Adequacy of social insurance programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: Adequacy of social insurance programs is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social insurance programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Social insurance programs include old age contributory pensions (including survivors and disability) and social security and health insurance benefits (including occupational injury benefits, paid sick leave, maternity and other social insurance). 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 Syrian Arab Republic 811.55 2003
2 Lao PDR 133.03 2018
3 Thailand 86.52 2017
4 China 55.35 2013
5 Turkey 49.59 2019
6 Myanmar 48.19 2017
7 Kyrgyz Republic 44.37 2013
8 Mongolia 40.16 2016
9 Kazakhstan 39.11 2017
10 Pakistan 39.00 2018
11 Armenia 36.58 2018
12 Sri Lanka 34.76 2016
13 Jordan 33.11 2010
14 Timor-Leste 32.78 2011
15 Malaysia 31.52 2016
16 Uzbekistan 29.33 2018
17 Vietnam 28.94 2014
18 Russia 27.80 2017
19 Bhutan 27.64 2012
20 Bangladesh 21.82 2016
21 Iraq 19.64 2012
22 Nepal 18.25 2010
23 Afghanistan 15.70 2007
24 Yemen 13.74 2005
25 Cambodia 12.54 2013
26 Philippines 9.75 2015
27 Tajikistan 8.00 2011
28 India 4.54 2011
29 Azerbaijan 0.24 2015

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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