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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Malawi is highest, at 97.07; Slovenia is lowest, at 0.14. The middle country reads 11.23. Against the 2018 compilation, 66 values changed (27 up, 39 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestMalawi

97.07

LowestSlovenia

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, 2019 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MalawiMWIEastern Africa97.07consumption2019.31
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa96.54consumption2019.92
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa93.60consumption2019.64
4ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading86.24consumption2019
5VanuatuVUTMelanesia81.30consumption2019.21
6KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2019 reading78.88consumption2019
7KiribatiKIRMicronesia74.88consumption2019.27
8MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa71.16consumption2019.6
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2019 reading70.40consumption2019
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2019 reading62.45consumption2019
11EgyptEGYNorthern Africa62.16consumption2019.43
12FijiFJIMelanesia61.32consumption2019.15
13ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2019 reading57.11consumption2019
14HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading54.50income2019
15Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2019 reading53.32consumption2019
16IranIRNSouthern Asia47.42consumption2019.23
17ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading41.77income2019
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading38.25income2019
19Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia36.54consumption2019.5
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2019 reading34.73income2019
21PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading33.59income2019
22EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading30.63income2019
23ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2019 reading28.28consumption2019
24BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading28.03income2019
25ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2019 reading24.95income2019

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Malawi97.07
  2. 2Mozambique96.54
  3. 3Uganda93.60
  4. 4Zimbabwe86.24
  5. 5Vanuatu81.30

Lowest

  1. 79Slovenia0.14
  2. 78Finland0.17
  3. 76Irelandshared0.22
  4. 76Switzerlandshared0.22
  5. 75Belgium0.23

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 11.23. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 67 in both
  • 27 · 39rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− 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

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 76 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.90. 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 79 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 (2019). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2019

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation?

Malawi, at 97.07, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2019 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, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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