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State of Social Protection Report 2025
May 1 , 2025
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- The World Bank released the ‘State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion-Person Challenge’.
- Over the last decade, 4.7 billion people across low- and middle-income countries gained access to social protection.
- However, two billion people in those countries remain uncovered or inadequately covered by social protection.
- Three out of four people in the low-income countries receive no form of social protection.
- Even in lower-middle-income countries, more than half of the population remains uncovered.
- At current growth rates, it will take 18 years to achieve full coverage for those living in extreme poverty and 20 years to cover the poorest 20% of households in low- and middle-income countries.
- In the low-income countries, social assistance transfers represent just 11% of the income of poor households.
- Gender disparities persist with women receiving 81 cents for every $1 received by men on social protection benefits, on average, across a sample of 27 countries.
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