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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2011; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 71.377; Benin is lowest, at 2.089. The middle country reads 15.121. Against the 2010 compilation, 64 values changed (40 up, 24 down), 18 countries joined, 23 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2011

HighestLuxembourg

71.377

LowestBenin

2.089

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, 2011 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, 2011 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2011 reading71.37783.768income2011
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2011 reading71.22278.268income2011
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2011 reading70.21383.058income2011
4AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2011 reading63.62073.630income2011
5United StatesUSANorthern America · 2011 reading58.03276.389income2011
6CanadaCANNorthern America · 2011 reading57.75668.433income2011
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2011 reading56.90565.264income2011
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2011 reading56.61064.343income2011
9GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2011 reading55.72366.073income2011
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2011 reading55.13661.473income2011
11FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2011 reading54.55966.949income2011
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2011 reading53.48761.953income2011
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2011 reading49.34759.365income2011
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2011 reading48.49853.991income2011
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2011 reading48.47354.518income2011
16CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2011 reading46.91258.164income2011
17ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2011 reading46.05954.612income2011
18SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2011 reading41.76149.734income2011
19JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2011 reading39.76746.310income2011
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2011 reading39.53043.389income2011
21MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2011 reading37.32642.391income2011
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2011 reading36.53843.782income2011
23CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2011 reading32.20835.954income2011
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe · 2011 reading28.05232.288income2011
25IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2011 reading26.90334.789income2011

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg71.377
  2. 2Norway71.222
  3. 3Switzerland70.213
  4. 4Austria63.620
  5. 5United States58.032

Lowest

  1. 82Benin2.089
  2. 81Togo2.140
  3. 80Niger2.333
  4. 79Senegal2.819
  5. 78Sierra Leone2.849

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.121. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLuxembourg83.768

    LowestNiger2.896

    Middle country: 20.957

032010 → 2011

Since the 2010 compilation

What changed between the 2010 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −23countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 64 in both
  • 40 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Brazil+ Chile+ Republic of the Congo+ Algeria+ India+ Iran+ Lebanon+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Guinea-Bissau− Jordan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mexico− Malawi− Nigeria− Nepal− Rwanda− Serbia− São Tomé and Príncipe− Tunisia− Tuvalu− Taiwan− Vietnam− Vanuatu− South Africa− 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 2011, from 2011 to 2011.

  • 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 (2011). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2011

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 71.377, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 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, 2011 compilation the newest?

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

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