WORLD SOCIAL PROTECTION REPORT 2014/15: BUILDING ECONOMIC RECOVERY, INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
The World Social Protection Report 2014-15 is a comprehensive source of information on social protection systems, policy trends and social protection statistics.
The report:
- provides a global overview of the organization of social protection systems, their coverage, benefits, and public expenditures;
- following a life-cycle approach, presents social protection for children, women and men in working age, and older persons, including progress towards universal health coverage;
- analyses recent policy trends, eg. negative impacts of fiscal consolidation and adjustment measures;
- calls to expand social protection for crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice.
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Figures by chapter
Chapter 1 Introduction | Figures
Figure 1.1 | Towards comprehensive social security systems: Number of areas covered in socialprotection programmes anchored in national legislation, 1900–2012 | Word | |
Figure 1.2 | Development of social protection programmes anchored in national legislation by area (branch), pre-1900 to post-2005 (percentage of countries) | Excel |
Social protection for children and families | Figures
Figure 2.1 | Public expenditure on child and family benefits by region, and proportion of children aged 0–14 in total population, 2010—11 (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 2.2 | Public social protection expenditure on child and family benefits (excluding health), 2010–11 (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 2.3 | Overview of child and family cash benefit programmes anchored in national legislation, by type of scheme and groups covered, 2012–13 | ppt | |
Figure 2.4 | Child/family allowances: Distribution of programmes anchored in legislation, by type of programme, 2011–13 | Map | |
Figure 2.5 | Child/family allowances: Existence of programme anchored in legislation and main group(s) covered, by region, 2011–13 (percentage of countries) | Excel | |
Figure 2.6 | Child/family allowances: Main sources of financing, 2011–13 | Excel | |
Figure 2.7 | Level of expenditure and proportion of population reached by non-contributory conditional cash transfer programmes in selected Latin American countries, latest available year (percentages) | Excel |
Social protection for women and men of working age | Figures
3.1 Introduction: The quest for income security
Figure 3.1 | Non-health public social protection expenditure for people of working age, and share of people of working age (15–64) in the total population, 2010–11 | Excel | |
Figure 3.2 | Non-health public social protection expenditure for people of working age, by national income (percentage of GDP), 2010–11 | Excel |
3.2 Unemployment protection
Figure 3.3 | Overview of unemployment protection schemes anchored in national legislation, by type of scheme and benefit, 2012–13 | ppt | |
Figure 3.4 | Distribution of unemployment protection schemes worldwide by type of scheme, 2012–13 | Map | |
Figure 3.5 | Distribution of unemployment protection schemes worldwide by extent of legal coverage of the labour force, latest available year | Map | |
Figure 3.6 | Unemployment protection schemes: Extent of legal coverage, regional estimates, latest available year (percentage of labour force) | Excel | |
Figure 3.7 | Effective coverage of unemployment benefits: unemployed who actually receive cash benefits, regional estimates, 2007, 2009 and 2012–13 (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 3.8 | Effective coverage of unemployment benefits: unemployed who actually receive cash benefits, latest available year (percentages) | Map | |
Figure 3.9 | Effective coverage of unemployment benefits: unemployed who actually receive cash benefits, latest available year (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 3.10 | Proportion of unemployed receiving unemployment benefits and relative poverty rates for the unemployed, selected European countries, 2012 | Excel | |
Figure 3.11 | Unemployed receiving unemployment cash benefits: All ages and youth, 2012–13 (percentages) | Excel |
3.3. Employment injury protection
Figure 3.12 | Employment injury protection: Distribution by type of programme, 2012–13 | Map | |
Figure 3.13 | Employment injury protection: Regional estimates of legal coverage (total and women), latest available year (percentage of labour force) | Excel | |
Figure 3.14 | Employment injury protection: Legal and effective coverage, latest available year (percentage of labour force) | Excel | |
Figure 3.15 | Employment injury protection: Replacement rates for permanent disability, 2012–13 | Excel | |
Figure 3.16 | Employment injury protection: Replacement rates for temporary disability, 2012–13 | Excel |
3.4 Disability benefits
Figure 3.17 | Overview of cash disability benefit programmes anchored in national legislation, by type of programme and benefit, 2012–13 | ppt | |
Figure 3.18 | Income support for persons with disabilities: Existence and type of programmes (2012–13) | Map | |
Figure 3.19 | Europe: Persons with disabilities in working age and recipients of disability benefits, 2010 | Excel | |
Figure 3.20 | Europe: Rates of poverty risk among those of working age (16–64) by disability status, 2010 (percentages) | Excel |
3.5 Maternity protection
Figure 3.21 | Maternity cash benefit schemes anchored in national legislation: Types of schemes, 2013 | Map | |
Figure 3.22 | Legal (mandatory) coverage for maternity cash benefits: Women in employment protected by law for loss of income during maternity, latest available year (percentages) | Map | |
Figure 3.23 | Effective coverage for maternity cash benefits: Women in employment contributing to maternity cash benefits schemes or otherwise entitled to such benefits, latest available year (percentages) | Map | |
Figure 3.24 | Duration of paid maternity leave in national legislation, 2013 (weeks) | Map | |
Figure 3.25 | Level of maternity cash benefit as a proportion as previous earnings, 2013 (per cent) | Map | |
Figure 3.26 | Antenatal care coverage by region, latest available year (percentage of live births) | Excel | |
Figure 3.27 | Antenatal care coverage by social health protection coverage, latest available year | Excel | |
Figure 3.28 | Inequities in access to maternal health services by wealth quintile and national income level, latest available year | Excel | |
Figure 3.29 | Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) and live births attended by skilled health personnel, according to national income level, 2011 | Excel |
Social protection for older women and men: Pensions and other non-health benefits | Figures
Figure 4.1 | Sources of income of people aged 65 and over, OECD countries | Excel | |
Figure 4.2 | Correlation between greater public pension provision and lower poverty levels, OECD countries | Excel | |
Figure 4.3 | Overview of old-age pension schemes anchored in national legislation, by type of scheme, 2012–13 | ppt | |
Figure 4.4 | Non-health public social protection expenditure on pensions and other benefits for older persons, and share of older population (65 and above) in total population (2010–11) | Excel | |
Figure 4.5 | Non-health public social protection expenditure on pensions and other benefits for older persons, 2010–11 (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 4.6 | Long-term care expenditure as a proportion of GDP, 2010 and projections for 2060 (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.7 | Old-age pensions: Extent of legal coverage, by region, latest available year (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.8 | Effective pension coverage ratios by region, latest available year (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.9 | Old-age pension beneficiaries as a proportion of the population above statutory pensionable age, latest available year (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.10a | Old-age pension beneficiaries as a proportion of the population above statutory pensionable age, (a) 2000 (percentages) | Map | |
Figure 4.10b | Old-age pension beneficiaries as a proportion of the population above statutory pensionable age, (b) 2010–12 (percentages) | Map | |
Figure 4.11 | Comparison of the proportion of older persons receiving a pension, 2000 and 2010–12 (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.12 | Proportions of women and men in employment contributing to a pension scheme by area of residence (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.13 | Proportions of women and men above statutory pensionable age receiving an old-age (or survivor’s) pension, by area of residence | Excel | |
Figure 4.14 | Pensioners’ declining relative standard of living as a result of price indexation or no indexation (compared to standard of living with wage indexation = 100) | Excel | |
Figure 4.15 | Average replacement rates at retirement in public pension schemes in 2010 and projected for 2060, selected European countries (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 4.16 | Minimum replacement rates necessary to guarantee pension income above the poverty threshold | Excel |
Chapter 5 Towards universal coverage in health | Figures
Figure 5.1 | Health coverage by region: Proportion of population affiliated to national health services, social, private or micro-insurance schemes, latest available year (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 5.2 | Global health coverage: Proportion of population affiliated to national health services, social, private or micro-insurance schemes, latest available year (percentages) | Map | |
Figure 5.3 | Legal health coverage and poverty, latest available year (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 5.4 | The global deficit in effective access to health services, 2011–12, by level of country income | Excel | |
Figure 5.5 | Legal health coverage and out-of-pocket payments in selected African countries, 2011 (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 5.6 | Schematic overview of health financing mechanisms | ppt | |
Figure 5.7 | Coverage mechanisms used by countries with legal health coverage rates of 80 per cent of the population or over, latest available year | Excel | |
Figure 5.8 | Sources of health-care financing, by region, 2011 (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 5.9 | Share of out-of-pocket expenditure in total health expenditure, by proportion of the population living on less than US$2 a day PPP, 2011 (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 5.10 | Number of health workers required to close global and regional gaps in universal health coverage, ILO estimate, 2014 | ppt | |
Figure 5.11 | Yearly change in health workers’ remuneration as proportion of total health expenditure and GDP, by national income level, 2000–10 (percentages) | Excel |
Expanding social protection: Building recovery, inclusive development and social justice | Figures
Figure 6.1 | Social protection in stimulus packages, 2008–09 (percentage of total announced amount) | Excel | |
Figure 6.2 | Number of countries contracting public expenditures (year on year), 2008–16, (a) relative to GDP and (b) in real terms | Excel | |
Figures 6.3a & 6.3b | Excessive fiscal contraction: Projected decline (a) in total government expenditure relative to GDP, and (b) in real government expenditure (2013¬–15 average over 2005–07 average, percentages) | Excel | |
Figures 6.4a - 6.4d | Public social protection expenditure as a percentage of GDP, real GDP and real per capita public social protection expenditure (index 100 = 2007): (a) world; (b) high-income countries; (c) middle-income countries; (d) low-income countries | Excel | |
Figures 6.5a & 6.5b | Trends in government and public social protection expenditure per capita (in constant prices): (a) 2007–09; (b) 2009–11 | Excel | |
Figure 6.6 | Expansion of social protection in middle- and low-income countries: Selected examples of new and expanded programmes, 2000–13 | Excel | |
Figure 6.7 | Support for the financial sector, fiscal stimulus packages and public debt increases, selected HICs, 2008–10 (US$ billions) | Excel | |
Figure 6.8 | Increase in the proportion of the population at risk of poverty in 18 European countries between 2008 and 2012 | Excel | |
Figure 6.9 | Distribution of expenditure-based versus revenue-based fiscal consolidation plans in 30 OECD countries, 2009–15 | Excel | |
Figure 6.10 | The social and economic risks of fiscal consolidation | ppt | |
Figures 6.11a - 6.11d | Trends in real public social protection expenditure, GDP, consumption and unemployment, 2007–2012–13: (a) United States; (b) Japan; (c) France; (d) EU-27 | Excel | |
Figure 6.12 | Contributions of various components to the growth of nominal gross disposable income of households, European Area 17 countries, 2000–12 (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 6.13 | Annual changes in disposable income, 2007–10, by income component, selected OECD countries (percentages) | Excel | |
Figure 6.14 | Reduction in gross theoretical replacement rates of statutory pensions for average wage workers retiring at age 65 after 40 years of contributions, 2010–50 (percentage points of theoretical average wage) | Excel | |
Figure 6.15a - 6.15d | Public social protection and household final consumption expenditure, unemployment and GDP: Recent developments in the four EU countries under economic adjustment programmes, 2008–13: (a) Ireland; (b) Greece; (c) Portugal; (d) Cyprus | Excel | |
Figure 6.16 | Poverty rates in OECD countries before and after taxes and social protection transfers, latest available year (around 2010) | Excel | |
Figure 6.17 | Increase in public social protection expenditure, selected middle-income countries, 2000 to latest year (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 6.18 | Increase in social protection expenditure ratios, selected low-income countries, 2000 to latest year (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 6.19 | Total government expenditures in selected countries, 2013 (percentage of GDP) | Excel | |
Figure 6.20 | Illicit financial flows (IFF) versus official development assistance (ODA), 2000–09 (current US$ billions) | Excel | |
Figure 6.21 | Public social protection expenditure (percentage of GDP) and proportion of the population in poverty | Excel | |
Figure 6.22 | Public social protection expenditure (per cent of GDP) and income equality (Gini coefficient), latest year | Excel | |
Figure 6.23 | Schematic representation of some of the positive impacts of the extension of social protection on inclusive growth (short-term) | ppt | |
Figure 6.24 | Schematic representation of some of the positive impacts of the extension of social protection on inclusive growth (longer-term) | ppt |
Access data / Statistical annexes
Part A The demographic, economic and labour market environment
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Table A.1 | Demographic trends: Dependency ratios | Excel |
Table A.2 | Demographic trends: Ageing | Excel |
Table A.3 | Fertility, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy at birth | Excel |
Table A.4 | Life expectancy at 20 or 60 years old | Excel |
Labour force and employment indicators | ||
Tables A.5 - A.6 | Labour force to population ratios at ages 15-64 yrs and 65+ yrs | Excel |
Tables A.7 - A.8 | Employment to population ratio at ages 15-24 yrs and 15+ yrs | Excel |
Table A.9 | Status in employment | Excel |
Table A.10 | Unemployment as a percentage of the labour force | Excel |
Economic and poverty indicators | ||
Table A.11 | Poverty and income distribution | Excel |
Table A.12 | GDP and HDI | Excel |
Part B Social security coverage and expenditure | ||
Table B.1 | Ratification of ILO social security Conventions, by region | Word |
Table B.2 | Overview of national social security systems | Excel |
Unemployment | ||
Table B.3 | Unemployment: indicators of effective coverage. Unemployed who actually receive benefits (percentages) | Excel |
Employment injury | ||
Table B.4 | Employment injury: Key features of main social security programmes | Excel |
Maternity | ||
Table B.5 | Maternity: Key features of main social security programmes (cash benefits) | Excel |
Old age effective coverage | ||
Table B.6 | Old-age pensions: Key features of main social security programmes | Excel |
Table B.7 | Non-contributory pension schemes: main features and indicators | Excel |
Table B.8 | Old-age effective coverage: active contributors (latest available year) | Excel |
Table B.9 | Old-age effective coverage: old-age pension beneficiaries (latest available year) | Excel |
Health specific indicators | ||
Table B.10 | Total (public and private) health-care expenditure not financed by private household's out-of-pocket payments (percentage) | Excel |
Table B.11 | The multiple dimensions of health coverage | Excel |
Social security expenditure | ||
Table B.12 | Public social protection expenditure, 1990 to lastest available year (percentage of GDP) | Excel |
Table B.13 | Public social protection expenditure by guarantee, latest available year (percentage of GDP) | Excel |