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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1997

1997, 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, 1997 covers 170 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 93.04; 7 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 18.10. Against 1996, 163 values changed (55 up, 108 down), the same countries are covered.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 1997

HighestDR Congo

93.04

Lowest7 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, 1997, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 170 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1997: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa93.04extrapolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa88.65interpolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa88.52interpolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa87.66interpolationconsumption
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia87.25extrapolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa86.55interpolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa85.66extrapolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa85.44interpolationconsumption
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia82.48extrapolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa82.42interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa82.32interpolationconsumption
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa80.89extrapolationconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa80.68surveyconsumption
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia80.42extrapolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa79.02interpolationconsumption
GambiaGMBWestern Africa78.03extrapolationconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa77.30interpolationconsumption
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa76.54extrapolationconsumption
HaitiHTICaribbean74.20extrapolationincome
BeninBENWestern Africa74.04extrapolationconsumption
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa72.86extrapolationconsumption
ChadTCDMiddle Africa72.48extrapolationconsumption
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia72.42interpolationconsumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa71.03interpolationconsumption
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa70.76interpolationconsumption

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. DR Congo93.04
  2. Burundi88.65
  3. Niger88.52
  4. Mozambique87.66
  5. Myanmar87.25

Lowest

  1. Taiwanshared0.00
  2. Qatarshared0.00
  3. Luxembourgshared0.00
  4. Jordanshared0.00
  5. Estoniashared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 18.10. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 170 in both
  • 55 · 108rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

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 1997.

  • 157 distinct values among 170

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 7 countries share 0.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 170 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (1997). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/1997

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