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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 71.62; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.78. Against the 2020 compilation, 54 values changed (16 up, 38 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestCentral African Republic

71.62

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, 2021 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.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading71.62consumption2021
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa69.17consumption2021.75
3NigerNERWestern Africa60.49consumption2021.5
4KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading46.45consumption2021
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa42.06consumption2021.67
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa39.86consumption2021.75
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading38.64consumption2021
8MaliMLIWestern Africa36.10consumption2021.57
9TogoTGOWestern Africa34.66consumption2021.63
10BeninBENWestern Africa27.22consumption2021.75
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa26.69consumption2021.67
12KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading24.98income2021
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa20.83consumption2021.75
14SenegalSENWestern Africa17.89consumption2021.71
15ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading11.23income2021
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2021 reading10.79consumption2021
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2021 reading9.07consumption2021
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading8.56consumption2021
19PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading8.06income2021
20BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading7.46income2021
21KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2021 reading5.65consumption2021
22EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading5.28income2021
23PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading5.19income2021
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading5.13income2021
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2021 reading4.37income2021

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic71.62
  2. 2Madagascar69.17
  3. 3Niger60.49
  4. 4Kenya46.45
  5. 5Burkina Faso42.06

Lowest

  1. 81Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 81Chinashared0.00
  3. 80Malaysia0.01
  4. 79Finland0.02
  5. 78Thailand0.03

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.78. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 54values changed, of 59 in both
  • 16 · 38rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 73 distinct values among 82

    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 82 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (2021). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation?

Central African Republic, at 71.62, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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