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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation

Name: Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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Each country’s newest reading as of 2010; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation covers 87 countries. Guinea-Bissau is highest, at 38.75; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.53. Against the 2009 compilation, 60 values changed (27 up, 33 down), 25 countries joined, 21 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2010

HighestGuinea-Bissau

38.75

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

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

87countries
1measure
2010compiled · readings from many years
70distinct 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, 2010 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, 2010 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa · 2010 reading	38.75	consumption	2010
2	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa · 2010 reading	38.38	consumption	2010
3	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	34.83	consumption	2010.23
4	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	30.69	consumption	2010.83
5	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa · 2010 reading	26.49	consumption	2010
6	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	11.87	consumption	2010.5
7	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	11.18	consumption	2010.08
8	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	10.44	consumption	2010.5
9	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa · 2010 reading	9.62	consumption	2010
10	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2010 reading	8.31	consumption	2010
11	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2010 reading	7.82	consumption	2010
12	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2010 reading	7.41	income	2010
13	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia · 2010 reading	7.09	consumption	2010
14	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	6.74	income	2010
15	China`CHN`Eastern Asia · 2010 reading	6.10	consumption	2010
16	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia · 2010 reading	5.05	consumption	2010
17	Colombia`COL`South America · 2010 reading	4.97	income	2010
18	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	4.85	consumption	2010.5
19	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	4.49	consumption	2010.17
20	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa · 2010 reading	4.06	consumption	2010
21	Peru`PER`South America · 2010 reading	3.58	income	2010
22	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2010 reading	3.19	income	2010
23	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2010 reading	3.11	income	2010
24	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2010 reading	3.01	consumption	2010
25	Ecuador`ECU`South America · 2010 reading	2.64	income	2010
26	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2010 reading	2.62	income	2010
27	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2010 reading	2.60	income	2010
28	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	2.17	income	2010
29	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	2.05	consumption	2010
30	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia · 2010 reading	1.74	consumption	2010
31	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2010 reading	1.32	income	2010
32	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2010 reading	1.13	consumption	2010
33	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	1.10	income	2010
=34	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	1.03	income	2010
=34	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	1.03	income	2010
=36	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.93	income	2010
=36	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.93	income	2010
38	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2010 reading	0.91	income	2010
39	United States`USA`Northern America · 2010 reading	0.86	income	2010
40	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.74	income	2010
41	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.69	consumption	2010.41
42	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2010 reading	0.56	consumption	2010
43	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.54	income	2010
44	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.53	income	2010
45	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia · 2010 reading	0.50	consumption	2010
46	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2010 reading	0.48	income	2010
47	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2010 reading	0.45	consumption	2010
48	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.41	income	2010
49	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.40	income	2010
50	Austria`AUT`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.36	income	2010
51	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand · 2010 reading	0.34	income	2010
52	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.32	income	2010
53	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia · 2010 reading	0.28	income	2010
54	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia · 2010 reading	0.27	income	2010
55	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2010 reading	0.23	income	2010
=56	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.20	income	2010
=56	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.20	income	2010
58	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.19	consumption	2010.49
59	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.16	consumption	2010
60	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2010 reading	0.15	income	2010
61	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.14	income	2010
=62	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.11	income	2010
=62	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.11	income	2010
=64	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.10	income	2010
=64	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2010 reading	0.10	consumption	2010
=66	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.09	income	2010
=66	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2010 reading	0.09	consumption	2010
=68	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia · 2010 reading	0.08	consumption	2010
=68	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.08	income	2010
=68	Uruguay`URY`South America · 2010 reading	0.08	income	2010
71	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.07	consumption	2010
72	Taiwan`TWN`Eastern Asia · 2010 reading	0.06	income	2010
73	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.05	income	2010
=74	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.04	income	2010
=74	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.04	consumption	2010
=76	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.03	income	2010
=76	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.03	consumption	2010.24
=76	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.03	income	2010
=79	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.02	consumption	2010
=79	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia · 2010 reading	0.02	income	2010
=79	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.02	income	2010
=79	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.02	income	2010
=83	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe · 2010 reading	0.01	income	2010
=83	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.01	income	2010
=83	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2010 reading	0.01	consumption	2010
=86	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2010 reading	0.00	income	2010
=86	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe · 2010 reading	0.00	consumption	2010

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Guinea-Bissau38.75
2Zambia38.38
3Malawi34.83
4Rwanda30.69
5Madagascar26.49

Lowest

86Montenegroshared0.00
86Luxembourgshared0.00
83Ukraineshared0.01
83Sloveniashared0.01
83Denmarkshared0.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.53. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since the 2009 compilation

What changed between the 2009 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+25 / −21countries joined / left
60values changed, of 62 in both
27 · 33rose · fell
2unchanged

Rose most

Kyrgyzstan1.70 → 3.01+1.31
North Macedonia5.45 → 6.74+1.29
Georgia6.66 → 7.82+1.16
Honduras6.70 → 7.41+0.71
Romania1.47 → 2.17+0.70

Fell most

Indonesia9.56 → 8.31−1.25
Peru4.62 → 3.58−1.04
Ecuador3.44 → 2.64−0.80
Colombia5.65 → 4.97−0.68
Costa Rica1.50 → 0.91−0.59

+ Australia

+ Bangladesh

+ China

+ Egypt

+ Ethiopia

+ Gambia

+ Guinea-Bissau

+ Jordan

+ South Korea

+ Madagascar

+ Mexico

+ Mongolia

+ Malawi

+ Nigeria

+ Nepal

+ Pakistan

+ Rwanda

+ São Tomé and Príncipe

+ Tunisia

+ Tuvalu

+ Taiwan

+ Vietnam

+ Vanuatu

+ South Africa

+ Zambia

− Burkina Faso

− Bolivia

− Brazil

− Botswana

− Chile

− India

− Iran

− Sri Lanka

− Maldives

− Mali

− Namibia

− Nicaragua

− Philippines

− Papua New Guinea

− Sudan

− South Sudan

− Eswatini

− Syria

− Tajikistan

− Tonga

− Uganda

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 2010, from 2010 to 2010.
70 distinct values among 87
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 87 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2010). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2010

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