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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989

1989, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

These are the World Bank’s line-up estimates of the share of people living on less than $3.00 a day: one figure for every country in every year, the numbers the Bank adds up into its regional and world poverty counts. Where a country ran no household survey in a year, the Bank estimates the figure from the surveys it did run.

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989 covers 169 countries. Equatorial Guinea is highest, at 99.66; 18 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 15.98. Against 1988, 142 values changed (60 up, 82 down), the same countries are covered.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 1989

HighestEquatorial Guinea

99.66

Lowest18 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 169 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa99.66extrapolationconsumption
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia93.23extrapolationconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa91.37extrapolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa89.50extrapolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa88.36extrapolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa87.78extrapolationconsumption
GuineaGINWestern Africa86.25extrapolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa85.60extrapolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa85.49extrapolationconsumption
ChinaCHNEastern Asia83.80extrapolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa81.95extrapolationconsumption
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia81.81interpolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa81.49extrapolationconsumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa80.65extrapolationconsumption
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia79.89interpolationconsumption
NepalNPLSouthern Asia77.83extrapolationincome
GhanaGHAWestern Africa77.76interpolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa77.66extrapolationconsumption
GambiaGMBWestern Africa76.63extrapolationconsumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa76.40extrapolationconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa75.88interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa73.90extrapolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa72.77surveyconsumption
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia71.72extrapolationconsumption
MalawiMWIEastern Africa71.18extrapolationconsumption

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Equatorial Guinea99.66
  2. Myanmar93.23
  3. Eswatini91.37
  4. Mali89.50
  5. Mozambique88.36

Lowest

  1. Taiwanshared0.00
  2. Sloveniashared0.00
  3. Slovakiashared0.00
  4. Romaniashared0.00
  5. Qatarshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.98. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 142values changed, of 169 in both
  • 60 · 82rose · fell
  • 27unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1989.

  • 148 distinct values among 169

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 18 countries share 0.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 169 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (1989). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/1989

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