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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2011 compilation

Name: Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2011 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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Each country’s newest reading as of 2011; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2011 compilation covers 82 countries. Togo is highest, at 31.57; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.43. Against the 2010 compilation, 61 values changed (19 up, 42 down), 18 countries joined, 23 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2011

HighestTogo

31.57

Lowest5 countries share it

0.00

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

82countries
1measure
2011compiled · 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, 2011 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, 2011 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Togo`TGO`Western Africa · 2011 reading	31.57	consumption	2011
2	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	30.27	consumption	2011.33
3	Niger`NER`Western Africa · 2011 reading	23.99	consumption	2011
4	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	20.68	consumption	2011.29
5	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa · 2011 reading	18.41	consumption	2011
6	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa · 2011 reading	17.31	consumption	2011
7	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	16.48	consumption	2011.77
8	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	15.99	consumption	2011.67
9	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa · 2011 reading	11.32	consumption	2011
10	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2011 reading	8.17	income	2011
11	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2011 reading	7.37	consumption	2011
12	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2011 reading	7.30	consumption	2011
13	India`IND`Southern Asia	5.25	consumption	2011.5
14	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	5.12	income	2011
15	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	4.77	consumption	2011.5
16	China`CHN`Eastern Asia · 2011 reading	4.31	consumption	2011
17	Colombia`COL`South America · 2011 reading	4.03	income	2011
18	Peru`PER`South America · 2011 reading	3.32	income	2011
19	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2011 reading	2.93	income	2011
20	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2011 reading	2.92	income	2011
21	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2011 reading	2.90	income	2011
22	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	2.84	income	2011
23	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2011 reading	2.68	income	2011
24	Ecuador`ECU`South America · 2011 reading	2.31	income	2011
25	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2011 reading	1.91	income	2011
26	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2011 reading	1.52	consumption	2011
27	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2011 reading	1.43	income	2011
28	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	1.39	income	2011
29	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	1.34	consumption	2011
30	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2011 reading	0.98	income	2011
31	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.89	income	2011
32	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.88	income	2011
33	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.87	income	2011
34	United States`USA`Northern America · 2011 reading	0.81	income	2011
35	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.66	income	2011
36	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.65	income	2011
=37	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2011 reading	0.52	consumption	2011
=37	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.52	consumption	2011.23
=37	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.52	income	2011
40	Chile`CHL`South America · 2011 reading	0.48	income	2011
=41	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2011 reading	0.43	income	2011
=41	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.43	income	2011
=41	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.43	income	2011
44	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.40	income	2011
45	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2011 reading	0.34	consumption	2011
46	Austria`AUT`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.32	income	2011
47	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia · 2011 reading	0.31	consumption	2011
=48	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.26	income	2011
=48	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.26	income	2011
50	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.25	consumption	2011
51	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia · 2011 reading	0.21	income	2011
52	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.20	income	2011
53	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.18	income	2011
54	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2011 reading	0.17	income	2011
55	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.15	income	2011
56	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2011 reading	0.13	income	2011
57	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.12	consumption	2011
=58	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.10	income	2011
=58	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.10	income	2011
=58	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia · 2011 reading	0.10	consumption	2011
=61	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.08	income	2011
=61	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.08	income	2011
=63	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.07	income	2011
=63	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.07	consumption	2011
=65	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.06	income	2011
=65	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia · 2011 reading	0.06	income	2011
=65	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.06	income	2011
=65	Uruguay`URY`South America · 2011 reading	0.06	income	2011
=69	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.04	income	2011
=69	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2011 reading	0.04	consumption	2011
=71	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.03	income	2011
=71	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2011 reading	0.03	consumption	2011
73	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.02	consumption	2011
=74	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.01	consumption	2011
=74	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia · 2011 reading	0.01	income	2011
=74	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.01	income	2011
=74	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2011 reading	0.01	consumption	2011
=78	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.00	consumption	2011.17
=78	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe · 2011 reading	0.00	income	2011
=78	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	0.00	consumption	2011.77
=78	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2011 reading	0.00	income	2011
=78	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2011 reading	0.00	income	2011

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2011 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Togo31.57
2Benin30.27
3Niger23.99
4Senegal20.68
5Chad18.41

Lowest

78Sloveniashared0.00
78Lebanonshared0.00
78Algeriashared0.00
78Denmarkshared0.00
78Switzerlandshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.43. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since the 2010 compilation

What changed between the 2010 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+18 / −23countries joined / left
61values changed, of 64 in both
19 · 42rose · fell
3unchanged

Rose most

Honduras7.41 → 8.17+0.76
Romania2.17 → 2.84+0.67
Bulgaria1.03 → 1.39+0.36
Spain0.53 → 0.87+0.34
Portugal0.08 → 0.26+0.18

Fell most

China6.10 → 4.31−1.79
North Macedonia6.74 → 5.12−1.62
Kyrgyzstan3.01 → 1.52−1.49
Indonesia8.31 → 7.30−1.01
Colombia4.97 → 4.03−0.94

+ Benin

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina

+ Bolivia

+ Brazil

+ Chile

+ Republic of the Congo

+ Algeria

+ India

+ Iran

+ Lebanon

+ Malaysia

+ Niger

+ Senegal

+ Sierra Leone

+ Chad

+ Togo

+ Tanzania

+ Zimbabwe

− Australia

− Bangladesh

− Egypt

− Ethiopia

− Gambia

− Guinea-Bissau

− Jordan

− South Korea

− Madagascar

− Mexico

− Malawi

− Nigeria

− Nepal

− Rwanda

− Serbia

− São Tomé and Príncipe

− Tunisia

− Tuvalu

− Taiwan

− Vietnam

− Vanuatu

− South Africa

− 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

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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 2011, from 2011 to 2011.
61 distinct values among 82
Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 5 countries share 0.00. 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 82 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2011). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2011 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2011

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