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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; 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, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 72.30; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.02. The middle country reads 1.34. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (14 up, 37 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

72.30

Lowest2 countries share it

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, 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 Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa72.30consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa62.21consumption2023.77
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading26.61income2023
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading21.94consumption2023
5TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading18.14consumption2023
6GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading17.62income2023
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading16.87income2023
8KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading16.36consumption2023
9IndiaINDSouthern Asia16.12consumption2023.58
10ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading15.20income2023
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading14.02consumption2023
12PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading11.70income2023
13EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading9.96income2023
14El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading8.60income2023
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2023 reading8.42consumption2023
16IranIRNSouthern Asia7.53consumption2023.23
17BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading7.44income2023
18UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading7.27income2023
19PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading7.20income2023
20PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading6.07consumption2023
21ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading5.79income2023
22KiribatiKIRMicronesia5.69consumption2023.42
23BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading5.11income2023
24Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading3.37income2023
25ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2023 reading3.11income2023

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda72.30
  2. 2Rwanda62.21
  3. 3Honduras26.61
  4. 4Indonesia21.94
  5. 5Tajikistan18.14

Lowest

  1. 59Sloveniashared0.02
  2. 59Cyprusshared0.02
  3. 58Czechia0.05
  4. 56Irelandshared0.08
  5. 56Franceshared0.08

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.34. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 14 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 55 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.57. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2023). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2023

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