Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2008 compilation

Showing 25 of 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2008 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Population below $8.30 a day, 2021 PPP (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	97.47	consumption	2008.67
2	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2008 reading	92.43	consumption	2008
3	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading	92.39	consumption	2008
4	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2008 reading	88.23	consumption	2008
5	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2008 reading	80.55	consumption	2008
6	VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading	78.97	consumption	2008
7	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2008 reading	76.57	consumption	2008
8	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	74.10	consumption	2008.2
9	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2008 reading	72.82	consumption	2008
10	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	71.85	consumption	2008.24
11	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	71.72	consumption	2008.5
12	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	70.53	consumption	2008.67
13	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2008 reading	56.26	consumption	2008
14	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2008 reading	55.96	income	2008
15	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2008 reading	55.63	income	2008
16	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2008 reading	53.18	income	2008
17	PeruPERSouth America · 2008 reading	50.90	income	2008
18	SamoaWSMPolynesia · 2008 reading	49.62	consumption	2008
19	FijiFJIMelanesia	48.85	consumption	2008.5
20	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2008 reading	46.01	income	2008
21	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2008 reading	44.23	income	2008
22	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2008 reading	43.86	income	2008
23	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2008 reading	43.44	consumption	2008
24	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2008 reading	43.39	income	2008
25	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2008 reading	42.31	consumption	2008

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.59. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +21 / −15countries joined / left
• 57values changed, of 58 in both
• 19 · 38rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

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.

• .csv

  For a spreadsheet or code

  79 rows · 3.9 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

  Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

  Download poverty-headcount-830-2008-nations-inquiry.csv
• ↗

  The publisher’s original

  World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

  pip

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