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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2006; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation covers 82 countries. Burundi is highest, at 98.53; Cyprus is lowest, at 0.04. The middle country reads 29.20. Against the 2005 compilation, 56 values changed (11 up, 45 down), 23 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2006

HighestBurundi

98.53

LowestCyprus

0.04

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, 2006 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2006 reading98.53consumption2006
2MaliMLIWestern Africa95.27consumption2006.25
3IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading95.25consumption2006
4TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2006 reading94.81consumption2006
5ZambiaZMBEastern Africa93.31consumption2006.5
6KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2006 reading82.67consumption2006
7KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2006 reading81.94consumption2006
8VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading81.77consumption2006
9KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2006 reading79.65consumption2006
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2006 reading78.45consumption2006
11PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading72.54income2006
12Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia72.22consumption2006.5
13ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2006 reading66.80consumption2006
14MoroccoMARNorthern Africa65.13consumption2006.91
15HondurasHNDCentral America · 2006 reading60.76income2006
16PeruPERSouth America · 2006 reading60.60income2006
17El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2006 reading56.23income2006
18KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2006 reading55.67consumption2006
19ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2006 reading50.38income2006
20EcuadorECUSouth America · 2006 reading46.85income2006
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2006 reading46.14income2006
22MexicoMEXCentral America · 2006 reading45.94income2006
23BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2006 reading44.64income2006
24PanamaPANCentral America · 2006 reading44.49income2006
25BrazilBRASouth America · 2006 reading43.71income2006

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi98.53
  2. 2Mali95.27
  3. 3Indonesia95.25
  4. 4Togo94.81
  5. 5Zambia93.31

Lowest

  1. 82Cyprus0.04
  2. 81Luxembourg0.13
  3. 80Germany0.20
  4. 79France0.21
  5. 78Finland0.23

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 29.20. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since the 2005 compilation

What changed between the 2005 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −22countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 59 in both
  • 11 · 45rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bulgaria+ Switzerland+ Chile+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Jordan+ Kiribati+ South Korea+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ Mali+ Malta+ Mauritius+ Malaysia+ Philippines+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Togo+ Thailand+ Uruguay+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Albania− Azerbaijan− Bangladesh− China− Republic of the Congo− Colombia− Micronesia− Gabon− Ghana− Kenya− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Rwanda− Senegal− Solomon Islands− Tunisia− Taiwan− Uganda− Yemen− South Africa

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 2006, from 2006 to 2006.

  • 80 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.70. 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 82 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 (2006). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2006

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation?

Burundi, at 98.53, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 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, 2006 compilation the newest?

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

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