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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2004; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation covers 75 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 72.24; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.80. The middle country reads 11.88. Against the 2003 compilation, 53 values changed (42 up, 11 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2004

HighestLuxembourg

72.24

LowestDR Congo

0.80

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 75 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2004 reading72.2484.011income2004
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2004 reading62.8675.644income2004
3AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2004 reading59.6869.237income2004
4United StatesUSANorthern America · 2004 reading58.6575.990income2004
5GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2004 reading54.4264.098income2004
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2004 reading53.8065.924income2004
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2004 reading53.3759.233income2004
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2004 reading52.3461.351income2004
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2004 reading51.2059.522income2004
10CanadaCANNorthern America · 2004 reading50.9460.800income2004
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2004 reading48.0759.604income2004
12ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2004 reading47.2656.125income2004
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2004 reading47.0155.092income2004
14FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2004 reading46.6055.067income2004
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2004 reading46.1554.047income2004
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand · 2004 reading43.2552.749income2004
17CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2004 reading42.2949.882income2004
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2004 reading40.2245.064income2004
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2004 reading38.0446.314income2004
20SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2004 reading36.8943.592income2004
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe · 2004 reading35.0241.442income2004
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2004 reading33.8437.386income2004
23CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe · 2004 reading30.6936.013consumption2004
24CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2004 reading26.8130.411income2004
25PortugalPRTSouthern Europe · 2004 reading25.6434.120income2004

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg72.24
  2. 2Switzerland62.86
  3. 3Austria59.68
  4. 4United States58.65
  5. 5Germany54.42

Lowest

  1. 75DR Congo0.80
  2. 74Zambia1.82
  3. 73Malawi1.98
  4. 72India3.11
  5. 71Indonesia3.15

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.88. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Mean income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestLuxembourg84.011

    LowestDR Congo1.125

    Middle country: 15.379

032003 → 2004

Since the 2003 compilation

What changed between the 2003 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 53values changed, of 53 in both
  • 42 · 11rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Switzerland+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Cyprus+ Czechia+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Croatia+ India+ Jamaica+ Mexico+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Netherlands+ Pakistan+ Palestine+ Slovakia+ Thailand+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bulgaria− Bhutan− Chile− Gambia− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Nepal− Philippines− Sierra Leone− Syria− Chad− Uzbekistan− Kosovo

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2004, from 2004 to 2004.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 75 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2004). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2004

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 72.24, of the 75 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation cover?

75.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation.

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