Less than a quarter Indians under social protection net: ILO Report

Mongolia, New Zealand, Singapore and Australia lead the chart in the Asia Pacific region with 100 per cent of their population covered under at least one social protection benefit

Only 24.4 per cent of Indians, even fewer than Bangladesh (28.4 per cent), are under any sort of social protection benefit, according to a latest report on social protection by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), released on Friday.

The report titled ‘World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific’ is a companion to the ILO’s ‘World Social Protection Report 2021-22’, that gives a regional overview of the social protection in the Asia and Pacific region.

The report notes that Mongolia, New Zealand, Singapore and Australia have 100 per cent social protection net, while in Myanmar and Cambodia,