Timor-Leste is an island country with a population of 1.3million people as of 2020. Timor-Leste has some social protection schemes in place. Hover over the icons below to see which of these life-cycle risks Timor-Leste is addressing and how.
Timor-Leste has a Social Pension for people with disability and a General Social Security Scheme (GSS) - Invalidity benefit for formal workers with disability. Similarly, for people who experience vulnerable times in their lives they can access the National Liberation Combatants and Martyrs' Pension.