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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2012

2012, 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, 2012 covers 172 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 83.94; 8 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 5.57. Against 2011, 157 values changed (49 up, 108 down), the same countries are covered.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 2012

HighestUzbekistan

83.94

Lowest8 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, 2012, 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, 2012: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia83.94extrapolationconsumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa80.66interpolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa80.34interpolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa76.44interpolationconsumption
MalawiMWIEastern Africa73.49interpolationconsumption
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa72.38interpolationconsumption
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa69.06interpolationconsumption
South SudanSSDEastern Africa68.62interpolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa67.94interpolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa67.64interpolationconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa66.99interpolationconsumption
TogoTGOWestern Africa64.48interpolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa64.15interpolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa61.43interpolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa61.33interpolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa57.84interpolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa57.05interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa51.62interpolationconsumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa51.47interpolationconsumption
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia50.99extrapolationconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa50.92interpolationconsumption
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa50.59interpolationconsumption
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa48.68interpolationconsumption
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia45.78interpolationconsumption
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa44.24interpolationconsumption

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Uzbekistan83.94
  2. DR Congo80.66
  3. Burundi80.34
  4. Mozambique76.44
  5. Malawi73.49

Lowest

  1. Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.00
  2. Qatarshared0.00
  3. Algeriashared0.00
  4. Denmarkshared0.00
  5. Cyprusshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.57. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 157values changed, of 172 in both
  • 49 · 108rose · fell
  • 15unchanged

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 2012.

  • 154 distinct values among 172

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 8 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 (2012). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/2012

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