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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2015

2015, 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, 2015 covers 171 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 78.97; 7 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 4.21. Against 2014, 159 values changed (60 up, 99 down), 1 left.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 2015

HighestDR Congo

78.97

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, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 171 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2015: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa78.97interpolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa76.45interpolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa74.46interpolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa72.76interpolationconsumption
MalawiMWIEastern Africa71.22interpolationconsumption
South SudanSSDEastern Africa69.79interpolationconsumption
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa67.90surveyconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa67.38interpolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa65.82surveyconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa63.78interpolationconsumption
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa62.68interpolationconsumption
TogoTGOWestern Africa61.70surveyconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa61.13interpolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa58.24interpolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa58.10interpolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa54.33interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa51.14interpolationconsumption
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa51.02interpolationconsumption
YemenYEMWestern Asia50.07extrapolationconsumption
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa46.60surveyconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa46.50interpolationconsumption
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia46.02extrapolationconsumption
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa44.85interpolationconsumption
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia43.82extrapolationconsumption
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia42.04extrapolationconsumption

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. DR Congo78.97
  2. Burundi76.45
  3. Mozambique74.46
  4. Central African Republic72.76
  5. Malawi71.22

Lowest

  1. Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.00
  2. Sloveniashared0.00
  3. Qatarshared0.00
  4. Algeriashared0.00
  5. Belarusshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 171 in both
  • 60 · 99rose · fell
  • 12unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Venezuela

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 2015.

  • 152 distinct values among 171

    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 171 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (2015). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/2015

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