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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Niger is highest, at 59.01; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 1.01. Against the 2017 compilation, 58 values changed (22 up, 36 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestNiger

59.01

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, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa59.01consumption2018.57
2TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa51.35consumption2017.92
3Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa47.68consumption2018.5
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa41.86consumption2018.5
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2018 reading41.49consumption2018
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa39.29consumption2018.17
7BeninBENWestern Africa37.18consumption2018.5
8Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa37.10consumption2018.43
9TogoTGOWestern Africa35.31consumption2018.43
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa34.19consumption2018.75
11MaliMLIWestern Africa29.38consumption2018.57
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa21.67consumption2018.5
13KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading20.71income2018
14HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading19.85income2018
15SenegalSENWestern Africa19.15consumption2018.5
16PakistanPAKSouthern Asia16.52consumption2018.5
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia15.66consumption2018.42
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading12.47consumption2018
19GuineaGINWestern Africa11.65consumption2018.5
20GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2018 reading10.99consumption2018
21ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading9.83income2018
22PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading8.28income2018
23BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading6.91income2018
24PeruPERSouth America · 2018 reading6.08income2018
25KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2018 reading5.91consumption2018

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger59.01
  2. 2Tanzania51.35
  3. 3Burkina Faso47.68
  4. 4Chad41.86
  5. 5Sierra Leone41.49

Lowest

  1. 93Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 93United Arab Emiratesshared0.00
  3. 92Czechia0.01
  4. 89Moldovashared0.02
  5. 89Franceshared0.02

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.01. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 67 in both
  • 22 · 36rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− 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.

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 80 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.10. 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 94 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 (2018). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2018

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation?

Niger, at 59.01, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2018 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, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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