Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2012 compilation

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Population below $8.30 a day, 2021 PPP (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	97.85	consumption	2012.4
2	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	94.52	consumption	2012.73
3	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	92.40	consumption	2012.45
4	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	90.73	consumption	2012.79
5	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	88.36	consumption	2012.5
6	HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading	88.19	consumption	2012
7	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	86.34	consumption	2012.8
8	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2012 reading	85.22	consumption	2012
9	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	84.75	consumption	2012
10	GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2012 reading	83.85	consumption	2012
11	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	82.50	consumption	2012.25
12	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading	77.50	consumption	2012
13	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2012 reading	72.06	consumption	2012
14	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	69.91	income	2012
15	NauruNRUMicronesia	68.52	consumption	2012.69
16	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	64.89	consumption	2012.5
17	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading	61.00	income	2012
18	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	60.61	consumption	2012.49
19	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2012 reading	59.61	consumption	2012
20	KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2012 reading	59.45	consumption	2012
21	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading	57.38	consumption	2012
22	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2012 reading	53.48	income	2012
23	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2012 reading	48.53	consumption	2012
24	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading	46.30	income	2012
25	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2012 reading	45.90	consumption	2012

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 24.94. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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.

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