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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2016

2016, 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, 2016 covers 171 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 80.84; 10 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 3.80. Against 2015, 162 values changed (52 up, 110 down), the same countries are covered.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 2016

HighestDR Congo

80.84

Lowest10 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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa80.84interpolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa75.72interpolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa75.48interpolationconsumption
South SudanSSDEastern Africa75.15interpolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa72.12interpolationconsumption
MalawiMWIEastern Africa71.90interpolationconsumption
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa68.32interpolationconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa67.08interpolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa64.50interpolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa63.49interpolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa61.09interpolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa59.52interpolationconsumption
YemenYEMWestern Asia56.66extrapolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa55.08interpolationconsumption
TogoTGOWestern Africa54.76interpolationconsumption
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa53.35interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa51.12interpolationconsumption
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia45.02extrapolationconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa44.68interpolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa44.24interpolationconsumption
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa43.62interpolationconsumption
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa43.51interpolationconsumption
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia43.10extrapolationconsumption
ChadTCDMiddle Africa42.88interpolationconsumption
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa42.58interpolationconsumption

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. DR Congo80.84
  2. Burundi75.72
  3. Mozambique75.48
  4. South Sudan75.15
  5. Central African Republic72.12

Lowest

  1. Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.00
  2. Sloveniashared0.00
  3. Romaniashared0.00
  4. Qatarshared0.00
  5. Icelandshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.80. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 162values changed, of 171 in both
  • 52 · 110rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

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 2016.

  • 146 distinct values among 171

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 10 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 (2016). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/2016

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