IntervaOpen the desk

World Bank · Labor

Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile

Coverage of social safety net programs shows the percentage of population participating in 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.

Coverage
121 of 238 countries
Latest data
2023
Series
121
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest
Interva ID
worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest

Recency

current

data to 2023; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2023; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 2 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

53%

84 of 121 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 53% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 121 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 3 observations; the earliest begins in 2000.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile for each of the 121 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Panama202387.00percent
Argentina202268.86percent
Armenia202259.74percent
Bangladesh202269.34percent
Bhutan20224.26percent
Brazil202264.28percent
Chad20226.67percent
Chile202292.78percent
Colombia202254.04percent
Costa Rica202281.85percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

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

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

Related datasets

Unemployment, total (% of labor force)

World Bank · 187 series · same topic · same publisher

Child employment in agriculture, female

World Bank · 65 series · same topic · same publisher

Child employment in agriculture

World Bank · 65 series · same topic · same publisher

Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, female (%) (national estimate)

World Bank · 204 series · same topic · same publisher

Child employment in agriculture, male

World Bank · 65 series · same topic · same publisher

Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate)

World Bank · 187 series · same topic · same publisher

Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, male (%) (modeled ILO estimate)

World Bank · 187 series · same topic · same publisher

Employment to population ratio, ages 15-24, male (%) (national estimate)

World Bank · 204 series · same topic · same publisher

Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest,
  title        = {Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

API access

Every fact on this page is available from the API.

curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest
curl -o worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest.csv https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest/download
curl "https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest/citation?accessed=YYYY-MM-DD"
curl https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/datasets/worldbank-coverage-of-social-safety-net-programs-in-poorest/quality

Full schema: https://interva-api.nq5kq4f69b5zj.eu-west-3.cs.amazonlightsail.com/docs

Open in the terminal to chart this series, compare it against other publishers, or export it with its provenance.

Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile · World Bank · Interva