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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation

Name: Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 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, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 92.51; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 1.10. Against the 2019 compilation, 60 values changed (34 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

92.51

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

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

71countries
1measure
2020compiled · readings from many years
63distinct 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, 2020 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, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa · 2020 reading	92.51	consumption	2020
2	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	87.18	consumption	2020.15
3	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa · 2020 reading	65.65	consumption	2020
4	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	40.24	consumption	2020.08
5	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia · 2020 reading	31.85	consumption	2020
6	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia · 2020 reading	26.37	consumption	2020
7	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa · 2020 reading	25.89	consumption	2020
8	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia · 2020 reading	25.22	consumption	2020
9	Colombia`COL`South America · 2020 reading	23.81	income	2020
10	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	21.57	income	2020
11	Peru`PER`South America · 2020 reading	18.89	income	2020
12	Ecuador`ECU`South America · 2020 reading	13.46	income	2020
13	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	12.24	consumption	2020.23
14	Mexico`MEX`Central America · 2020 reading	9.58	income	2020
15	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia · 2020 reading	6.72	consumption	2020
16	Bolivia`BOL`South America · 2020 reading	6.56	income	2020
17	Paraguay`PRY`South America · 2020 reading	6.50	income	2020
18	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America · 2020 reading	6.41	income	2020
19	Brazil`BRA`South America · 2020 reading	5.39	income	2020
20	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	4.92	income	2020
21	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean · 2020 reading	4.32	income	2020
22	Argentina`ARG`South America · 2020 reading	4.23	income	2020
23	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	4.05	income	2020
24	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia · 2020 reading	3.65	consumption	2020
25	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	3.19	income	2020
26	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia · 2020 reading	3.04	income	2020
27	Chile`CHL`South America · 2020 reading	2.73	income	2020
28	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	2.12	consumption	2020
29	China`CHN`Eastern Asia · 2020 reading	1.65	consumption	2020
30	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia · 2020 reading	1.60	income	2020
31	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	1.59	income	2020
32	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	1.52	income	2020
33	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	1.50	income	2020
34	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	1.21	income	2020
=35	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand · 2020 reading	1.10	income	2020
=35	Israel`ISR`Western Asia · 2020 reading	1.10	income	2020
37	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	1.03	income	2020
38	Austria`AUT`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.89	income	2020
39	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.84	income	2020
40	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	0.80	income	2020
=41	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.70	income	2020
=41	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	0.70	income	2020
43	Uruguay`URY`South America · 2020 reading	0.66	income	2020
44	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia · 2020 reading	0.63	consumption	2020
45	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.60	income	2020
=46	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.52	income	2020
=46	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.52	income	2020
48	United States`USA`Northern America · 2020 reading	0.50	income	2020
49	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.48	income	2020
50	Germany`DEU`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.40	income	2020
51	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia · 2020 reading	0.39	consumption	2020
52	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.37	income	2020
53	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.33	income	2020
54	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.27	income	2020
55	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.24	income	2020
56	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.23	consumption	2020
57	France`FRA`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.21	income	2020
=58	Canada`CAN`Northern America · 2020 reading	0.20	income	2020
=58	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.20	income	2020
=58	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia · 2020 reading	0.20	income	2020
=58	Taiwan`TWN`Eastern Asia · 2020 reading	0.20	income	2020
62	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.19	consumption	2020
63	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.12	income	2020
64	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.11	income	2020
=65	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.07	consumption	2020
=65	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.07	income	2020
67	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia · 2020 reading	0.06	income	2020
68	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe · 2020 reading	0.04	income	2020
69	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe · 2020 reading	0.02	income	2020
=70	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe · 2020 reading	0.00	income	2020
=70	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe · 2020 reading	0.00	income	2020

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1DR Congo92.51
2Burundi87.18
3Kenya65.65
4Gambia40.24
5Kyrgyzstan31.85

Lowest

70Sloveniashared0.00
70Luxembourgshared0.00
69Czechia0.02
68Finland0.04
67Cyprus0.06

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.10. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

+9 / −17countries joined / left
60values changed, of 62 in both
34 · 26rose · fell
2unchanged

Rose most

Kyrgyzstan23.22 → 31.85+8.63
Peru10.71 → 18.89+8.18
Kosovo15.70 → 21.57+5.87
Colombia18.50 → 23.81+5.31
Ecuador9.51 → 13.46+3.95

Fell most

Brazil10.91 → 5.39−5.52
Armenia9.83 → 6.72−3.11
Indonesia28.25 → 26.37−1.88
Bulgaria2.98 → 1.52−1.46
China3.03 → 1.65−1.38

+ Australia

+ Burundi

+ Chile

+ DR Congo

+ Comoros

+ Gambia

+ Kenya

+ Mexico

+ Vietnam

− Egypt

− Fiji

− Honduras

− Iceland

− Kiribati

− Sri Lanka

− Maldives

− Marshall Islands

− North Macedonia

− Mozambique

− Mauritania

− Malawi

− Panama

− El Salvador

− Uganda

− Vanuatu

− Zimbabwe

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

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Each country’s newest reading as of 2020, from 2020 to 2020.
63 distinct values among 71
Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 4 countries share 0.20. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Every one of the 71 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2020). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2020

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