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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2016; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation covers 84 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 97.58; Cyprus is lowest, at 0.14. The middle country reads 13.73. Against the 2015 compilation, 64 values changed (24 up, 40 down), 19 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2016

HighestSouth Sudan

97.58

LowestCyprus

0.14

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, 2016 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa97.58consumption2016.5
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa96.52consumption2016.31
3RwandaRWAEastern Africa93.18consumption2016.77
4UgandaUGAEastern Africa92.86consumption2016.5
5LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2016 reading88.25consumption2016
6BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2016 reading85.73consumption2016
7GhanaGHAWestern Africa85.37consumption2016.75
8KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2016 reading83.70consumption2016
9EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa79.32consumption2016.17
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2016 reading77.53consumption2016
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2016 reading63.99consumption2016
12Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2016 reading56.62consumption2016
13HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading55.39income2016
14KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2016 reading53.42consumption2016
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2016 reading45.87consumption2016
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2016 reading44.94income2016
17MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2016 reading44.77consumption2016
18IranIRNSouthern Asia41.68consumption2016.23
19ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2016 reading41.44income2016
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2016 reading37.97consumption2016
21MexicoMEXCentral America · 2016 reading37.76income2016
22PeruPERSouth America · 2016 reading36.36income2016
23AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2016 reading32.87consumption2016
24VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2016 reading29.80consumption2016
25ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2016 reading29.74income2016

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan97.58
  2. 2Malawi96.52
  3. 3Rwanda93.18
  4. 4Uganda92.86
  5. 5Liberia88.25

Lowest

  1. 84Cyprus0.14
  2. 83Switzerland0.16
  3. 81Icelandshared0.20
  4. 81Germanyshared0.20
  5. 80Finland0.21

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 13.73. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since the 2015 compilation

What changed between the 2015 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −22countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 65 in both
  • 24 · 40rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− 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

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 2016, from 2016 to 2016.

  • 82 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.30. 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 84 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 (2016). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2016

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation?

South Sudan, at 97.58, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2016 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, 2016 compilation the newest?

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

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