Coverage (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -urban by country

Percentage of population participating in Cash Transfers programs (includes direct and indirect beneficiaries)

Countries reporting
27
Highest
87.3%
Vietnam
Lowest
2.6%
Costa Rica
Median
20.0%
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
240

What the numbers show

Coverage (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -urban is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 87.3% in Vietnam; the lowest is 2.6% in Costa Rica.

The median across all reporting countries is 20.0%, and the mean is 28.1%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 33.

Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Thailand (up 3,626.1%), and the largest decrease in Serbia (down 70.9%).

Coverage (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -urban: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Vietnam 87.3% 2020 up 263.0% volatile
2 Mongolia 83.9% 2020 down 5.9% falling
3 Thailand 63.4% 2021 up 3,626.1% volatile
4 Russia 54.8% 2017 up 194.7% rising
5 Peru 52.6% 2022 volatile
6 South Africa 49.1% 2021 up 43.6% rising
7 Romania 48.5% 2021 down 0.7% flat
8 Poland 41.9% 2019 up 167.0% rising
9 El Salvador 31.8% 2022 up 1,922.4% volatile
10 Indonesia 29.8% 2022 up 91.2% volatile
11 Chile 29.7% 2022 up 46.1% rising
12 Argentina 26.3% 2022 up 26.1% rising
13 Ukraine 22.8% 2018 up 56.7% rising
14 Belarus 20.0% 2019 down 27.4% falling
15 Colombia 15.7% 2022 up 1,885.5% volatile
16 Armenia 14.5% 2022 up 6.8% rising
17 Uruguay 14.1% 2022 down 11.7% falling
18 Moldova 13.9% 2018 up 27.4% rising
19 Georgia 12.7% 2021 down 18.5% falling
20 Sri Lanka 11.9% 2019 down 22.6% falling
21 Kazakhstan 11.0% 2021 up 2,280.3% volatile
22 Turkey 5.2% 2019 up 64.0% rising
23 Albania 4.5% 2018 down 20.5% volatile
24 Pakistan 4.4% 2018 up 17.5% falling
25 Kyrgyzstan 3.8% 2020 down 54.6% volatile
26 Serbia 3.7% 2022 down 70.9% falling
27 Costa Rica 2.6% 2022 down 69.2% volatile

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 (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -urban
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
28 places, 240 data points, 2004–2022
Last refreshed

Percentage of population participating in Cash Transfers programs (includes direct and indirect beneficiaries)