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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 compilation

Name: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 compilation
Creator: World Bank Group
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This is the share of a country’s people living on less than $4.20 a day at 2021 purchasing power parities — the World Bank’s poverty line for lower-middle-income countries, between its $3.00 extreme-poverty line and its $8.30 upper-middle-income line.

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 compilation covers 68 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 97.17; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 22.94.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2002

HighestUzbekistan

97.17

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

68countries
1measure
2002compiled · readings from many years
62distinct values2 decimals, as published
Sep 29, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 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 Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia · 2002 reading	97.17	consumption	2002
2	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	93.27	consumption	2002.5
3	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	88.02	consumption	2002.36
4	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	85.18	consumption	2002.75
5	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa · 2002 reading	84.31	consumption	2002
6	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	81.94	consumption	2002.83
7	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2002 reading	79.06	consumption	2002
8	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	73.07	consumption	2002
9	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	68.47	consumption	2002.25
10	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	68.12	consumption	2002.25
11	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	64.99	consumption	2002
12	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa · 2002 reading	64.68	consumption	2002
13	China`CHN`Eastern Asia · 2002 reading	63.67	consumption	2002
14	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa · 2002 reading	51.59	consumption	2002
15	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	49.18	consumption	2002.53
16	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2002 reading	43.73	consumption	2002
17	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia · 2002 reading	42.50	consumption	2002
18	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	40.49	consumption	2002.5
19	Honduras`HND`Central America · 2002 reading	40.39	income	2002
20	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2002 reading	39.66	consumption	2002
21	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	38.35	consumption	2002
22	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	36.99	consumption	2002.15
23	Peru`PER`South America · 2002 reading	36.30	income	2002
24	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2002 reading	34.16	consumption	2002
25	Venezuela`VEN`South America · 2002 reading	34.03	income	2002
26	Colombia`COL`South America · 2002 reading	34.02	income	2002
27	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2002 reading	31.97	income	2002
28	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2002 reading	30.37	income	2002
29	El Salvador`SLV`Central America · 2002 reading	29.56	income	2002
30	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	26.69	consumption	2002
31	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2002 reading	25.54	income	2002
32	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2002 reading	25.40	income	2002
33	Panama`PAN`Central America · 2002 reading	25.33	income	2002
34	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2002 reading	23.23	income	2002
35	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	22.65	consumption	2002
36	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	20.03	consumption	2002
37	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2002 reading	17.74	consumption	2002
38	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2002 reading	16.14	consumption	2002
39	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2002 reading	15.63	income	2002
40	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	15.06	consumption	2002
41	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia · 2002 reading	14.96	consumption	2002
42	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	14.86	consumption	2002.5
43	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean · 2002 reading	14.79	consumption	2002
44	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2002 reading	11.38	income	2002
45	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	7.47	consumption	2002
46	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	7.23	consumption	2002
47	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	6.33	consumption	2002
48	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	5.40	consumption	2002
49	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	4.16	consumption	2002
50	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	4.15	consumption	2002.5
51	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia · 2002 reading	2.49	consumption	2002
52	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	2.08	consumption	2002
53	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2002 reading	2.00	income	2002
54	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	1.90	income	2002
55	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	1.24	consumption	2002
56	United States`USA`Northern America · 2002 reading	1.10	income	2002
=57	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	0.60	income	2002
=57	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	0.60	income	2002
59	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	0.42	consumption	2002
=60	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2002 reading	0.40	income	2002
=60	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	0.40	income	2002
62	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2002 reading	0.13	consumption	2002
=63	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2002 reading	0.10	income	2002
=63	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2002 reading	0.10	income	2002
=63	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2002 reading	0.10	income	2002
=63	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2002 reading	0.10	income	2002
=67	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2002 reading	0.00	income	2002
=67	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2002 reading	0.00	income	2002

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Uzbekistan97.17
2Mozambique93.27
3Uganda88.02
4Lesotho85.18
5Guinea-Bissau84.31

Lowest

67Luxembourgshared0.00
67Czechiashared0.00
63Swedenshared0.10
63Franceshared0.10
63Germanyshared0.10

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 22.94. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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Each country’s newest reading as of 2002, from 2002 to 2002.
62 distinct values among 68
Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 4 countries share 0.10. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Every one of the 68 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2002). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2002 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2002

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