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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2016; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation covers 84 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 76.50; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 1.34. Against the 2015 compilation, 59 values changed (21 up, 38 down), 19 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2016

HighestSouth Sudan

76.50

Lowest4 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, 2016 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa76.50consumption2016.5
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa71.65consumption2016.31
3RwandaRWAEastern Africa63.84consumption2016.77
4UgandaUGAEastern Africa60.11consumption2016.5
5EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa44.53consumption2016.17
6GhanaGHAWestern Africa39.03consumption2016.75
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2016 reading33.56consumption2016
8HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading19.84income2016
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2016 reading19.51consumption2016
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2016 reading18.05consumption2016
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2016 reading10.47consumption2016
12ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2016 reading10.05income2016
13SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2016 reading8.09income2016
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2016 reading7.97consumption2016
15PeruPERSouth America · 2016 reading7.47income2016
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2016 reading7.17income2016
17BrazilBRASouth America · 2016 reading6.49income2016
18El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2016 reading5.77income2016
19North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2016 reading5.69income2016
20RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2016 reading5.22income2016
21EcuadorECUSouth America · 2016 reading4.97income2016
22PanamaPANCentral America · 2016 reading4.80income2016
23MexicoMEXCentral America · 2016 reading4.44income2016
24ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2016 reading4.17income2016
25Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2016 reading3.81consumption2016

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan76.50
  2. 2Malawi71.65
  3. 3Rwanda63.84
  4. 4Uganda60.11
  5. 5Eswatini44.53

Lowest

  1. 81Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 81Icelandshared0.00
  3. 81Czechiashared0.00
  4. 81Belarusshared0.00
  5. 80Switzerland0.04

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.34. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since the 2015 compilation

What changed between the 2015 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −22countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 65 in both
  • 21 · 38rose · fell
  • 6unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− 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

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 2016, from 2016 to 2016.

  • 74 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 4 countries share 0.00. 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 84 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 (2016). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2016

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation?

South Sudan, at 76.50, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2016 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, 2016 compilation the newest?

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

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