Benefit incidence of social safety net programs to poorest quintile (% of total safety net benefits) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Benefit incidence of social safety net programs to poorest quintile shows the percentage of total social safety net benefits received by the poorest 20% of the population. Social safety net programs include cash transfers and last resort programs, noncontributory social pensions, other cash transfers programs (child, family and orphan allowances, birth and death grants, disability benefits, and other allowances), conditional cash transfers, in-kind food transfers (food stamps and vouchers, food rations, supplementary feeding, and emergency food distribution), school feeding, other social assistance programs (housing allowances, scholarships, fee waivers, health subsidies, and other social assistance) and public works programs (cash for work and food for work). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.

Source: ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Ghana 57.59 2016
2 Djibouti 53.82 2012
3 Zimbabwe 49.34 2019
4 South Africa 25.53 2014
5 Lesotho 23.32 2017
6 Eswatini 23.00 2016
7 Liberia 22.54 2016
8 Nigeria 21.42 2018
9 Kenya 20.05 2015
10 Tunisia 19.76 2010
11 Congo 19.68 2005
12 Sierra Leone 19.18 2018
13 Sudan 17.98 2009
14 Tanzania 17.94 2014
15 Malawi 17.89 2016
16 Egypt 17.58 2008
17 Namibia 17.55 2015
18 Ethiopia 17.28 2018
19 Cabo Verde 14.80 2007
20 Rwanda 13.68 2013
21 Niger 13.31 2014
22 Mauritius 11.84 2017
23 Botswana 7.50 2015
24 Mauritania 7.24 2008
25 Gabon 5.80 2017
26 Angola 5.02 2018
27 The Gambia 4.07 2015
28 Dem. Rep. Congo 3.50 2012
29 Uganda 3.40 2016
30 Senegal 3.22 2011
31 Chad 1.38 2011
32 Côte d'Ivoire 1.20 2015
33 Zambia 1.05 2015
34 Burkina Faso 0.22 2018
35 Cameroon 0.00 2014

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Limitations and Exceptions: When interpreting ASPIRE performance indicators based on household surveys, it is important to note that the extent to which information on specific transfers and programs is captured in the household surveys can vary a lot across countries. Moreover, household surveys do not capture the universe of social protection programs in the country, in best practice cases just the largest programs. As a consequence, ASPIRE indicators are not fully comparable across program categories and countries; however, they provide approximate measures of social protection systems performance. In addition, there may be cases where ASPIRE performance indicators differ from official WB country reports as ASPIRE indicators are based on a first level analysis of original survey data and unified methodology that does not necessarily reflect country-specific knowledge and in depth country analysis relying on administrative program level data and/or imputations.

Aggregation method: Simple average

Periodicity: Annual