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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 86.12; Central African Republic is lowest, at 1.92. The middle country reads 17.61. Against the 2020 compilation, 59 values changed (44 up, 15 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestLuxembourg

86.12

LowestCentral African Republic

1.92

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, 2021 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, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2021 reading86.12100.596income2021
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2021 reading75.5387.085income2021
3United StatesUSANorthern America · 2021 reading73.6296.935income2021
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2021 reading73.0789.508income2021
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2021 reading69.2978.754income2021
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe · 2021 reading69.0975.496income2021
7CanadaCANNorthern America · 2021 reading66.3377.730income2021
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2021 reading65.0677.808income2021
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2021 reading64.6574.907income2021
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2021 reading63.2170.838income2021
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2021 reading58.3867.603income2021
12FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2021 reading57.0665.971income2021
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2021 reading56.6764.707income2021
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe · 2021 reading54.5564.321income2021
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia · 2021 reading54.2564.390income2021
16MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2021 reading54.0464.531income2021
17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2021 reading51.9260.643income2021
18CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2021 reading50.7160.302income2021
19ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2021 reading49.7059.081income2021
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2021 reading48.7053.806income2021
21SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2021 reading46.3154.058income2021
22TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2021 reading46.1455.608income2021
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2021 reading42.9352.018income2021
24CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2021 reading41.5947.783income2021
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2021 reading38.9350.228income2021

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg86.12
  2. 2Norway75.53
  3. 3United States73.62
  4. 4Switzerland73.07
  5. 5Austria69.29

Lowest

  1. 82Central African Republic1.92
  2. 81Madagascar2.24
  3. 80Niger2.66
  4. 79Kenya3.16
  5. 78Burkina Faso3.37

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 17.61. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 44 · 15rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 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

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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 (2021). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2021

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 86.12, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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