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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2008

2008, 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, 2008 covers 172 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 88.68; 9 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 8.15. Against 2007, 160 values changed (38 up, 122 down), 1 country joined.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 2008

HighestUzbekistan

88.68

Lowest9 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, 2008, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 172 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia88.68extrapolationconsumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa88.58interpolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa81.67interpolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa80.61interpolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa75.28interpolationconsumption
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa73.86interpolationconsumption
MalawiMWIEastern Africa73.48interpolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa72.46interpolationconsumption
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa71.92interpolationconsumption
TogoTGOWestern Africa68.28interpolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa68.24interpolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa67.26surveyconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa66.44interpolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa65.87interpolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa64.60interpolationconsumption
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa63.21interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa60.04interpolationconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa58.87interpolationconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa57.45interpolationconsumption
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa56.54interpolationconsumption
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia56.48interpolationconsumption
GhanaGHAWestern Africa56.14interpolationconsumption
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia55.96interpolationconsumption
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia55.20interpolationconsumption
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa54.13interpolationconsumption

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Uzbekistan88.68
  2. DR Congo88.58
  3. Mozambique81.67
  4. Burundi80.61
  5. Niger75.28

Lowest

  1. Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.00
  2. Syriashared0.00
  3. Sloveniashared0.00
  4. Slovakiashared0.00
  5. Qatarshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.15. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 160values changed, of 171 in both
  • 38 · 122rose · fell
  • 11unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ South Sudan

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 2008.

  • 149 distinct values among 172

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 9 countries share 0.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 172 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (2008). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/2008

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