The information on the living allowance for low-income elderly in social welfare statistics is presented on the Social Affairs Bureau's website under "Statistical Data" and "Announcement of the release schedule for statistical data."

In 2023, there were an average of ** million monthly recipients of social security benefits in the United States. This is an increase since 2022, and an increase of nearly *** 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.

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.

Employment, economy and welfare including labor force population, labor force participation rate, labor force participation rate - junior high school and below, labor force participation rate - senior high school (vocational), labor force participation rate - college and above, employed population, unemployment rate, unemployment rate - junior high school and below, unemployment rate - senior high school (vocational), unemployment rate - college and above, number of registered companies (gender of responsible person), number of foreign workers in industry and social welfare, number of low-income households - population, number of low-income households - households (gender of household head), number of low-income indigenous households - population, number of low-income indigenous households - households (gender of household head), number of people with disabilities, ratio of people with disabilities to the total population, number of solitary elderly people in need of care, number of insured persons under agricultural health insurance, number of insured persons under labor insurance, number of elderly farmers receiving welfare subsidies, number of actually employed persons with disabilities through quota employment, number of living allowances for people with disabilities, number of students with disabilities receiving educational subsidies, number of beneficiaries of living allowances for elderly with middle and low income, number of recipients of special care allowances for elderly with middle and low income, number of households in special circumstances (gender of parents), number of volunteers in social welfare services, registered homeless population, number of profit-making enterprises - by gender of responsible person, representative or manager, number of union members, number of first-time recipients of parental leave allowances for child care.

The Global Welfare Dataset (GLOW) is a cross-national panel dataset that aims at facilitating comparative social policy research on the Global North and Global South. The database includes 381 variables on 61 countries from years between 1989 and 2015. The database has four main categories of data: welfare, development, economy and politics.The data is the result of an original data compilation assembled by using information from several international and domestic sources. Missing data was supplemented by domestic sources where available. We sourced data primarily from these international databases:Atlas of Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity – ASPIRE (World Bank)Government Finance Statistics (International Monetary Fund)Social Expenditure Database – SOCX (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)Social Protection Statistics – ESPROSS (Eurostat)Social Security Inquiry (International Labour Organization)Social Security Programs Throughout the World (Social Security Administration)Statistics on Income and Living Conditions – EU-SILC (European Union)World Development Indicators (World Bank)However, much of the welfare data from these sources are not compatible between all country cases. We conducted an extensive review of the compatibility of the data and computed compatible figures where possible. Since the heart of this database is the provision of social assistance across a global sample, we applied the ASPIRE methodology in order to build comparable indicators across European and Emerging Market economies. Specifically, we constructed indicators of average per capita transfers and coverage rates for social assistance programs for all the country cases not included in the World Bank’s ASPIRE dataset (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.)For details, please see:https://glow.ku.edu.tr/about

Data gathered from a variety of federal agencies and private organizations are contained in this collection which provides county statistics. Included in CO_STAT 1 are all data for counties published in the 1983 County and City Data Book and the 1982 State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, as well as a number of statistics not previously published. There are several levels of data (e.g., persons, housing units, and local governments). The collection supplies information on the following general areas: agriculture, banking, crime, education, elections, government, households, health, housing, labor, land area, manufactures, money income, personal income, population, poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance and human services, savings and loan associations, veterans, vital statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to work. Records are included for each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia as well as 3,137 counties or county equivalents.

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 to 2023.

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

Changes as of 19 September 2025: None, this table was discontinued.

When will new figures be published? No longer applicable. This table is succeeded by the table Welfare of persons; key figures. See section 3.

The most current Child Welfare Outcomes data is featured on this site. Through the site, you can view the data before the full report is published. The most recently published full report is Child Welfare Outcomes 2004-2007: Report to Congress.

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 dataset was created using the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) for Mahler ⓡ Yonzan ⓡ Lakner (2022). It has been updated using the September 2025 vintage of PIP data. The data vintage used in the paper can be found here. This dataset contains a distribution of global welfare for the years 1990 to 2025. For each year, the dataset contains 1000 welfare (income or consumption) bins per country. The dataset reports the following variables: code—ISO 3-letter country code, World Bank regions, regionpcn—regional classification previously used in PIP, quantile—rank of the bin with 1 being the lowest welfare bin and 1000 the highest welfare bin, welf—average daily household per capita welfare values of each bin in 2021 PPP USD, and pop—population of the bin in millions. The welfare values are based on lineup methodology in PIP. Recommended citation: “Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Yonzan, Nishant; Lakner, Christoph. 2022. The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty. Policy Research Working Papers;10198. © World Bank, Washington, DC. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/54fae299-8800-585f-9f18-a42514f8d83b License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.” updated with Poverty and Inequality Platform (September 2025). Disclaimer: The data should not be used in lieu of the full survey data, or in lieu of the poverty and inequality statistics that are estimated directly from the survey data. For these purposes, users should use the estimates available in the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). The poverty and inequality statistics published in PIP are estimated directly from the survey data. For example, the binned database would result in a lower level of within-country inequality, since it does not account for the inequality within each bin.

Graph and download economic data for Government current expenditures: Income security: Welfare and social services (G160371A027NBEA) from 1959 to 2024 about social assistance, expenditures, government, income, services, GDP, and USA.

Social welfare statistics_ Presentation of the application data for the organization of the people's groups is presented in [Social Bureau net People's group service statistical data] group category, number of groups

A stacked-area chart that shows Federal SNAP spending, in inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars (millions)

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Social welfare statistics_ related business annual statistical data is presented on the [Department of Social Affairs Statistical Data Related Business Annual Statistics] website.

This program upgrades the skills, knowledge and qualifications of prospective and current child welfare agency staff and supports special projects for training personnel to work in the field of child welfare. These discretionary grants are awarded to public and private non-profit institutions of higher learning and are designed to assist State child welfare agencies in developing a stable and highly skilled workforce for providing effective child welfare services. Further, the Child Welfare Discretionary Grant Projects develop and maintain a strong University- Public Agency Partnership toward the goal of identifying and developing the appropriate staff competencies. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The social welfare statistics and community mutual aid program application data are presented on the Department of Social Affairs website under "Community Development Services Statistics Data."

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.

Adequacy of social insurance programs is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social insurance programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Social insurance programs include old age contributory pensions (including survivors and disability) and social security and health insurance benefits (including occupational injury benefits, paid sick leave, maternity and other social insurance). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.

Includes statistics encompassing labour force status and indicators of unemployment.\r \r For further information about this dataset visit this page on the Department of Social Services website.