Adequacy of social safety net programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households) (World) - 2019


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* Data Description : Adequacy of social safety net programs is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social safety net programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. 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.
* Data Source : Worldbank.org
* By changing the date from the drop-down menu, you can view statistics on maps since 2000.
* Countries with the highest value of "Adequacy of social safety net programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)" in the World (2019) : Zimbabwe(26,5248), Brazil(21,0544), Ecuador(15,8525), Costa Rica(14,2953), Belarus(13,9978), Paraguay(12,854), Argentina(12,613), Peru(9,99027), Turkey(9,53506), Colombia(6,84314).


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