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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of a country’s people living on less than $8.30 a day at 2021 purchasing power parities — the World Bank’s upper-middle-income poverty line. It exists because the $3.00 extreme-poverty line reads near zero across most of the middle-income world and so says very little about it.

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 93.58; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.07. The middle country reads 7.82. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (13 up, 38 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

93.58

Lowest2 countries share it

0.07

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa93.58consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa89.79consumption2023.77
3IndiaINDSouthern Asia79.98consumption2023.58
4KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading72.09consumption2023
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading69.65consumption2023
6PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading58.74income2023
7ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2023 reading56.94consumption2023
8TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading55.68consumption2023
9HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading53.35income2023
10KiribatiKIRMicronesia52.02consumption2023.42
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading49.07consumption2023
12GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading47.32income2023
13ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading39.06income2023
14PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading38.28income2023
15IranIRNSouthern Asia36.05consumption2023.23
16EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading30.82income2023
17El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading29.94income2023
18PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading28.58consumption2023
19IraqIRQWestern Asia · 2023 reading27.98consumption2023
20UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading24.63income2023
21BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading23.30income2023
22ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading22.80income2023
23MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2023 reading20.44consumption2023
24PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading19.82income2023
25Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading16.88income2023

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda93.58
  2. 2Rwanda89.79
  3. 3India79.98
  4. 4Kyrgyzstan72.09
  5. 5Indonesia69.65

Lowest

  1. 59Sloveniashared0.07
  2. 59Cyprusshared0.07
  3. 58Luxembourg0.21
  4. 56Irelandshared0.26
  5. 56Belgiumshared0.26

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 7.82. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 13 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− 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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 58 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.26. 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 60 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.

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World Bank Group (2023). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830/2023

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