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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2015; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation covers 87 countries. Zambia is highest, at 67.89; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 1.20. Against the 2014 compilation, 58 values changed (24 up, 34 down), 22 countries joined, 19 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2015

HighestZambia

67.89

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, 2015 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2015 reading67.89consumption2015
2BeninBENWestern Africa · 2015 reading65.82consumption2015
3TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2015 reading61.70consumption2015
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2015 reading46.60consumption2015
5KenyaKENEastern Africa37.65consumption2015.67
6NigeriaNGAWestern Africa35.77consumption2015.5
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa33.00consumption2015.5
8NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa22.86consumption2015.27
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading21.59consumption2015
10BotswanaBWASouthern Africa21.37consumption2015.85
11HondurasHNDCentral America · 2015 reading19.93income2015
12MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading18.24consumption2015
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa17.10consumption2015.31
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia16.91consumption2015.5
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading14.63income2015
16Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa · 2015 reading14.60consumption2015
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2015 reading13.33consumption2015
18KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2015 reading10.99consumption2015
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2015 reading10.60consumption2015
20ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2015 reading10.20income2015
21SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2015 reading8.41income2015
22PeruPERSouth America · 2015 reading7.96income2015
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2015 reading7.60income2015
24North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2015 reading7.00income2015
25BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2015 reading6.21income2015

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Zambia67.89
  2. 2Benin65.82
  3. 3Togo61.70
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire46.60
  5. 5Kenya37.65

Lowest

  1. 86Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 86Belarusshared0.00
  3. 85Czechia0.01
  4. 83Icelandshared0.03
  5. 83Switzerlandshared0.03

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.20. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since the 2014 compilation

What changed between the 2014 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −19countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 65 in both
  • 24 · 34rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Botswana+ Chile+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cabo Verde+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Zambia− Argentina− Australia− Burkina Faso− Cameroon− Comoros− Guatemala− South Korea− Liberia− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Niger− Nicaragua− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Vietnam− Yemen− South Africa

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 2015, from 2015 to 2015.

  • 77 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.05. 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 87 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 (2015). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2015

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation?

Zambia, at 67.89, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2015 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, 2015 compilation the newest?

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

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