Social pensions are implemented across countries at every level of economic development. Explore the chart to see how countries with social pension schemes are distributed across current World Bank income levels.
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Click on an income level to see which countries or territories fall within that category.
Key findings
- More than half (55%) of social pension schemes are implemented in middle-income countries, including one fifth (19%) in lower-middle-income countries.
- This shows that social pensions are implemented across a wide range of economic contexts and are not concentrated in high-income countries.
