This statistic shows the percentage of the population aged 25 and over living in households that participated in different public assistance programs offered in the United States in 2018. Programs included here are Medicaid, School Lunch and the Food Stamps program. 46 percent of individuals with no high school diploma lived in households that had participated in Medicaid as of 2018.

In 2023, there were an average of 67 million monthly recipients of social security benefits in the United States. This is an increase since 2022, and an increase of nearly ten million in the last ten years.In the United States, Social Security benefits can be paid to eligible retirees, widowers, disabled workers, and their families.

Since 2015, the number of recipients of social welfare in Sweden has decreased steadily. Whereas more than 415,000 people received social welfare in Sweden in 2015, it had sunk below 300,000 in 2022. However, even though the total number of recipients has decreased, the value of the total benefits has increased since 2017.

To help people reach a reasonable standard of living

The social welfare benefits in Sweden are administered by the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen in Swedish). The aim of the benefits is to help people in need to reach a reasonable standard of living through monthly benefits. The amount of the average monthly payment was around 9,100 Swedish kronor in 2022.

 Benefits in foreign and Swedish households

Looking at households with Swedish-born and foreign-born citizens, the most common group of recipients was Swedish-born single men living without children. However, when looking at couples with children, far more foreign-born citizens received social benefits.

This table aims to show the distribution of welfare of persons in the Netherlands, measured by their income. The figures in this table are broken down to different person characteristics.

The population consists of all persons in private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year. In the population for the subject low-income persons, persons in both student households and households with income only for a part of the year have been excluded. The population for the subject economic independence consists of all persons aged from 15 to the OAP-age in private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year, except for students and pupils.

Data available from: 2011

Status of the figures: The figures for 2011 to 2022 are final. The figures for 2023 are preliminary.

Changes as of November 2024: The preliminary figures for 2023 have been added.

When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the fall of 2025.

The number of people receiving social benefits in Denmark decreased from 2013. Moreover, there were significantly more people from non-western countries than people from western countries who received social benefits between 2012 and 2022. In 2022, 14,000 people with a non-western origin and around 2,000 with a western origin received social benefits in Denmark. The majority of social benefits recipients had Danish origin though. The Danish government implemented a reform in 2014 that tightened the conditions for receiving social benefits.

Graph and download economic data for Government current expenditures: Income security: Welfare and social services (G160371A027NBEA) from 1959 to 2023 about social assistance, expenditures, government, services, income, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Income Before Taxes: Public Assistance, Supplemental Security Income, SNAP by Number of Earners: Consumer Units of Two or More People, One Earner (CXUWELFARELB0705M) from 1984 to 2023 about supplements, assistance, social assistance, public, SNAP, food stamps, tax, food, consumer, income, persons, and USA.

This table aims to show the distribution of welfare of private households, measured by their income, expenditures and wealth. The figures in this table are broken down to different household characteristics.

The population consists of all private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year. In the population for the subject low-income households, both student households and households with income only for a part of the year have been excluded.

Data available from: 2011

Status of the figures: The figures for 2011 to 2022 are final. The figures for 2023 are preliminary.

Changes as of 1 November 2024: Figures for 2022 are finalized. Preliminary figures for 2023 are added.

Changes as of 9 February 2022: The preliminary figures for 2020 concerning ‘Mean expenditures’ have been added. The topic 'Mean expenditures' only contains 5-annual data, for 2015 and 2020. The data for 2015 for this topic were still preliminary and are now final.

When will new figures be published? New figures will be published in the fall of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Income Before Taxes: Public Assistance, Supplemental Security Income, SNAP by Race: White and All Other Races, Not Including Black or African American (CXUWELFARELB0903M) from 2003 to 2023 about supplements, assistance, social assistance, public, SNAP, food stamps, tax, white, food, income, and USA.

This compilation of data, which was gathered from a variety of federal agencies and private organizations, provides information for the United States as a whole, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and all 3,139 counties and county equivalents (defined as of January 1, 1983). Data are included for the following general areas: age, ancestry, agriculture, banking, business, construction, crime, education, elections, government, health, households, housing, labor, land area, manufactures, money income, personal income, population, poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance and human services, veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to work.

Florida Poverty Rate Statistics for 2023. Analyze over 60 metrics of the Florida poverty database including by age, education, race, gender, work experience and more. In Florida, an estimated 2,762,679 of 21,764,366 people live in poverty, which is 12.7%. Compared to the national average of 12.6%, the poverty rate in Florida is 0.79% higher.

This statistic shows the gross output of social assistance in the United States from 1998 to 2020. In 1998, the gross output of this sector came to around 67 billion U.S. dollars. By 2020, the gross output had increased to almost 238 billion U.S. dollars.

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Graph and download economic data for SNAP Benefits Recipients in Philadelphia County/City, PA (CBR42101PAA647NCEN) from 1989 to 2022 about Philadelphia County/City, PA; Philadelphia; SNAP; nutrition; food stamps; benefits; PA; food; and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Income Before Taxes: Public Assistance, Supplemental Security Income, SNAP by Size of Consumer Unit: Three People in Consumer Unit (CXUWELFARELB0505M) from 1984 to 2023 about supplements, assistance, consumer unit, social assistance, public, SNAP, food stamps, tax, food, income, persons, and USA.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Social and Welfare Statistics (previously Social Expenditure Database) available via the UK Data Service includes the following databases:

The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. The main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labour market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas.

The Income Distribution database contains comparable data on the distribution of household income, providing both a point of reference for judging the performance of any country and an opportunity to assess the role of common drivers as well as drivers that are country-specific. They also allow governments to draw on the experience of different countries in order to learn "what works best" in narrowing income disparities and poverty. But achieving comparability in this field is also difficult, as national practices differ widely in terms of concepts, measures, and statistical sources.

The Child Wellbeing dataset compare 21 policy-focussed measures of child well-being in six areas, chosen to cover the major aspects of children’s lives: material well being; housing and environment; education; health and safety; risk behaviours; and quality of school life.

The Better Life Index: There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics. This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

The Social Expenditure data were first provided by the UK Data Service in March 2004.

Main Topics:

Topics covered by the database include:

• old-age cash benefits
• disability cash benefits
• occupational injury and disease
• sickness benefits
• services for the elderly and disabled people
• survivors
• family cash benefits
• family services
• active labour market programmes
• unemployment
• health
• housing benefits
• other contingencies

Approximately 413.2 thousand people in Japan with disabilities received welfare services of support for continuous employment. The care for daily life was the second most used welfare service among people with disabilities at nearly 300 thousand users.

Count the number of men serving as substitutes in long-term care and caring for the elderly in each year.

Peru PE: Adequacy: Social Safety Net Programs: % of Total Welfare of Beneficiary Households data was reported at 7.990 % in 2014. This records a decrease from the previous number of 8.539 % for 2013. Peru PE: Adequacy: Social Safety Net Programs: % of Total Welfare of Beneficiary Households data is updated yearly, averaging 10.108 % from Dec 2008 (Median) to 2014, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.811 % in 2008 and a record low of 7.990 % in 2014. Peru PE: Adequacy: Social Safety Net Programs: % of Total Welfare of Beneficiary Households data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Peru – Table PE.World Bank.WDI: Social Protection. Adequacy of social safety net programs is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social safety net programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Social safety net programs include 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.; ; ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/); Simple average;

Analysis of ‘G0104 - SDG 1.3.1 Proportion of the population receiving Social Welfare Payments by County, Year and Statistic’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/5ef24074-4286-46f5-a1dc-83ed7bdcb3d1 on 12 January 2022.

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SDG 1.3.1 Proportion of the population receiving Social Welfare Payments by County, Year and Statistic

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