Dominican Republic: Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile (% of population)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 37.13 percentage points in 2016 and the biggest yearly fall was 11.41 percentage points in 2017. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is upward, about 3.12 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 38% of the movement over 9 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

Closest to Dominican Republic in the 2021 ranking

• Bolivia — 1st of 3: 99.34%
• Georgia — 2nd of 3: 74.61%

What this measures

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.

Limitations: 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.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 14 values

Coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile (% of population) in nearby economies

• Argentina — 68.86% (2022)
• Bolivia — 99.34% (2021)
• Brazil — 64.28% (2022)
• Colombia — 54.04% (2022)
• Costa Rica — 81.85% (2022)
• Ecuador — 56.45% (2022)
• El Salvador — 91.29% (2022)
• Honduras — 50.39% (2019)

More social protection & labor data for Dominican Republic

• Net migration — -35,306 (2025)
• Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum — 20 (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (national estimate) — 39.87% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 39.57% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (national estimate) — 55.96% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 56.57% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, total (%) (national estimate) — 47.98% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Dominican Republic's coverage of social safety net programs in poorest quintile (% of population)?

56.96% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2007?

It is up 37.84 percentage points from 19.12% in 2007. The highest value was 77.2% in 2016 and the lowest 19.12% in 2007.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: 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..

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator per_sa_allsa.cov_q1_tot, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: 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. Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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