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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2006; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 73.102; Zambia is lowest, at 1.657. The middle country reads 11.923. Against the 2005 compilation, 59 values changed (50 up, 9 down), 23 countries joined, 22 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2006

HighestLuxembourg

73.102

LowestZambia

1.657

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, 2006 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2006 reading73.10285.84income2006
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2006 reading65.60379.29income2006
3United StatesUSANorthern America · 2006 reading59.76878.96income2006
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2006 reading58.27064.89income2006
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2006 reading58.12867.74income2006
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2006 reading54.68665.87income2006
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2006 reading54.55661.80income2006
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2006 reading54.07664.75income2006
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2006 reading54.03563.90income2006
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2006 reading53.25160.24income2006
11CanadaCANNorthern America · 2006 reading52.89564.05income2006
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2006 reading49.38461.88income2006
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2006 reading48.93356.75income2006
14CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2006 reading48.64558.50income2006
15ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2006 reading47.83756.32income2006
16FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2006 reading46.11353.66income2006
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2006 reading43.22448.22income2006
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2006 reading42.70351.85income2006
19SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2006 reading38.46745.12income2006
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2006 reading36.43840.07income2006
21GreeceGRCSouthern Europe · 2006 reading35.28142.28income2006
22South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2006 reading33.64438.74income2006
23MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2006 reading33.38037.41income2006
24CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2006 reading29.15432.95income2006
25PortugalPRTSouthern Europe · 2006 reading25.88934.62income2006

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg73.102
  2. 2Switzerland65.603
  3. 3United States59.768
  4. 4Norway58.270
  5. 5Austria58.128

Lowest

  1. 82Zambia1.657
  2. 81Burundi1.713
  3. 80Togo2.111
  4. 79Mali2.369
  5. 78Indonesia3.121

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.923. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLuxembourg85.84

    LowestBurundi2.25

    Middle country: 17.12

032005 → 2006

Since the 2005 compilation

What changed between the 2005 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −22countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 50 · 9rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bulgaria+ Switzerland+ Chile+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Jordan+ Kiribati+ South Korea+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ Mali+ Malta+ Mauritius+ Malaysia+ Philippines+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Togo+ Thailand+ Uruguay+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Albania− Azerbaijan− Bangladesh− China− Republic of the Congo− Colombia− Micronesia− Gabon− Ghana− Kenya− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Rwanda− Senegal− Solomon Islands− Tunisia− Taiwan− Uganda− Yemen− South Africa

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 2006, from 2006 to 2006.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 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 (2006). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2006

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 73.102, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 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, 2006 compilation the newest?

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

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