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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 19.950; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 0.345. Against the 2022 compilation, 48 values changed (18 up, 30 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

19.950

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa19.950consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa10.200consumption2023.77
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading6.950income2023
4GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading3.440income2023
5ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading3.430income2023
=6El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading1.740income2023
=6PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading1.740income2023
8UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading1.590income2023
9TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading1.560consumption2023
10EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading1.470income2023
11BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading1.340income2023
12GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading1.300consumption2023
13IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading1.120consumption2023
14PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading1.090income2023
=15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading0.950income2023
=15United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading0.950income2023
17BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading0.760income2023
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2023 reading0.710income2023
19ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2023 reading0.660income2023
20ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading0.620income2023
=21SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2023 reading0.550income2023
=21SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2023 reading0.550income2023
23IranIRNSouthern Asia0.490consumption2023.23
=24Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading0.480income2023
=24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2023 reading0.480income2023

02In Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda19.950
  2. 2Rwanda10.200
  3. 3Honduras6.950
  4. 4Guatemala3.440
  5. 5Colombia3.430

Lowest

  1. 59Sloveniashared0.000
  2. 59Czechiashared0.000
  3. 58Thailand0.001
  4. 57Cyprus0.010
  5. 56Moldova0.020

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.345. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 48values changed, of 51 in both
  • 18 · 30rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 47 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 7 decimals. 3 countries share 0.130. 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 60 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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    60 rows · 3.1 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download poverty-gap-2023-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 (2023). Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-gap/2023

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty gap ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation?

Uganda, at 19.950, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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