Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day 2016

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Report year 2016Data year 2016

Poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by World Bank Group

21 reference years (2002–2022), covering 68 to 94 countries, from the World Bank’s own Poverty and Inequality Platform. The average shortfall below $3.00 a day across the WHOLE population, counting everyone above the line as a shortfall of zero. ⚠ IT ANSWERS A DIFFERENT QUESTION FROM THE HEADCOUNT, already on the site: the headcount says how many people are poor, the gap says how far below the line they fall. Two countries with the same headcount can have very different gaps, and the gap is the one that says what it would cost to close. ⚠ THE LINE MOVED IN 2025, from $2.15 at 2017 PPPs — the yardstick was re-based, so these figures are not comparable with published $1.90 or $2.15 figures from earlier reports. ⚠ THE COUNTRY SET CHANGES EVERY YEAR: each figure comes from whichever household survey that country happened to run, so a country missing from an edition did not escape poverty, it did not run a survey. ⚠ Read from PIP rather than the Bank’s indicator API, which rounds the same figure to one decimal — comparing 2022 row for row, 60 of 72 values differ and PIP carries more decimals in every one of them; Belgium is 0.01% at PIP and 0 at the API. ⚠ No rank is published, so none is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours. Its deepest tie is five countries sharing exactly 0 — a genuine reading, not a rounding artefact, and the same case that let `poverty-headcount` opt in.

Source

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day 2016 — World Bank Group

Cite as: World Bank. Poverty and Inequality Platform. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Licence: CC BY 4.0

The average shortfall below $3.00 a day across the whole population, counting people above the line as a shortfall of zero, exactly as published by the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform. Where the headcount says HOW MANY people are poor, the gap says HOW FAR below the line they are — two countries with the same headcount can have very different gaps. Read from PIP rather than the Bank's indicator API, which rounds to one decimal.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day 2016 — 84 rows. Column headings sort the table.
Country	ISO Code	Poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
Belarus	BLR	0.00	consumption	2,016.00
Czechia	CZE	0.00	income	2,016.00
Iceland	ISL	0.00	income	2,016.00
Slovenia	SVN	0.00	income	2,016.00
Maldives	MDV	0.01	consumption	2,016.00
Kazakhstan	KAZ	0.02	consumption	2,016.00
Netherlands	NLD	0.02	income	2,016.00
Thailand	THA	0.02	consumption	2,016.00
Cyprus	CYP	0.03	income	2,016.00
Finland	FIN	0.03	income	2,016.00
Switzerland	CHE	0.03	income	2,016.00
Taiwan	TWN	0.03	income	2,016.00
Ukraine	UKR	0.04	consumption	2,016.00
Uruguay	URY	0.04	income	2,016.00
Belgium	BEL	0.05	income	2,016.00
France	FRA	0.05	income	2,016.00
Moldova	MDA	0.05	consumption	2,016.00
Luxembourg	LUX	0.07	income	2,016.00
Germany	DEU	0.08	income	2,016.00
Malta	MLT	0.08	income	2,016.00
South Korea	KOR	0.10	income	2,016.00
Israel	ISR	0.13	income	2,016.00
Russia	RUS	0.13	income	2,016.00
Albania	ALB	0.14	consumption	2,016.00
Ireland	IRL	0.14	income	2,016.00
Poland	POL	0.15	income	2,016.00
Türkiye	TUR	0.17	consumption	2,016.00
Canada	CAN	0.18	income	2,016.00
Norway	NOR	0.19	income	2,016.00
China	CHN	0.21	consumption	2,016.00
Denmark	DNK	0.22	income	2,016.00
Sweden	SWE	0.22	income	2,016.00
Portugal	PRT	0.24	income	2,016.00
United Kingdom	GBR	0.25	income	2,016.00
Japan	JPN	0.28	income	2,016.00
Mongolia	MNG	0.28	consumption	2,016.00
Palestine	PSE	0.29	consumption	2,016.75
Australia	AUS	0.34	income	2,016.00
Estonia	EST	0.34	income	2,016.00
Croatia	HRV	0.39	income	2,016.00
Latvia	LVA	0.39	income	2,016.00
Argentina	ARG	0.44	income	2,016.00
Armenia	ARM	0.44	consumption	2,016.00
Kosovo	XKX	0.47	consumption	2,016.00
Vietnam	VNM	0.50	consumption	2,016.00
Austria	AUT	0.53	income	2,016.00
Sri Lanka	LKA	0.56	consumption	2,016.00
Iran	IRN	0.59	consumption	2,016.23
Greece	GRC	0.69	income	2,016.00
Spain	ESP	0.78	income	2,016.00
Costa Rica	CRI	0.79	income	2,016.00
Dominican Republic	DOM	0.80	income	2,016.00
Lithuania	LTU	0.80	income	2,016.00
Barbados	BRB	0.87	consumption	2,016.00
United States	USA	0.89	income	2,016.00
Hungary	HUN	0.95	income	2,016.00
Paraguay	PRY	0.97	income	2,016.00
Bulgaria	BGR	1.11	income	2,016.00
Slovakia	SVK	1.14	income	2,016.00
Mexico	MEX	1.19	income	2,016.00
Italy	ITA	1.24	income	2,016.00
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	1.25	consumption	2,016.00
Panama	PAN	1.35	income	2,016.00
El Salvador	SLV	1.37	income	2,016.00
Ecuador	ECU	1.69	income	2,016.00
Romania	ROU	1.69	income	2,016.00
Montenegro	MNE	1.72	income	2,016.00
North Macedonia	MKD	2.25	income	2,016.00
Peru	PER	2.30	income	2,016.00
Brazil	BRA	2.45	income	2,016.00
Georgia	GEO	2.68	consumption	2,016.00
Bolivia	BOL	3.29	income	2,016.00
Indonesia	IDN	3.70	consumption	2,016.00
Bangladesh	BGD	3.82	consumption	2,016.00
Colombia	COL	3.94	income	2,016.00
Serbia	SRB	4.60	income	2,016.00
Honduras	HND	8.10	income	2,016.00
Liberia	LBR	9.88	consumption	2,016.00
Ghana	GHA	15.85	consumption	2,016.75
Eswatini	SWZ	17.72	consumption	2,016.17
Uganda	UGA	23.66	consumption	2,016.50
Rwanda	RWA	25.79	consumption	2,016.77
Malawi	MWI	30.36	consumption	2,016.31
South Sudan	SSD	40.83	consumption	2,016.50

Country

ISO Code

Poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)

Survey measures

Survey year

Belarus

BLR

0.00

consumption

2,016.00

Czechia

CZE