Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	78.90	consumption	2012.4
2	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	67.32	consumption	2012.73
3	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	56.16	consumption	2012.45
4	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	41.77	consumption	2012.8
5	HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading	40.41	consumption	2012
6	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	40.30	consumption	2012.79
7	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	37.44	consumption	2012.5
8	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	26.58	consumption	2012
9	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading	26.38	consumption	2012
10	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading	23.97	income	2012
11	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	21.71	consumption	2012.25
12	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	21.35	income	2012
13	GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2012 reading	21.26	consumption	2012
14	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2012 reading	18.78	consumption	2012
15	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading	12.88	consumption	2012
16	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading	12.73	income	2012
17	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2012 reading	10.51	consumption	2012
18	NauruNRUMicronesia	9.72	consumption	2012.69
19	PeruPERSouth America · 2012 reading	9.53	income	2012
20	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2012 reading	9.11	income	2012
21	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2012 reading	8.54	income	2012
22	RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2012 reading	8.37	income	2012
23	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2012 reading	7.88	income	2012
24	PanamaPANCentral America · 2012 reading	7.44	income	2012
25	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2012 reading	7.29	income	2012

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.41. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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.

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