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TABLE 10-4 Public Pension Spending

Country Pension Spending as Percentage of GDP Pension Spending as Percentage of Government Expenditures
Other Than Post-Communist Countries
(national averages by income group)
Low 0.7 (32) 3.9 (18)
Lower-middle 2.9 (29) 10.1 (16)
Upper-middle 6.7 (20) 23.8 (13)
High 8.2 (23) 23.1 (20)
Post-Communist Countries
Albania 6.3 14.4
Bulgaria 10.2 21.5
Czech Republic 8.3 --
Slovakia 9.3 18.0
Hungary 11.6 18.3
Poland 14.7 29.2
Romania 6.4 14.9
Russia 6.0 --
Ukraine 7.1 14.8

NOTES: In the first part of the table, the data refer to the period 1985-1992, and figures in parentheses indicate the number of countries for which data are available. The data for post-communist countries refer to 1992. The figure for Russia is an estimate.

SOURCES: For other than post-communist countries, World Bank (1994:103); for post- communist countries, United Nations Children's Fund (1994:96-97).