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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 44.7200; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.4200. Against the 2021 compilation, 51 values changed (23 up, 28 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestMozambique

44.7200

Lowest5 countries share it

0.0000

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, 2022 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, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa44.7200consumption2022.08
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading39.7600consumption2022
3KenyaKENEastern Africa13.5800consumption2022.67
4NigeriaNGAWestern Africa12.9800consumption2022.71
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2022 reading12.7300consumption2022
6KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2022 reading5.6000income2022
7South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa5.1000consumption2022.85
8SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2022 reading4.0900consumption2022
9ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2022 reading3.6400income2022
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2022 reading2.2700consumption2022
11TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2022 reading2.2200consumption2022
12El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2022 reading1.9700income2022
13Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa1.8100consumption2022.61
14BrazilBRASouth America · 2022 reading1.7500income2022
15UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2022 reading1.6400income2022
16EcuadorECUSouth America · 2022 reading1.4400income2022
17PeruPERSouth America · 2022 reading1.4100income2022
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading1.3500consumption2022
19BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2022 reading1.1800income2022
20LebanonLBNWestern Asia1.0500consumption2022.8
21United StatesUSANorthern America · 2022 reading1.0400income2022
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2022 reading0.9900income2022
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2022 reading0.9700consumption2022
24SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2022 reading0.9000income2022
25ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2022 reading0.8700income2022

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique44.7200
  2. 2Zambia39.7600
  3. 3Kenya13.5800
  4. 4Nigeria12.9800
  5. 5Chad12.7300

Lowest

  1. 69Thailandshared0.0000
  2. 69Sloveniashared0.0000
  3. 69Moldovashared0.0000
  4. 69Czechiashared0.0000
  5. 69Chinashared0.0000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.4200. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 56 in both
  • 23 · 28rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kosovo13.1900 → 5.6000−7.5900
  • Brazil2.9000 → 1.7500−1.1500
  • Colombia4.4100 → 3.6400−0.7700
  • Georgia2.8900 → 2.2700−0.6200
  • Kenya13.9300 → 13.5800−0.3500
+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

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 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • 60 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 5 countries share 0.0000. 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 73 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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    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download poverty-gap-2022-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 (2022). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2022

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation?

Mozambique, at 44.7200, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2022 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, 2022 compilation the newest?

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

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