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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 54.36; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.93. Against the 2022 compilation, 48 values changed (15 up, 33 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

54.36

Lowest3 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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa54.36consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa38.55consumption2023.77
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading17.02income2023
4GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading9.66income2023
5ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading8.63income2023
6TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading7.29consumption2023
7IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading6.72consumption2023
8PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading5.88income2023
9GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading5.83consumption2023
10PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading5.32income2023
11EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading4.68income2023
12El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading4.64income2023
13UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading4.07income2023
14BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading3.80income2023
15PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading3.73income2023
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading2.82income2023
17KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading2.74consumption2023
18IndiaINDSouthern Asia2.57consumption2023.58
19IranIRNSouthern Asia2.49consumption2023.23
20ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading2.39income2023
21PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading2.07consumption2023
22ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2023 reading1.93consumption2023
23Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading1.54income2023
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading1.27income2023
25United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading1.20income2023

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda54.36
  2. 2Rwanda38.55
  3. 3Honduras17.02
  4. 4Guatemala9.66
  5. 5Colombia8.63

Lowest

  1. 58Thailandshared0.00
  2. 58Sloveniashared0.00
  3. 58Czechiashared0.00
  4. 57Cyprus0.01
  5. 55Franceshared0.07

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.93. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 48values changed, of 51 in both
  • 15 · 33rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− 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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 53 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.09. 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 60 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 (2023). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount/2023

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest extreme poverty ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation?

Uganda, at 54.36, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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