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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2007; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation covers 73 countries. Niger is highest, at 39.58; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.36. Against the 2006 compilation, 57 values changed (16 up, 41 down), 14 countries joined, 23 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2007

HighestNiger

39.58

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa39.58consumption2007.31
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2007 reading24.43consumption2007
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2007 reading23.43consumption2007
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading18.45consumption2007
5GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2007 reading14.68consumption2007
6CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2007 reading11.39consumption2007
7IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading10.78consumption2007
8LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia9.17consumption2007.23
9HondurasHNDCentral America · 2007 reading8.81income2007
10Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa7.83consumption2007.33
11TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2007 reading7.64consumption2007
12GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2007 reading7.61consumption2007
13PakistanPAKSouthern Asia7.15consumption2007.5
14PeruPERSouth America · 2007 reading7.10income2007
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2007 reading5.94consumption2007
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2007 reading5.76income2007
17PanamaPANCentral America · 2007 reading4.83income2007
18ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2007 reading4.30income2007
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2007 reading4.23income2007
20EcuadorECUSouth America · 2007 reading4.15income2007
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2007 reading2.69income2007
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2007 reading2.58income2007
23BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2007 reading2.50consumption2007
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2007 reading2.28income2007
25Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2007 reading1.08income2007

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger39.58
  2. 2Tanzania24.43
  3. 3Liberia23.43
  4. 4Timor-Leste18.45
  5. 5Guinea14.68

Lowest

  1. 72Taiwanshared0.00
  2. 72Germanyshared0.00
  3. 69Luxembourgshared0.01
  4. 69Franceshared0.01
  5. 69Denmarkshared0.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.36. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since the 2006 compilation

What changed between the 2006 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −23countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 59 in both
  • 16 · 41rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Cameroon+ Cabo Verde+ Guinea+ Laos+ Liberia+ Mongolia+ Niger+ Pakistan+ Tajikistan+ Timor-Leste+ Taiwan+ Tanzania− Burundi− Chile− Guatemala− Iran− Iraq− Jordan− Kiribati− South Korea− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mexico− North Macedonia− Mali− Mauritius− Malaysia− Philippines− Seychelles− Syria− Togo− Venezuela− Vietnam− Kosovo− 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 2007, from 2007 to 2007.

  • 58 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 4 countries share 0.02. 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 73 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
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    For a spreadsheet or code

    73 rows · 3.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download poverty-gap-2007-nations-inquiry.csv
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    The publisher’s original

    World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

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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 (2007). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2007

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation?

Niger, at 39.58, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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