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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 85.32; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.64. Against the 2019 compilation, 58 values changed (31 up, 27 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

85.32

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading85.32consumption2020
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa74.20consumption2020.15
3KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading44.43consumption2020
4GambiaGMBWestern Africa22.00consumption2020.08
5KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading16.78income2020
6ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading15.76income2020
7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2020 reading11.98consumption2020
8PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading10.31income2020
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading9.85consumption2020
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading9.38consumption2020
11ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading8.93consumption2020
12EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading8.44income2020
13IranIRNSouthern Asia4.64consumption2020.23
14MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading4.26income2020
15BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading4.25income2020
16Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading3.35income2020
17BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading2.77income2020
18ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading2.56income2020
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2020 reading2.43income2020
20MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2020 reading2.24income2020
21ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading2.20income2020
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading2.04income2020
23ChileCHLSouth America · 2020 reading1.72income2020
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2020 reading1.52consumption2020
=25Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2020 reading1.30income2020

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo85.32
  2. 2Burundi74.20
  3. 3Kenya44.43
  4. 4Gambia22.00
  5. 5Kosovo16.78

Lowest

  1. 68Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 68Luxembourgshared0.00
  3. 68Chinashared0.00
  4. 68Belarusshared0.00
  5. 67Czechia0.01

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.64. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 62 in both
  • 31 · 27rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 60 distinct values among 71

    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 71 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 (2020). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2020

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation?

DR Congo, at 85.32, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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