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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 16.96; 7 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.30. Against the 2016 compilation, 60 values changed (26 up, 34 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestLesotho

16.96

Lowest7 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, 2017 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, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.96consumption2017.14
2ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2017 reading14.75consumption2017
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading9.08consumption2017
4KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2017 reading7.98income2017
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2017 reading7.58income2017
6SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2017 reading3.66income2017
7ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2017 reading3.62income2017
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2017 reading3.26consumption2017
9São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading3.17consumption2017
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading2.98consumption2017
11BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2017 reading2.77income2017
12BrazilBRASouth America · 2017 reading2.75income2017
13North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2017 reading2.41income2017
14PeruPERSouth America · 2017 reading2.25income2017
15MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2017 reading2.10income2017
16RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2017 reading1.82income2017
17MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading1.79consumption2017
18PanamaPANCentral America · 2017 reading1.57income2017
19EcuadorECUSouth America · 2017 reading1.45income2017
20KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2017 reading1.33consumption2017
=21El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2017 reading1.10income2017
=21ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2017 reading1.10income2017
23GabonGABMiddle Africa · 2017 reading1.00consumption2017
24United StatesUSANorthern America · 2017 reading0.99income2017
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2017 reading0.82income2017

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lesotho16.96
  2. 2Zimbabwe14.75
  3. 3Djibouti9.08
  4. 4Kosovo7.98
  5. 5Honduras7.58

Lowest

  1. 73Taiwanshared0.00
  2. 73Sloveniashared0.00
  3. 73Qatarshared0.00
  4. 73Icelandshared0.00
  5. 73Czechiashared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.30. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 68 in both
  • 26 · 34rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 58 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 7 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 79 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 · 3.7 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download poverty-gap-2017-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 (2017). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2017

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation?

Lesotho, at 16.96, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2017 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, 2017 compilation the newest?

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

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