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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 48.69; 7 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.28. Against the 2019 compilation, 54 values changed (29 up, 25 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

48.69

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading48.69consumption2020
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa32.44consumption2020.15
3KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading13.72consumption2020
4KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading10.12income2020
5ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading7.28income2020
6GambiaGMBWestern Africa5.85consumption2020.08
=7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2020 reading3.14consumption2020
=7PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading3.14income2020
9EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading2.91income2020
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading1.73consumption2020
11ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading1.69consumption2020
12KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading1.53consumption2020
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading1.39income2020
14Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading1.32income2020
15MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading1.16income2020
16MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2020 reading1.01income2020
17SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading1.00income2020
18IranIRNSouthern Asia0.98consumption2020.23
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading0.96income2020
20ChileCHLSouth America · 2020 reading0.94income2020
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2020 reading0.92income2020
22ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading0.65income2020
23ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.64income2020
24AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand · 2020 reading0.63income2020
25SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.60income2020

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo48.69
  2. 2Burundi32.44
  3. 3Kenya13.72
  4. 4Kosovo10.12
  5. 5Colombia7.28

Lowest

  1. 65Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 65Moldovashared0.00
  3. 65Luxembourgshared0.00
  4. 65Kazakhstanshared0.00
  5. 65Czechiashared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.28. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 54values changed, of 62 in both
  • 29 · 25rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 54 distinct values among 71

    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 71 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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    71 rows · 3.4 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download poverty-gap-2020-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 (2020). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2020

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation?

DR Congo, at 48.69, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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