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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2003; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation covers 69 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 37.760; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 0.630. Against the 2002 compilation, 42 values changed (22 up, 20 down), 26 countries joined, 25 left.

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2003

HighestUzbekistan

37.760

Lowest2 countries share it

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 69 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2003 reading37.760consumption2003
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2003 reading17.410consumption2003
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa17.380consumption2003.25
ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2003 reading16.000consumption2003
BeninBENWestern Africa · 2003 reading15.150consumption2003
GambiaGMBWestern Africa12.590consumption2003.29
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa10.930consumption2003.67
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2003 reading9.580income2003
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa9.580consumption2003.67
NepalNPLSouthern Asia9.100consumption2003.25
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2003 reading8.650consumption2003
VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2003 reading7.790income2003
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2003 reading6.740income2003
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2003 reading6.380consumption2003
PanamaPANCentral America · 2003 reading4.200income2003
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2003 reading4.180income2003
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2003 reading4.120income2003
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading4.050consumption2003
PeruPERSouth America · 2003 reading3.830income2003
BrazilBRASouth America · 2003 reading3.710income2003
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2003 reading3.400consumption2003
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading2.770income2003
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2003 reading2.370income2003
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2003 reading1.820income2003
Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2003 reading1.670income2003

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Uzbekistan37.760
  2. Burkina Faso17.410
  3. Sierra Leone17.380
  4. Chad16.000
  5. Benin15.150

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared0.000
  2. Azerbaijanshared0.000
  3. Iceland0.001
  4. Polandshared0.010
  5. Hungaryshared0.010

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.630. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since the 2002 compilation

What changed between the 2002 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +26 / −25countries joined / left
  • 42values changed, of 43 in both
  • 22 · 20rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Austria+ Belgium+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bulgaria+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Denmark+ Ecuador+ Spain+ Finland+ Gambia+ Iceland+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Norway+ Nepal+ Philippines+ Portugal+ Sierra Leone+ Syria+ Chad+ Tajikistan+ Kosovo− Albania− Bolivia− Botswana− Switzerland− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Czechia− Djibouti− Fiji− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Jordan− Laos− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Thailand− Uganda− Vietnam− Samoa− 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.

The site’s method
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2003, from 2003 to 2003.

  • 60 distinct values among 69

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 3 countries share 0.100. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 69 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2003). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2003

07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty severity ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation?

Uzbekistan, at 37.760, of the 69 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation cover?

69.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 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 Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2003 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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