Dataset · ILO
Social Protection Coverage
Social Protection Coverage, 2025 compilation · 209 countries
This is the share of a country's people effectively covered by at least one social protection benefit — a pension, child benefit, unemployment payment or disability support. It measures what people actually receive, not what the statute book promises.
This site holds one edition, Social Protection Coverage, 2025 compilation, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Social Protection Coverage · the file
- Newest
- Social Protection Coverage, 2025 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 209 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Protection Coverage, 2025 compilation | 209 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: social-protection-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 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, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 209 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 209 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 9 | 0 | |
Population covered by at least one social protection benefit (%)social_protectionHeadline | The headline figure: Population covered by at least one social protection benefit (%). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.02 share it100.019 share itmiddle 52.1 | 163 | 0 | |
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlag | ILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 0 | 209 |
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.
03209 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.
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 52 |
| Americas | 46 |
| Asia | 49 |
| Europe | 45 |
| Oceania | 17 |
| All | 209 |
One edition, covering 209 countries.
Not in this dataset · 16 places this site covers
ILO 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
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Social Protection Coverage 2025
Read from the publisher’s own service.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-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/social-protectionA key for Development & Human Capital in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, 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.
SDG indicator 1.3.1 from the ILO's World Social Protection Report, read from ILOSTAT directly.
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 10, 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: International Labour Organization (ILO), Social Protection Coverage, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Social Protection Coverage, Social Protection Coverage, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/social-protection
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. World Social Protection Report. Geneva: ILO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Social Protection Coverage: questions and answers
What is the Social Protection Coverage?
This is the share of a country's people effectively covered by at least one social protection benefit — a pension, child benefit, unemployment payment or disability support. It measures what people actually receive, not what the statute book promises.
Which editions of the Social Protection Coverage can I download?
One: Social Protection Coverage, 2025 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does ILO 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 ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.