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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2010; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation covers 87 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 72.9697; Zambia is lowest, at 1.7386. The middle country reads 13.1477. Against the 2009 compilation, 62 values changed (37 up, 25 down), 25 countries joined, 21 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2010

HighestLuxembourg

72.9697

LowestZambia

1.7386

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, 2010 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2010 reading72.969784.757income2010
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2010 reading68.600681.895income2010
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2010 reading67.054674.596income2010
4AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2010 reading65.371375.037income2010
5United StatesUSANorthern America · 2010 reading58.357575.460income2010
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2010 reading58.269166.321income2010
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2010 reading57.365865.093income2010
8CanadaCANNorthern America · 2010 reading56.889168.057income2010
9GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2010 reading55.924065.786income2010
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2010 reading55.914863.008income2010
11FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2010 reading54.261666.602income2010
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand · 2010 reading53.389766.455income2010
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2010 reading53.376461.602income2010
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2010 reading49.975160.721income2010
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2010 reading48.420854.023income2010
16CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2010 reading48.076358.433income2010
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2010 reading47.836053.957income2010
18ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2010 reading47.023455.439income2010
19SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2010 reading43.090151.666income2010
20JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2010 reading42.147748.246income2010
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2010 reading39.757243.762income2010
22TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2010 reading38.062846.328income2010
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2010 reading37.997744.984income2010
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2010 reading36.597041.548income2010
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2010 reading34.885140.584income2010

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg72.9697
  2. 2Switzerland68.6006
  3. 3Norway67.0546
  4. 4Austria65.3713
  5. 5United States58.3575

Lowest

  1. 87Zambia1.7386
  2. 86Guinea-Bissau1.7530
  3. 85Malawi1.8985
  4. 84Rwanda2.0849
  5. 83Madagascar2.3306

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.1477. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLuxembourg84.757

    LowestMalawi2.848

    Middle country: 17.328

032009 → 2010

Since the 2009 compilation

What changed between the 2009 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +25 / −21countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 37 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Greece38.2050 → 33.2042−5.0008
  • Iceland52.5701 → 48.4208−4.1493
  • Spain45.9881 → 43.0901−2.8980
  • Croatia23.2052 → 21.4174−1.7878
  • Luxembourg74.6000 → 72.9697−1.6303
+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ China+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jordan+ South Korea+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Tunisia+ Tuvalu+ Taiwan+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu+ South Africa+ Zambia− Burkina Faso− Bolivia− Brazil− Botswana− Chile− India− Iran− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mali− Namibia− Nicaragua− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Sudan− South Sudan− Eswatini− Syria− Tajikistan− Tonga− Uganda

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 2010, from 2010 to 2010.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 87 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 (2010). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2010

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 72.9697, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 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, 2010 compilation the newest?

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

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