CPIA social protection rating
Compare cpia social protection rating across 78 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 78 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 1 to 4 rating (1–6).
- •Discovery motivation: Labor Day dominated the accessible Google Trends view while Wikipedia most-read featured an election, motivating comparison of labor and social-protection policy quality.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 3.0rating (1–6))
About This Statistic
The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) measures the extent to which a country’s policy and institutional framework supports sustainable growth and poverty reduction, and consequently the effective use of development assistance. The outcome of the exercise yields both an overall score and scores for sixteen criteria that compose the CPIA. These criteria include: A. Economic Management (1. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies; 2. Fiscal Policy; 3. Debt Policy and Management), B. Structural Policies (4. Trade; 5. Financial Sector; 6. Business Regulatory Environment), C. Policies for Social Inclusion/Equity (7. Gender equality; 8. Equity of public resource use; 9. Building human resources; 10. Social protection and labor; 11. Policies and institutions for environmental sustainability), D. Public Sector Management and Institutions (12. Property rights and rule-based governance; 13. Quality of budgetary and financial management; 14. Efficiency of revenue mobilization; 15. Quality of public administration; 16. Transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector).
The Social Protection criterion assesses government policies in social protection and labor market regulations that reduce the risk of becoming poor, assist those who are poor to better manage further risks, and ensure a minimal level of welfare to all people. Specifically it evaluates social protection (SP) and labor policies, namely those engaged in risk prevention by supporting savings and risk pooling through social insurance, protection against destitution through redistributive safety net programs and promotion of human capital development and income generation, including labor market programs. It also assesses the functioning of an SP system, including its effectiveness in a crisis and in providing arrangements and incentives to help beneficiaries to move from protection to promotion and prevention, including through interactions with private, informal means of SP. The criterion covers: (a) the overall SP system; (b) social safety net programs; (c) labor markets programs and policies, namely those aiming to promote employment creation and productivity growth while protecting core labor standards and ensuring adequate working conditions; (d) local service delivery and civil society participation in community development programs; and (e) pension and old age savings programs.
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) measures the extent to which a country’s policy and institutional framework supports sustainable growth and poverty reduction, and consequently the effective use of development assistance. The outcome of the exercise yields both an overall score and scores for sixteen criteria that compose the CPIA. These criteria include: A. Economic Management (1. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies; 2. Fiscal Policy; 3. Debt Policy and Management), B. Structural Policies (4. Trade; 5. Financial Sector; 6. Business Regulatory Environment), C. Policies for Social Inclusion/Equity (7. Gender equality; 8. Equity of public resource use; 9. Building human resources; 10. Social protection and labor; 11. Policies and institutions for environmental sustainability), D. Public Sector Management and Institutions (12. Property rights and rule-based governance; 13. Quality of budgetary and financial management; 14. Efficiency of revenue mobilization; 15. Quality of public administration; 16. Transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector). The Social Protection criterion assesses government policies in social protection and labor market regulations that reduce the risk of becoming poor, assist those who are poor to better manage further risks, and ensure a minimal level of welfare to all people. Specifically it evaluates social protection (SP) and labor policies, namely those engaged in risk prevention by supporting savings and risk pooling through social insurance, protection against destitution through redistributive safety net programs and promotion of human capital development and income generation, including labor market programs. It also assesses the functioning of an SP system, including its effectiveness in a crisis and in providing arrangements and incentives to help beneficiaries to move from protection to promotion and prevention, including through interactions with private, informal means of SP. The criterion covers: (a) the overall SP system; (b) social safety net programs; (c) labor markets programs and policies, namely those aiming to promote employment creation and productivity growth while protecting core labor standards and ensuring adequate working conditions; (d) local service delivery and civil society participation in community development programs; and (e) pension and old age savings programs.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cape Verde | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 2 | Grenada | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 3 | Maldives | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 4 | Nigeria | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 5 | Rwanda | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 6 | United Republic of Tanzania | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 7 | Benin | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 8 | Ethiopia | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 9 | Fiji | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 10 | Djibouti | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 11 | Ghana | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 12 | Kiribati | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 13 | Honduras | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 14 | Country 383 | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 15 | Cote d'Ivoire | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 16 | Kenya | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 17 | Kyrgyzstan | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 18 | Lesotho | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 19 | Malawi | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 20 | Mauritania | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 21 | Nicaragua | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 22 | Pakistan | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 23 | Saint Lucia | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 24 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 25 | Senegal | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 26 | Sierra Leone | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 27 | Togo | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 28 | Uzbekistan | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 29 | Samoa | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 30 | Zambia | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 31 | Bangladesh | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 32 | Belize | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 33 | Burundi | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 34 | Cambodia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 35 | Cameroon | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 36 | Sri Lanka | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 37 | Chad | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 38 | Republic of the Congo | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 39 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 40 | Dominica | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 41 | Republic of The Gambia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 42 | Guinea | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 43 | Guyana | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 44 | Liberia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 45 | Madagascar | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 46 | Mali | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 47 | Mozambique | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 48 | Nepal | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 49 | Niger | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 50 | Sao Tome and Principe | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 51 | Zimbabwe | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 52 | Suriname | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 53 | Tajikistan | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 54 | Tonga | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 55 | Uganda | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 56 | Burkina Faso | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 57 | Bhutan | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 58 | Comoros | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 59 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 60 | Vanuatu | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 61 | Marshall Islands | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 62 | Papua New Guinea | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 63 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 64 | Timor-Leste | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 65 | Somalia | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 66 | Sudan | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 67 | Eswatini | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 68 | Tuvalu | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 69 | Solomon Islands | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 70 | Myanmar | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 71 | Central African Republic | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 72 | Eritrea | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 73 | Haiti | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 74 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 75 | Yemen | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 76 | South Sudan | 1.5rating (1–6) |
| 77 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1.5rating (1–6) |
| 78 | Afghanistan | 1.0rating (1–6) |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).
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