New Delhi, April 10 -- Nearly two billion people in low- and middle-income countries (LIC and MIC) were without adequate social protection as of 2022, according to a new report released April 7, 2025.

Around 1.6 billion of them received no social protection at all, while the rest lived in poor households, where benefits were too limited to lift them out of poverty or shield them from shocks like economic crises, climate change, conflicts or long-term economic and life cycle transitions, revealed World Bank in the report the State of Social Protection Report 2025.

In LICs, more than 80 per cent of the population either lacks access to or is inadequately covered by social protection systems. In lower-middle-income countries (LMIC), over ...