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

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 Vietnam 63.80 2014
2 Turkey 37.45 2019
3 Armenia 35.93 2018
4 Kyrgyz Republic 35.02 2013
5 Pakistan 33.44 2018
6 Myanmar 33.42 2017
7 Sri Lanka 32.59 2016
8 Uzbekistan 29.71 2018
9 Indonesia 28.87 2019
10 Philippines 28.39 2015
11 Thailand 26.50 2017
12 Malaysia 24.60 2016
13 Bangladesh 24.29 2016
14 China 24.24 2013
15 Mongolia 23.79 2016
16 Yemen 22.94 2005
17 India 22.91 2011
18 Jordan 22.70 2010
19 Georgia 20.05 2018
20 Kazakhstan 19.38 2017
21 Azerbaijan 17.38 2015
22 Nepal 15.73 2010
23 Bhutan 15.29 2007
24 Timor-Leste 13.87 2011
25 Russia 13.41 2017
26 Iraq 12.40 2012
27 Tajikistan 7.56 2011
28 Afghanistan 6.75 2007

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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