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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 84.03; DR Congo is lowest, at 1.32. The middle country reads 25.09. Against the 2019 compilation, 62 values changed (38 up, 24 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestLuxembourg

84.03

LowestDR Congo

1.32

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, 2020 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, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2020 reading84.03100.85income2020
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2020 reading74.2584.39income2020
3United StatesUSANorthern America · 2020 reading74.1496.53income2020
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2020 reading72.5988.41income2020
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2020 reading70.2978.90income2020
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2020 reading68.0774.23income2020
7CanadaCANNorthern America · 2020 reading67.0877.79income2020
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2020 reading65.8478.19income2020
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2020 reading63.8973.06income2020
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2020 reading61.5268.14income2020
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand · 2020 reading59.7172.71income2020
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2020 reading57.6766.24income2020
13FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2020 reading57.4765.79income2020
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2020 reading56.9864.67income2020
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2020 reading53.3763.45income2020
16MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2020 reading51.9161.49income2020
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2020 reading51.6161.33income2020
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2020 reading50.4059.42income2020
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2020 reading48.3658.77income2020
20ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2020 reading47.9357.01income2020
21TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2020 reading46.5355.91income2020
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2020 reading46.3151.11income2020
23SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2020 reading45.0752.62income2020
24JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2020 reading42.1748.11income2020
25CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2020 reading39.8445.30income2020

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg84.03
  2. 2Norway74.25
  3. 3United States74.14
  4. 4Switzerland72.59
  5. 5Austria70.29

Lowest

  1. 71DR Congo1.32
  2. 70Burundi2.01
  3. 69Kenya3.25
  4. 68Gambia4.86
  5. 67Kyrgyzstan5.29

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 25.09. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLuxembourg100.85

    LowestDR Congo1.95

    Middle country: 31.26

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 38 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− Zimbabwe

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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 71 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 (2020). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2020

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 84.03, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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