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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2008; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation covers 79 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 42.3300; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.3500. Against the 2007 compilation, 56 values changed (17 up, 39 down), 21 countries joined, 15 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2008

HighestMozambique

42.3300

Lowest2 countries share it

0.0000

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, 2008 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa42.3300consumption2008.67
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2008 reading33.8800consumption2008
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2008 reading18.2300consumption2008
4South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa14.2300consumption2008.67
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading9.5900consumption2008
6HondurasHNDCentral America · 2008 reading8.7100income2008
7ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2008 reading8.1800consumption2008
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2008 reading6.7200consumption2008
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.6700consumption2008.5
10ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2008 reading6.4400income2008
11PeruPERSouth America · 2008 reading5.7000income2008
12MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa5.2300consumption2008.2
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2008 reading4.8400income2008
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading4.4100consumption2008
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2008 reading3.8500income2008
16EcuadorECUSouth America · 2008 reading3.7600income2008
17BrazilBRASouth America · 2008 reading3.4200income2008
18MexicoMEXCentral America · 2008 reading3.2900income2008
19PanamaPANCentral America · 2008 reading3.0500income2008
20KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2008 reading2.9200consumption2008
21ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2008 reading2.4300income2008
22RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2008 reading2.0600income2008
23Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2008 reading1.9500income2008
24Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2008 reading1.3500income2008
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2008 reading0.9500income2008

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique42.3300
  2. 2Central African Republic33.8800
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire18.2300
  4. 4South Africa14.2300
  5. 5Indonesia9.5900

Lowest

  1. 78Sloveniashared0.0000
  2. 78Luxembourgshared0.0000
  3. 77Croatia0.0001
  4. 74Jordanshared0.0100
  5. 74Franceshared0.0100

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.3500. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 compilation

What changed between the 2007 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −15countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 58 in both
  • 17 · 39rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

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 2008, from 2008 to 2008.

  • 60 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 5 countries share 0.0800. 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 79 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

    79 rows · 3.8 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download poverty-gap-2008-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 (2008). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2008

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation?

Mozambique, at 42.3300, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2008 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, 2008 compilation the newest?

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

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