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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Niger is highest, at 19.69; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.46. Against the 2017 compilation, 60 values changed (22 up, 38 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestNiger

19.69

Lowest4 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, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa19.69consumption2018.57
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa16.74consumption2017.92
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa16.30consumption2018.17
4Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa15.52consumption2018.5
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa12.76consumption2018.5
6TogoTGOWestern Africa11.73consumption2018.43
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2018 reading11.25consumption2018
8BeninBENWestern Africa10.65consumption2018.5
9KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading10.64income2018
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa10.36consumption2018.75
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa9.80consumption2018.43
12HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading7.75income2018
13MaliMLIWestern Africa7.17consumption2018.57
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa5.23consumption2018.5
15SenegalSENWestern Africa4.11consumption2018.5
16ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading3.87income2018
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia3.26consumption2018.42
18GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2018 reading3.08consumption2018
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading2.75income2018
20PakistanPAKSouthern Asia2.69consumption2018.5
21IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading2.48consumption2018
22GuineaGINWestern Africa2.46consumption2018.5
23SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2018 reading1.85income2018
24BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2018 reading1.83income2018
25PeruPERSouth America · 2018 reading1.79income2018

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger19.69
  2. 2Tanzania16.74
  3. 3Angola16.30
  4. 4Burkina Faso15.52
  5. 5Chad12.76

Lowest

  1. 91Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 91Moldovashared0.00
  3. 91Belarusshared0.00
  4. 91United Arab Emiratesshared0.00
  5. 87Malaysiashared0.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.46. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 67 in both
  • 22 · 38rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 71 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 4 countries share 0.08. 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 94 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.

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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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2018). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2018

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation?

Niger, at 19.69, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2018 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, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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