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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries on 2 measures. Norway is highest, at 76.9165; Mozambique is lowest, at 1.4392. The middle country reads 19.8162. Against the 2018 compilation, 67 values changed (52 up, 15 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestNorway

76.9165

LowestMozambique

1.4392

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, 2019 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.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2019 reading76.916587.23income2019
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2019 reading75.081891.26income2019
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2019 reading71.441887.45income2019
4United StatesUSANorthern America · 2019 reading70.515894.13income2019
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2019 reading68.555778.70income2019
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2019 reading62.988974.75income2019
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2019 reading62.944872.54income2019
8CanadaCANNorthern America · 2019 reading62.880673.57income2019
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2019 reading61.237671.04income2019
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2019 reading61.043868.42income2019
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2019 reading60.632768.33income2019
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2019 reading57.725666.27income2019
13FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2019 reading55.670764.41income2019
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2019 reading55.612663.46income2019
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2019 reading54.921164.32income2019
16South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2019 reading49.876659.10income2019
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2019 reading49.323458.86income2019
18ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2019 reading48.831257.17income2019
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2019 reading47.971857.27income2019
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2019 reading47.406956.89income2019
21SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2019 reading45.106152.47income2019
22TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2019 reading44.300753.13income2019
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2019 reading44.281648.71income2019
24JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2019 reading40.175446.60income2019
25CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2019 reading39.111244.54income2019

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Norway76.9165
  2. 2Luxembourg75.0818
  3. 3Switzerland71.4418
  4. 4United States70.5158
  5. 5Austria68.5557

Lowest

  1. 79Mozambique1.4392
  2. 78Malawi1.9209
  3. 77Uganda2.5614
  4. 76Zimbabwe3.0479
  5. 75Vanuatu5.1672

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 19.8162. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestUnited States94.13

    LowestMozambique2.37

    Middle country: 27.90

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 52 · 15rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • France56.8413 → 55.6707−1.1706
  • Argentina21.7884 → 20.6713−1.1171
  • Israel36.1355 → 35.2582−0.8773
  • Iran9.3968 → 8.6769−0.7199
  • Denmark61.7246 → 61.2376−0.4870
+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Jamaica− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Seychelles− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Vietnam

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 79 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (2019). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2019

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation?

Norway, at 76.9165, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 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, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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