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Poverty Gap reduction (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) -rural by country

Poverty gap reduction due to Cash Transfers programs as % of pre-transfer poverty gap

Countries reporting
24
Highest
68.5%
Poland
Lowest
0.4%
Uruguay
Median
22.9%
Years covered
19
2004–2022
Data points
202

What the numbers show

Poverty Gap reduction (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) -rural is currently reported for 24 countries. The highest value is 68.5% in Poland; the lowest is 0.4% in Uruguay.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.9%, and the mean is 26.2%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 159.

Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 7,818.2%), and the largest decrease in Indonesia (down 91.0%).

Poverty Gap reduction (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Poland 68.5% 2019 up 89.0% rising
2 Belarus 55.2% 2019 up 57.3% rising
3 Mongolia 54.4% 2020 up 80.4% rising
4 Romania 53.5% 2021 up 23.2% rising
5 Armenia 51.4% 2022 up 62.7% rising
6 Vietnam 45.5% 2020 up 213.9% volatile
7 Georgia 40.4% 2021 up 10.2% rising
8 Kazakhstan 35.3% 2021 up 7,818.2% volatile
9 Moldova 32.8% 2018 up 47.0% rising
10 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 26.4% 2017 up 23.8% rising
10 Kosovo 26.4% 2017 up 23.8% rising
12 Ukraine 25.2% 2018 down 10.4% falling
13 Kyrgyzstan 20.6% 2020 up 232.4% rising
14 Peru 18.1% 2022 — volatile
15 Sri Lanka 17.7% 2019 up 120.5% rising
16 Serbia 17.3% 2022 down 0.0% rising
17 Chile 13.7% 2022 up 406.1% volatile
18 Costa Rica 8.4% 2022 down 24.9% volatile
19 Pakistan 6.8% 2018 up 81.3% rising
20 Turkey 5.0% 2013 down 18.2% rising
21 Indonesia 3.9% 2022 down 91.0% volatile
22 Colombia 0.9% 2022 up 69.8% volatile
23 El Salvador 0.6% 2022 up 19.1% volatile
24 Uruguay 0.4% 2022 down 20.9% falling

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Indicator
Poverty Gap reduction (%) - Unconditional Cash Transfers -1st quintile (poorest) -rural
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
24 places, 202 data points, 2004–2022
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Poverty gap reduction due to Cash Transfers programs as % of pre-transfer poverty gap