Coverage (%) -All Social Protection and Labor -urban by country

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

Countries reporting
36
Highest
96.3%
Bolivia
Lowest
12.9%
Cote d'Ivoire
Median
59.5%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
385

What the numbers show

Coverage (%) -All Social Protection and Labor -urban is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 96.3% in Bolivia; the lowest is 12.9% in Cote d'Ivoire.

The median across all reporting countries is 59.5%, and the mean is 59.2%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Vietnam (up 77.4%), and the largest decrease in Cote d'Ivoire (down 57.5%).

Coverage (%) -All Social Protection and Labor -urban: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bolivia 96.3% 2021 up 30.4% rising
2 Mongolia 93.0% 2020 down 4.0% flat
3 Vietnam 90.4% 2020 up 77.4% volatile
4 El Salvador 88.3% 2022 down 0.1% rising
5 Chile 85.0% 2022 up 2.9% falling
6 Thailand 80.4% 2021 up 59.7% rising
7 Peru 79.9% 2022 down 11.5% rising
8 Romania 77.6% 2021 down 4.5% falling
9 Poland 75.9% 2019 up 14.1% falling
10 Russia 75.2% 2017 up 33.9% rising
11 Panama 73.8% 2023 up 29.6% rising
12 Armenia 73.3% 2022 up 11.4% rising
14 Belarus 71.6% 2019 down 0.8% flat
15 Uruguay 71.5% 2022 down 10.4% falling
16 Costa Rica 68.1% 2022 up 6.8% rising
17 Georgia 62.0% 2021 up 6.8% rising
18 Indonesia 61.5% 2022 up 44.4% rising
19 Serbia 60.2% 2022 down 8.9% falling
20 Ukraine 58.8% 2020 down 14.6% flat
21 Argentina 56.6% 2022 up 37.9% rising
22 Moldova 55.7% 2018 up 7.2% rising
23 Kazakhstan 53.9% 2021 up 17.2% rising
24 Paraguay 50.4% 2022 down 14.1% rising
25 Turkey 49.3% 2019 up 8.4% falling
26 Brazil 49.1% 2022 up 7.9% rising
27 Dominican Republic 49.0% 2021 up 63.9% rising
28 Albania 48.5% 2018 down 24.4% volatile
29 Mexico 45.5% 2022 up 18.5% rising
30 Kyrgyzstan 44.5% 2020 down 27.1% falling
31 Colombia 37.0% 2022 down 21.6% falling
32 Ecuador 36.2% 2022 down 45.9% falling
33 Sri Lanka 28.4% 2019 up 6.7% rising
34 Malawi 28.3% 2019 up 10.9% rising
35 Honduras 23.7% 2019 down 41.6% falling
36 Pakistan 19.5% 2018 up 75.3% rising
37 Cote d'Ivoire 12.9% 2021 down 57.5% falling

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 Protection and Labor -urban
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
38 places, 385 data points, 2002–2023
Last refreshed

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