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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2008; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation covers 79 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 81.13; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.85. Against the 2007 compilation, 56 values changed (18 up, 38 down), 21 countries joined, 15 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2008

HighestMozambique

81.13

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa81.13consumption2008.67
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2008 reading67.26consumption2008
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2008 reading46.98consumption2008
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading38.01consumption2008
5South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa37.01consumption2008.67
6ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2008 reading26.06consumption2008
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa22.08consumption2008.5
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2008 reading21.66consumption2008
9HondurasHNDCentral America · 2008 reading20.88income2008
10MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa19.24consumption2008.2
11VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading17.55consumption2008
12ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2008 reading16.25income2008
13PeruPERSouth America · 2008 reading15.81income2008
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2008 reading13.81consumption2008
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2008 reading12.63income2008
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2008 reading10.57income2008
17MexicoMEXCentral America · 2008 reading10.08income2008
18EcuadorECUSouth America · 2008 reading9.79income2008
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2008 reading9.12income2008
20PanamaPANCentral America · 2008 reading9.00income2008
21ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2008 reading7.91income2008
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2008 reading7.14income2008
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2008 reading6.05income2008
24FijiFJIMelanesia3.79consumption2008.5
25SamoaWSMPolynesia · 2008 reading3.74consumption2008

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique81.13
  2. 2Central African Republic67.26
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire46.98
  4. 4Indonesia38.01
  5. 5South Africa37.01

Lowest

  1. 78Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 78Luxembourgshared0.00
  3. 76Franceshared0.01
  4. 76Cyprusshared0.01
  5. 75Croatia0.03

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.85. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 compilation

What changed between the 2007 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −15countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 58 in both
  • 18 · 38rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2008, from 2008 to 2008.

  • 69 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.08. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 79 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

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

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation?

Mozambique, at 81.13, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2008 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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