Dataset · World Bank Group
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, 2023 compilation · 123 countries
Adequacy measures what social protection is worth to the households that receive it: the transfers they get — pensions, cash transfers, unemployment and labour-market benefits — as a share of their total income or consumption. Coverage says who is reached; adequacy says whether what they get makes a difference.
This site holds one edition, Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, 2023 compilation, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits · the file
- Newest
- Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, 2023 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 123 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, 2023 compilation | 123 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: social-protection-adequacy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 123 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 123 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 22 | 0 | |
Benefits received as a share of beneficiaries' welfare (%)social_protection_adequacyHeadline | The headline figure: Benefits received as a share of beneficiaries' total income or consumption (%). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.455 | 123 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03123 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 45 |
| Americas | 20 |
| Asia | 33 |
| Europe | 17 |
| Oceania | 8 |
| All | 123 |
One edition, covering 123 countries.
Not in this dataset · 102 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: social-protection-adequacy-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
The World Bank's ASPIRE database, through its indicator API (per_allsp.adq_pop_tot), computed from household surveys. Taken as one reading per country, because surveys are years apart.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/social-protection-adequacy
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection — Indicators of Resilience and Equity. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits: questions and answers
What is the Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits?
Adequacy measures what social protection is worth to the households that receive it: the transfers they get — pensions, cash transfers, unemployment and labour-market benefits — as a share of their total income or consumption. Coverage says who is reached; adequacy says whether what they get makes a difference.
Which editions of the Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits can I download?
One: Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits, 2023 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.