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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 34.400; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 0.335. Against the 2020 compilation, 52 values changed (18 up, 34 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestCentral African Republic

34.400

Lowest2 countries share it

0.000

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, 2021 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.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading34.400consumption2021
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa27.580consumption2021.75
3NigerNERWestern Africa18.630consumption2021.5
4KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading13.930consumption2021
5KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading13.190income2021
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa12.490consumption2021.67
7Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa11.490consumption2021.75
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading10.750consumption2021
9TogoTGOWestern Africa10.380consumption2021.63
10MaliMLIWestern Africa9.610consumption2021.57
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa8.150consumption2021.67
12BeninBENWestern Africa7.060consumption2021.75
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.700consumption2021.75
14ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading4.410income2021
15SenegalSENWestern Africa4.200consumption2021.71
16BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading2.900income2021
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2021 reading2.890consumption2021
18El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading2.050income2021
19TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2021 reading2.030consumption2021
20PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading1.620income2021
21UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2021 reading1.520income2021
22IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading1.500consumption2021
23EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading1.490income2021
24PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading1.410income2021
25MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2021 reading1.220income2021

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic34.400
  2. 2Madagascar27.580
  3. 3Niger18.630
  4. 4Kenya13.930
  5. 5Kosovo13.190

Lowest

  1. 81Sloveniashared0.000
  2. 81Chinashared0.000
  3. 80Malaysia0.001
  4. 74Taiwanshared0.010
  5. 74Thailandshared0.010

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.335. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 52values changed, of 59 in both
  • 18 · 34rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 60 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 6 countries share 0.010. 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 82 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 (2021). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation?

Central African Republic, at 34.400, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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