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Benefit incidence of social safety net programs to poorest quintile (% of total safety net benefits)

Name: Benefit incidence of social safety net programs to poorest quintile (% of total safety net benefits)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: social, % of total, benefit, incidence, safety, net, programs, poorest, quintile, total, benefits

Latest available country observation from World Bank World Development Indicators, through 2023. Countries can have different observation years; compare broad patterns rather than treating all values as one survey wave.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•106 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

20.1% of Total

Median: 19.4% of Total

Countries Covered

106

with available data

Highest

Ghana

57.6% of Total

Lowest

Togo

0.0% of Total

Top 5 Countries

1Ghana57.6% of Total

2Djibouti53.8% of Total

3Zimbabwe49.3% of Total

4Argentina44.0% of Total

5Uruguay43.4% of Total

By Region

South America31.3% of Total(7 countries)

Europe28.6% of Total(10 countries)

Africa26.1% of Total(6 countries)

North America24.6% of Total(2 countries)

Asia22.3% of Total(16 countries)

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0% of Total)High (57.6% of Total)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 20.1% of Total)

South America (7)

Europe (10)

Africa (6)

North America (2)

Asia (16)

Other (65)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Methodology

Country values are taken from the latest observation available in the linked source series.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Ghana	57.6% of Total
2	Djibouti	53.8% of Total
3	Zimbabwe	49.3% of Total
4	Argentina	44.0% of Total
5	Uruguay	43.4% of Total
6	Montenegro	43.1% of Total
7	Croatia	39.0% of Total
8	Slovakia	38.4% of Total
9	Türkiye	38.0% of Total
10	Hungary	34.2% of Total
11	Myanmar	32.8% of Total
12	Costa Rica	31.8% of Total
13	Jamaica	31.7% of Total
14	Pakistan	31.6% of Total
15	Serbia	31.0% of Total
16	Philippines	30.9% of Total
17	Sri Lanka	30.6% of Total
18	Guatemala	30.5% of Total
19	Armenia	30.4% of Total
20	Peru	30.3% of Total
21	Moldova, Republic of	30.2% of Total
22	Brazil	30.2% of Total
23	Ecuador	29.7% of Total
24	Uzbekistan	29.6% of Total
25	Poland	29.3% of Total
26	Kyrgyzstan	29.3% of Total
27	Belarus	28.8% of Total
28	El Salvador	28.4% of Total
29	Colombia	28.4% of Total
30	Bulgaria	28.1% of Total
31	Mongolia	27.9% of Total
32	Albania	27.6% of Total
33	Romania	26.6% of Total
34	Indonesia	26.5% of Total
35	Paraguay	26.4% of Total
36	Thailand	26.1% of Total
37	Bangladesh	25.9% of Total
38	Honduras	25.6% of Total
39	South Africa	25.5% of Total
40	Lithuania	24.8% of Total
41	Kazakhstan	24.8% of Total
42	Malaysia	24.6% of Total
43	Panama	24.3% of Total
44	People's Republic of China	24.2% of Total
45	Kiribati	24.0% of Total
46	Eswatini	23.0% of Total
47	Jordan	22.7% of Total
48	Yemen	22.6% of Total
49	Liberia	22.5% of Total
50	Latvia	21.1% of Total
51	Dominican Republic	20.9% of Total
52	Kenya	20.0% of Total
53	Maldives	19.5% of Total
54	Islamic Republic of Iran	19.4% of Total
55	Nigeria	19.2% of Total
56	Malawi	19.0% of Total
57	Mexico	18.8% of Total
58	Bolivia	18.5% of Total
59	Georgia	18.4% of Total
60	Sudan	18.0% of Total
61	Egypt	17.6% of Total
62	Namibia	17.6% of Total
63	Azerbaijan	17.4% of Total
64	Fiji	17.2% of Total
65	Ethiopia	16.8% of Total
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.5% of Total
67	Nepal	15.7% of Total
68	India	15.1% of Total
69	Sierra Leone	14.9% of Total
70	Cape Verde	14.8% of Total
71	State of Palestine	14.8% of Total
72	Ukraine	13.8% of Total
73	Rwanda	13.7% of Total
74	Chile	13.3% of Total
75	Lesotho	13.1% of Total
76	Vietnam	12.8% of Total
77	Russian Federation	12.7% of Total
78	Iraq	12.4% of Total
79	Mauritius	11.8% of Total
80	Mozambique	11.6% of Total
81	Marshall Islands	8.5% of Total
82	Papua New Guinea	7.7% of Total
83	Tajikistan	7.6% of Total
84	Botswana	7.5% of Total
85	Mauritania	7.2% of Total
86	Afghanistan	6.7% of Total
87	Tunisia	6.6% of Total
88	Gabon	5.9% of Total
89	Cameroon	4.7% of Total
90	Republic of The Gambia	4.1% of Total
91	South Sudan	3.9% of Total
92	Solomon Islands	3.9% of Total
93	Micronesia, Federated States of	3.6% of Total
94	Cote d'Ivoire	3.6% of Total
95	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.5% of Total
96	Uganda	3.4% of Total
97	Senegal	2.0% of Total
98	Mali	2.0% of Total
99	Bhutan	1.7% of Total
100	Chad	1.4% of Total
101	Zambia	1.0% of Total
102	Niger	1.0% of Total
103	Timor-Leste	0.9% of Total
104	Guinea	0.4% of Total
105	Burkina Faso	0.4% of Total
106	Togo	0.0% of Total

Showing 106 of 106 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2023).

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