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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2007; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty severity — the squared poverty gap — measures how deep poverty runs below $3.00 a day while giving the most weight to the very poorest. Each poor person’s shortfall is squared before it is averaged, so a country where a few people are extremely poor reads worse than one where many sit just below the line.

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation covers 73 countries. Niger is highest, at 22.1800; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.2200. Against the 2006 compilation, 57 values changed (19 up, 38 down), 14 countries joined, 23 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2007

HighestNiger

22.1800

Lowest3 countries share it

0.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
NigerNERWestern Africa22.1800consumption2007.31
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2007 reading12.5400consumption2007
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2007 reading12.2200consumption2007
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading7.4900consumption2007
GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2007 reading6.8400consumption2007
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2007 reading4.8100income2007
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2007 reading4.7400consumption2007
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2007 reading3.9400consumption2007
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading3.9300consumption2007
PeruPERSouth America · 2007 reading3.6500income2007
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2007 reading3.6200income2007
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2007 reading3.5400consumption2007
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia3.4100consumption2007.23
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa3.3300consumption2007.33
PanamaPANCentral America · 2007 reading2.5100income2007
BrazilBRASouth America · 2007 reading2.4200income2007
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2007 reading2.2800income2007
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2007 reading2.1700consumption2007
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia2.1200consumption2007.5
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2007 reading2.1000income2007
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2007 reading1.3400income2007
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2007 reading1.0600income2007
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2007 reading1.0200income2007
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2007 reading0.8000consumption2007
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2007 reading0.6700income2007

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Niger22.1800
  2. Tanzania12.5400
  3. Liberia12.2200
  4. Timor-Leste7.4900
  5. Guinea6.8400

Lowest

  1. Taiwanshared0.0000
  2. Luxembourgshared0.0000
  3. Denmarkshared0.0000
  4. Germany0.0001
  5. Sloveniashared0.0100

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.2200. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since the 2006 compilation

  • +14 / −23countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 59 in both
  • 19 · 38rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Cameroon+ Cabo Verde+ Guinea+ Laos+ Liberia+ Mongolia+ Niger+ Pakistan+ Tajikistan+ Timor-Leste+ Taiwan+ Tanzania− Burundi− Chile− Guatemala− Iran− Iraq− Jordan− Kiribati− South Korea− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mexico− North Macedonia− Mali− Mauritius− Malaysia− Philippines− Seychelles− Syria− Togo− Venezuela− Vietnam− Kosovo− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2007, from 2007 to 2007.

  • 50 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 7 decimals. 5 countries share 0.0100. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2007). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2007 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2007

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