecuador 17.7% 2022 up 27.2% rising
23 Indonesia 12.8% 2022 down 6.5% rising
24 Colombia 12.7% 2022 up 15.1% rising
25 Sri Lanka 11.1% 2019 up 8.5% rising
26 Peru 9.6% 2022 down 39.0% falling
27 El Salvador 8.6% 2022 up 12.8% flat
28 Bolivia 8.5% 2021 down 23.5% falling
29 Paraguay 8.0% 2022 up 3.5% falling
30 Pakistan 7.4% 2018 down 1.3% falling
31 Thailand 6.5% 2021 up 21.0% rising
32 Dominican Republic 6.5% 2021 down 17.6% flat
33 Cote d'Ivoire 6.4% 2021 down 55.9% falling
34 Honduras 5.4% 2019 up 23.2% rising
35 South Africa 4.1% 2021 down 5.9% flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Coverage (%) - All Social Insurance -urban
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 364 data points, 2002–2023
Last refreshed

Percentage of population participating in Social Insurance programs (includes direct and indirect beneficiaries)