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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries. Zimbabwe is highest, at 44.66; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.92. Against the 2016 compilation, 61 values changed (21 up, 40 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestZimbabwe

44.66

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, 2017 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, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2017 reading44.66consumption2017
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa41.86consumption2017.14
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading25.36consumption2017
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2017 reading19.33income2017
5KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2017 reading15.22income2017
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading14.76consumption2017
7São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading13.01consumption2017
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2017 reading11.07consumption2017
9MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading10.27consumption2017
10ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2017 reading9.53income2017
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2017 reading8.19consumption2017
12PeruPERSouth America · 2017 reading7.31income2017
13BrazilBRASouth America · 2017 reading6.96income2017
14SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2017 reading6.65income2017
15BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2017 reading6.41income2017
16North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2017 reading5.64income2017
17RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2017 reading4.90income2017
18MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2017 reading4.65income2017
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2017 reading4.55income2017
=20EcuadorECUSouth America · 2017 reading4.28income2017
=20PanamaPANCentral America · 2017 reading4.28income2017
22GabonGABMiddle Africa · 2017 reading3.81consumption2017
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa3.11consumption2017.75
24IranIRNSouthern Asia2.67consumption2017.23
25BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2017 reading2.61consumption2017

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Zimbabwe44.66
  2. 2Lesotho41.86
  3. 3Djibouti25.36
  4. 4Honduras19.33
  5. 5Kosovo15.22

Lowest

  1. 76Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 76Qatarshared0.00
  3. 76Icelandshared0.00
  4. 76Czechiashared0.00
  5. 74Franceshared0.02

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.92. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 68 in both
  • 21 · 40rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 68 distinct values among 79

    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 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 (2017). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2017

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation?

Zimbabwe, at 44.66, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2017 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, 2017 compilation the newest?

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

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