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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 45.76; 6 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.38. Against the 2018 compilation, 60 values changed (22 up, 38 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestMozambique

45.76

Lowest6 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, 2019 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, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa45.76consumption2019.92
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa33.78consumption2019.31
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa23.29consumption2019.64
4ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading19.02consumption2019
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading6.92income2019
6KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading4.97income2019
7VanuatuVUTMelanesia4.89consumption2019.21
8ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading4.47income2019
9BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading2.83income2019
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2019 reading2.54consumption2019
11MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa2.48consumption2019.6
12IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2019 reading1.98consumption2019
13EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading1.55income2019
14PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading1.51income2019
15North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2019 reading1.50income2019
16SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2019 reading1.45income2019
17RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2019 reading1.07income2019
18KiribatiKIRMicronesia0.97consumption2019.27
19BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2019 reading0.96income2019
20MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2019 reading0.93income2019
21IranIRNSouthern Asia0.89consumption2019.23
22PanamaPANCentral America · 2019 reading0.86income2019
23KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2019 reading0.85consumption2019
24ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2019 reading0.82income2019
=25FijiFJIMelanesia0.77consumption2019.15

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique45.76
  2. 2Malawi33.78
  3. 3Uganda23.29
  4. 4Zimbabwe19.02
  5. 5Honduras6.92

Lowest

  1. 74Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 74Maldivesshared0.00
  3. 74Moldovashared0.00
  4. 74Czechiashared0.00
  5. 74Chinashared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.38. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

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

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− 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

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 60 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 6 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-2019-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 (2019). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2019

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation?

Mozambique, at 45.76, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2019 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, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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