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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Madagascar is highest, at 96.57; Cyprus is lowest, at 0.09. The middle country reads 14.17. Against the 2020 compilation, 56 values changed (17 up, 39 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestMadagascar

96.57

LowestCyprus

0.09

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, 2021 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1MadagascarMDGEastern Africa96.57consumption2021.75
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading96.07consumption2021
3NigerNERWestern Africa96.06consumption2021.5
4EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading93.48consumption2021
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa91.42consumption2021.75
6KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading91.33consumption2021
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa90.38consumption2021.67
8MaliMLIWestern Africa88.64consumption2021.57
9TogoTGOWestern Africa86.98consumption2021.63
10BeninBENWestern Africa86.55consumption2021.75
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa80.87consumption2021.75
12SenegalSENWestern Africa78.59consumption2021.71
13KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2021 reading76.88consumption2021
14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa73.98consumption2021.67
15IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading68.52consumption2021
16TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2021 reading64.86consumption2021
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2021 reading64.63consumption2021
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading62.26income2021
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa58.46consumption2021.77
20ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2021 reading56.99consumption2021
21KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading47.04income2021
22ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading43.96income2021
23IranIRNSouthern Asia42.77consumption2021.23
24PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading39.47income2021
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2021 reading38.15income2021

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Madagascar96.57
  2. 2Central African Republic96.07
  3. 3Niger96.06
  4. 4Ethiopia93.48
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau91.42

Lowest

  1. 82Cyprus0.09
  2. 81Slovenia0.14
  3. 80Switzerland0.15
  4. 79Finland0.16
  5. 78Belgium0.25

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.17. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 59 in both
  • 17 · 39rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 81 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.28. 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 82 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 (2021). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($8.30 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation?

Madagascar, at 96.57, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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