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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2011; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation covers 82 countries. Niger is highest, at 97.50; Switzerland is lowest, at 0.09. The middle country reads 16.49. Against the 2010 compilation, 63 values changed (23 up, 40 down), 18 countries joined, 23 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2011

HighestNiger

97.50

LowestSwitzerland

0.09

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, 2011 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, 2011 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa · 2011 reading97.50consumption2011
2Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2011 reading94.32consumption2011
3BeninBENWestern Africa94.14consumption2011.33
4TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2011 reading93.63consumption2011
5TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa92.85consumption2011.77
6IndiaINDSouthern Asia92.48consumption2011.5
7SenegalSENWestern Africa91.98consumption2011.29
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia91.82consumption2011.5
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2011 reading88.49consumption2011
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2011 reading85.82consumption2011
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2011 reading83.52consumption2011
12ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2011 reading83.24consumption2011
13Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa82.45consumption2011.67
14GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2011 reading75.64consumption2011
15KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2011 reading72.23consumption2011
16ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2011 reading63.03consumption2011
17ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2011 reading62.07consumption2011
18HondurasHNDCentral America · 2011 reading56.21income2011
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2011 reading56.03income2011
20ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2011 reading46.98income2011
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2011 reading46.56consumption2011
22PeruPERSouth America · 2011 reading42.44income2011
23AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa41.83consumption2011.17
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2011 reading40.19income2011
25North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2011 reading39.48income2011

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger97.50
  2. 2Sierra Leone94.32
  3. 3Benin94.14
  4. 4Togo93.63
  5. 5Tanzania92.85

Lowest

  1. 82Switzerland0.09
  2. 81Finland0.14
  3. 80Germany0.20
  4. 79Luxembourg0.21
  5. 78France0.23

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.49. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since the 2010 compilation

What changed between the 2010 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −23countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 64 in both
  • 23 · 40rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Brazil+ Chile+ Republic of the Congo+ Algeria+ India+ Iran+ Lebanon+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Guinea-Bissau− Jordan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mexico− Malawi− Nigeria− Nepal− Rwanda− Serbia− São Tomé and Príncipe− Tunisia− Tuvalu− Taiwan− Vietnam− Vanuatu− South Africa− 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 2011, from 2011 to 2011.

  • 79 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 (2011). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2011

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation?

Niger, at 97.50, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 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, 2011 compilation the newest?

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

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