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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2007; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

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, 2007 compilation covers 73 countries. Niger is highest, at 91.60; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.02. The middle country reads 2.84. Against the 2006 compilation, 55 values changed (14 up, 41 down), 14 countries joined, 23 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2007

HighestNiger

91.60

LowestLuxembourg

0.02

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 Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa91.60consumption2007.31
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading81.87consumption2007
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2007 reading79.50consumption2007
4TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2007 reading77.90consumption2007
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading65.99consumption2007
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia64.70consumption2007.5
7GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2007 reading63.00consumption2007
8LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia61.13consumption2007.23
9CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2007 reading53.37consumption2007
10TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2007 reading48.22consumption2007
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2007 reading45.84consumption2007
12GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2007 reading42.12consumption2007
13Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa40.93consumption2007.33
14HondurasHNDCentral America · 2007 reading32.18income2007
15PeruPERSouth America · 2007 reading27.96income2007
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2007 reading26.76consumption2007
17PanamaPANCentral America · 2007 reading19.29income2007
18BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2007 reading19.13income2007
19ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2007 reading18.92income2007
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2007 reading18.91income2007
21EcuadorECUSouth America · 2007 reading18.71income2007
22BrazilBRASouth America · 2007 reading18.20income2007
23Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2007 reading15.40income2007
24MongoliaMNGEastern Asia14.36consumption2007.5
25RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2007 reading14.25income2007

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger91.60
  2. 2Timor-Leste81.87
  3. 3Liberia79.50
  4. 4Tanzania77.90
  5. 5Indonesia65.99

Lowest

  1. 73Luxembourg0.02
  2. 72Cyprus0.03
  3. 71France0.05
  4. 70Netherlands0.06
  5. 69Slovenia0.08

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.84. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since the 2006 compilation

  • +14 / −23countries joined / left
  • 55values changed, of 59 in both
  • 14 · 41rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Cameroon+ Cabo Verde+ Guinea+ Laos+ Liberia+ Mongolia+ Niger+ Pakistan+ Tajikistan+ Timor-Leste+ Taiwan+ Tanzania− Burundi− Chile− Guatemala− Iran− Iraq− Jordan− Kiribati− South Korea− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mexico− North Macedonia− Mali− Mauritius− Malaysia− Philippines− Seychelles− Syria− Togo− Venezuela− Vietnam− Kosovo− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2007, from 2007 to 2007.

  • 69 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.10. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2007). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2007

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