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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Niger is highest, at 94.73; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.14. The middle country reads 16.07. Against the 2017 compilation, 65 values changed (25 up, 40 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestNiger

94.73

Lowest2 countries share it

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, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa94.73consumption2018.57
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa91.51consumption2017.92
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2018 reading91.49consumption2018
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa90.08consumption2018.5
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa89.49consumption2018.43
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa89.48consumption2018.5
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa88.67consumption2018.75
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia88.36consumption2018.5
9BeninBENWestern Africa88.08consumption2018.5
10MaliMLIWestern Africa84.53consumption2018.57
11TogoTGOWestern Africa84.11consumption2018.43
12KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2018 reading80.32consumption2018
13AngolaAGOMiddle Africa80.00consumption2018.17
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa78.96consumption2018.5
15SenegalSENWestern Africa78.19consumption2018.5
16GuineaGINWestern Africa76.62consumption2018.5
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia75.26consumption2018.42
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading71.22consumption2018
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2018 reading62.02consumption2018
20PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading60.20income2018
21HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading56.13income2018
22KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading54.72income2018
23ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2018 reading52.76consumption2018
24IranIRNSouthern Asia42.13consumption2018.23
25MongoliaMNGEastern Asia · 2018 reading41.16consumption2018

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger94.73
  2. 2Tanzania91.51
  3. 3Sierra Leone91.49
  4. 4Chad90.08
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau89.49

Lowest

  1. 93Irelandshared0.14
  2. 93Franceshared0.14
  3. 92Slovenia0.18
  4. 91Switzerland0.19
  5. 89Finlandshared0.21

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.07. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 67 in both
  • 25 · 40rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− 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.

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 88 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 3.30. 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 94 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 (2018). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2018

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation?

Niger, at 94.73, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2018 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, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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