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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2005; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation covers 81 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 74.5447; Niger is lowest, at 1.4541. The middle country reads 9.4214. Against the 2004 compilation, 58 values changed (46 up, 12 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2005

HighestLuxembourg

74.5447

LowestNiger

1.4541

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, 2005 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 81 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2005 reading74.544786.84income2005
2United StatesUSANorthern America · 2005 reading59.090277.62income2005
3AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2005 reading57.866066.17income2005
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2005 reading55.899067.55income2005
5GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2005 reading53.657964.16income2005
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2005 reading53.531759.92income2005
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2005 reading53.150061.28income2005
8CanadaCANNorthern America · 2005 reading52.426962.28income2005
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2005 reading51.816460.16income2005
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2005 reading49.002060.78income2005
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2005 reading48.974257.47income2005
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2005 reading48.162555.88income2005
13ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2005 reading47.078655.26income2005
14FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2005 reading46.373054.39income2005
15CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2005 reading44.786953.26income2005
16TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2005 reading43.044852.47income2005
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2005 reading41.239945.51income2005
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2005 reading38.962648.62income2005
19SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2005 reading38.688244.71income2005
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2005 reading35.139338.70income2005
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe · 2005 reading34.848941.90income2005
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2005 reading27.730631.22income2005
23PortugalPRTSouthern Europe · 2005 reading25.349134.02income2005
24IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2005 reading23.723331.08income2005
25SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2005 reading18.477021.05income2005

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg74.5447
  2. 2United States59.0902
  3. 3Austria57.8660
  4. 4Norway55.8990
  5. 5Germany53.6579

Lowest

  1. 81Niger1.4541
  2. 80Rwanda1.8002
  3. 79Uganda1.9623
  4. 78Solomon Islands2.3559
  5. 77Ghana2.4665

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.4214. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLuxembourg86.84

    LowestNiger2.14

    Middle country: 14.72

032004 → 2005

Since the 2004 compilation

What changed between the 2004 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 59 in both
  • 46 · 12rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bangladesh+ China+ Republic of the Congo+ Micronesia+ Gabon+ Ghana+ Iran+ Kenya+ Madagascar+ Montenegro+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Rwanda+ Senegal+ Solomon Islands+ Tunisia+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Kosovo+ Yemen+ South Africa− Australia− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Switzerland− DR Congo− Comoros− Egypt− Ethiopia− Croatia− India− Jamaica− Mauritania− Malawi− Thailand− Tajikistan− Vietnam− Zambia

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 2005, from 2005 to 2005.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 81 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 (2005). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2005

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 74.5447, of the 81 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation cover?

81.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 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, 2005 compilation the newest?

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

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