Honduras: Coverage of social safety net programs (% of population)

Key figures

Since 2008 it is down 20.57 percentage points from 49.85% in 2008. The World Bank has no value for 2 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is downward, about 2.47 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 77% of the movement over 8 observed years.

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

Closest to Honduras in the 2019 ranking

• Poland — 1st of 4: 53.26%
• Belarus — 2nd of 4: 47.22%
• Türkiye — 4th of 4: 14.46%

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 10 values

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

• Argentina — 33.2% (2022)
• Bolivia — 96.8% (2021)
• Brazil — 28.1% (2022)
• Colombia — 31.41% (2022)
• Costa Rica — 49.14% (2022)
• Dominican Republic — 47.9% (2021)
• Ecuador — 28.13% (2022)
• El Salvador — 87.68% (2022)
• Panama — 64.54% (2023)

More social protection & labor data for Honduras

• Net migration — -4,778 (2025)
• Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asylum — 270 (2025)
• Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of origin — 94,449 (2025)
• Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) (national estimate) — 6.66% (2025)
• Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) (national estimate) — 3.63% (2025)
• Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (national estimate) — 4.85% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 33.97% (2025)
• Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (modeled ILO estimate)

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Questions people ask

What is Honduras's coverage of social safety net programs (% of population)?

29.28% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2008?

It is down 20.57 percentage points from 49.85% in 2008. The highest value was 54.22% in 2013 and the lowest 29.28% in 2019.

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_pop_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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