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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2015; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation covers 87 countries. Togo is highest, at 94.30; Switzerland is lowest, at 0.06. The middle country reads 19.04. Against the 2014 compilation, 63 values changed (21 up, 42 down), 22 countries joined, 19 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2015

HighestTogo

94.30

LowestSwitzerland

0.06

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, 2015 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2015 reading94.30consumption2015
2BeninBENWestern Africa · 2015 reading93.20consumption2015
3ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2015 reading91.99consumption2015
4EthiopiaETHEastern Africa89.87consumption2015.5
5Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2015 reading89.83consumption2015
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia87.39consumption2015.5
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa87.22consumption2015.5
8KenyaKENEastern Africa85.77consumption2015.67
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2015 reading85.13consumption2015
10MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading82.54consumption2015
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading81.94consumption2015
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa78.73consumption2015.31
13TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2015 reading74.07consumption2015
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading65.85income2015
15Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa · 2015 reading65.00consumption2015
16BotswanaBWASouthern Africa63.17consumption2015.85
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2015 reading63.05consumption2015
18NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa61.10consumption2015.27
19HondurasHNDCentral America · 2015 reading57.98income2015
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa · 2015 reading56.79consumption2015
21TongaTONPolynesia · 2015 reading55.31consumption2015
22KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2015 reading54.14consumption2015
23ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2015 reading50.67consumption2015
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2015 reading46.58income2015
25ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2015 reading41.71consumption2015

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Togo94.30
  2. 2Benin93.20
  3. 3Zambia91.99
  4. 4Ethiopia89.87
  5. 5Côte d’Ivoire89.83

Lowest

  1. 87Switzerland0.06
  2. 86Iceland0.19
  3. 85Germany0.20
  4. 84Finland0.22
  5. 82Cyprusshared0.23

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 19.04. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since the 2014 compilation

What changed between the 2014 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −19countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 65 in both
  • 21 · 42rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Botswana+ Chile+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cabo Verde+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Zambia− Argentina− Australia− Burkina Faso− Cameroon− Comoros− Guatemala− South Korea− Liberia− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Niger− Nicaragua− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Vietnam− 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 2015, from 2015 to 2015.

  • 85 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.40. 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 87 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 (2015). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2015

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation?

Togo, at 94.30, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2015 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, 2015 compilation the newest?

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

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