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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2005; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation covers 81 countries. Niger is highest, at 98.06; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.14. The middle country reads 39.15. Against the 2004 compilation, 58 values changed (20 up, 38 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2005

HighestNiger

98.06

LowestLuxembourg

0.14

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 $8.30 a Day, 2005 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 81 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa · 2005 reading98.06consumption2005
2UgandaUGAEastern Africa95.81consumption2005.33
3IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2005 reading94.59consumption2005
4RwandaRWAEastern Africa94.37consumption2005.75
5PakistanPAKSouthern Asia94.14consumption2005.5
6GhanaGHAWestern Africa94.12consumption2005.67
7SenegalSENWestern Africa93.38consumption2005.8
8MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2005 reading93.13consumption2005
9Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia92.55consumption2005.5
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2005 reading91.22consumption2005
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2005 reading90.02consumption2005
12Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa · 2005 reading88.94consumption2005
13KenyaKENEastern Africa87.47consumption2005.38
14YemenYEMWestern Asia85.71consumption2005.25
15ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2005 reading81.62consumption2005
16KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2005 reading78.10consumption2005
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2005 reading77.30consumption2005
18MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2005 reading76.22consumption2005
19South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa · 2005 reading74.93consumption2005
20ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2005 reading70.74consumption2005
21PeruPERSouth America · 2005 reading66.21income2005
22HondurasHNDCentral America · 2005 reading66.05income2005
23NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2005 reading65.44income2005
24MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2005 reading64.92consumption2005
25KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2005 reading64.72consumption2005

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger98.06
  2. 2Uganda95.81
  3. 3Indonesia94.59
  4. 4Rwanda94.37
  5. 5Pakistan94.14

Lowest

  1. 81Luxembourg0.14
  2. 80Cyprus0.15
  3. 78Icelandshared0.23
  4. 78Finlandshared0.23
  5. 77Ireland0.28

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 39.15. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since the 2004 compilation

What changed between the 2004 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 59 in both
  • 20 · 38rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bangladesh+ China+ Republic of the Congo+ Micronesia+ Gabon+ Ghana+ Iran+ Kenya+ Madagascar+ Montenegro+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Rwanda+ Senegal+ Solomon Islands+ Tunisia+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Kosovo+ Yemen+ South Africa− Australia− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Switzerland− DR Congo− Comoros− Egypt− Ethiopia− Croatia− India− Jamaica− Mauritania− Malawi− Thailand− Tajikistan− Vietnam− 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.

How values are stored
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2005, from 2005 to 2005.

  • 78 distinct values among 81

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.51. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 81 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2005). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2005

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation?

Niger, at 98.06, of the 81 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation cover?

81.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 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 $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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