Latest available · compiled 2004

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation

Name: Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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Each country’s newest reading as of 2004; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation covers 75 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 65.33; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.79. Against the 2003 compilation, 53 values changed (20 up, 33 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2004

HighestDR Congo

65.33

Lowest3 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

75countries
1measure
2004compiled · readings from many years
61distinct values2 decimals, as published
Sep 26, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 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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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	65.33	consumption	2004.89
2	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	37.23	consumption	2004.67
3	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	32.41	consumption	2004.23
4	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2004 reading	15.19	income	2004
5	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2004 reading	12.04	consumption	2004
6	India`IND`Southern Asia	10.95	consumption	2004.5
7	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia · 2004 reading	10.68	consumption	2004
=8	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	10.31	consumption	2004.5
=8	Venezuela`VEN`South America · 2004 reading	10.31	income	2004
10	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	9.67	consumption	2004.5
11	Peru`PER`South America · 2004 reading	8.75	income	2004
12	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2004 reading	8.35	consumption	2004
13	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2004 reading	8.28	consumption	2004
14	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	8.01	consumption	2004.55
15	Ecuador`ECU`South America · 2004 reading	7.83	income	2004
16	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa · 2004 reading	7.57	consumption	2004
17	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2004 reading	7.03	income	2004
18	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2004 reading	6.70	consumption	2004
19	Colombia`COL`South America · 2004 reading	6.63	income	2004
20	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2004 reading	6.44	income	2004
=21	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2004 reading	5.75	income	2004
=21	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2004 reading	5.75	income	2004
23	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2004 reading	4.62	income	2004
24	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2004 reading	3.91	income	2004
25	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2004 reading	3.29	income	2004
26	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2004 reading	2.61	income	2004
27	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	2.56	consumption	2004
28	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2004 reading	2.37	consumption	2004
29	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2004 reading	2.06	income	2004
30	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	1.66	income	2004
31	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	1.63	income	2004
32	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2004 reading	1.47	consumption	2004
33	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2004 reading	1.43	consumption	2004
34	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	1.30	income	2004
35	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean · 2004 reading	1.08	consumption	2004
36	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.83	consumption	2004
37	United States`USA`Northern America · 2004 reading	0.81	income	2004
38	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.79	consumption	2004
39	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.72	income	2004
40	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.63	income	2004
41	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.60	consumption	2004.49
42	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.53	income	2004
43	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2004 reading	0.51	consumption	2004
44	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.50	income	2004
=45	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand · 2004 reading	0.48	income	2004
=45	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.48	consumption	2004
47	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.43	consumption	2004
48	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2004 reading	0.40	income	2004
49	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.38	consumption	2004
50	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia · 2004 reading	0.37	consumption	2004
51	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.34	consumption	2004
=52	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.33	income	2004
=52	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.33	income	2004
=54	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.22	income	2004
=54	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.22	income	2004
56	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.20	income	2004
57	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2004 reading	0.18	income	2004
58	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.13	income	2004
59	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.11	income	2004
=60	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.10	consumption	2004
=60	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.10	income	2004
=62	Austria`AUT`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.07	income	2004
=62	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia · 2004 reading	0.07	income	2004
=62	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.07	income	2004
65	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.05	income	2004
=66	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.03	income	2004
=66	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.03	income	2004
=66	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.03	income	2004
=66	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.03	income	2004
=66	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2004 reading	0.03	income	2004
71	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.02	income	2004
72	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2004 reading	0.01	income	2004
=73	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia · 2004 reading	0.00	consumption	2004
=73	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe · 2004 reading	0.00	consumption	2004
=73	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2004 reading	0.00	income	2004

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1DR Congo65.33
2Zambia37.23
3Malawi32.41
4Honduras15.19
5Indonesia12.04

Lowest

73Croatiashared0.00
73Czechiashared0.00
73Azerbaijanshared0.00
72Luxembourg0.01
71Slovenia0.02

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.79. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since the 2003 compilation

What changed between the 2003 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+22 / −16countries joined / left
53values changed, of 53 in both
20 · 33rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Lithuania0.09 → 1.66+1.57
Latvia0.30 → 1.63+1.33
Poland0.03 → 1.30+1.27
Dominican Republic3.63 → 4.62+0.99
Peru7.81 → 8.75+0.94

Fell most

Tajikistan19.04 → 10.68−8.36
Kyrgyzstan16.18 → 8.28−7.90
El Salvador10.14 → 7.03−3.11
Venezuela12.12 → 10.31−1.81
Paraguay4.78 → 3.29−1.49

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina

+ Bolivia

+ Switzerland

+ DR Congo

+ Comoros

+ Cyprus

+ Czechia

+ Egypt

+ Ethiopia

+ Croatia

+ India

+ Jamaica

+ Mexico

+ Mauritania

+ Malawi

+ Netherlands

+ Pakistan

+ Palestine

+ Slovakia

+ Thailand

+ Vietnam

+ Zambia

− Benin

− Burkina Faso

− Bulgaria

− Bhutan

− Chile

− Gambia

− Malaysia

− Namibia

− Nigeria

− Nepal

− Philippines

− Sierra Leone

− Syria

− Chad

− Uzbekistan

− Kosovo

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

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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 2004, from 2004 to 2004.
61 distinct values among 75
Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 5 countries share 0.03. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 75 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2004). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2004

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