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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

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.

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. A higher value is the worse result.

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

What changed between the 2006 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +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. 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.

The site’s method
  • 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.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

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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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation?

Niger, at 91.60, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 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 Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2007 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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