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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2010; 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, 2010 compilation covers 87 countries. Zambia is highest, at 24.3600; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.3000. Against the 2009 compilation, 57 values changed (25 up, 32 down), 25 countries joined, 21 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2010

HighestZambia

24.3600

Lowest4 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, 2010 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2010 reading24.3600consumption2010
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2010 reading23.7500consumption2010
MalawiMWIEastern Africa20.2200consumption2010.23
RwandaRWAEastern Africa16.6300consumption2010.83
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2010 reading13.7500consumption2010
GambiaGMBWestern Africa5.0800consumption2010.08
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa5.0200consumption2010.5
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2010 reading4.7700income2010
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa · 2010 reading4.5500consumption2010
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4.3000consumption2010.5
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2010 reading3.8300income2010
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2010 reading3.7300consumption2010
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2010 reading2.8400consumption2010
VanuatuVUTMelanesia · 2010 reading2.8400consumption2010
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2010 reading2.6800income2010
ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2010 reading2.4700consumption2010
PeruPERSouth America · 2010 reading1.6400income2010
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2010 reading1.5000income2010
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2010 reading1.4900consumption2010
NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.4800consumption2010.17
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2010 reading1.3600consumption2010
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2010 reading1.3500income2010
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2010 reading1.3300income2010
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia1.3300consumption2010.5
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2010 reading1.2400consumption2010

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Zambia24.3600
  2. Guinea-Bissau23.7500
  3. Malawi20.2200
  4. Rwanda16.6300
  5. Madagascar13.7500

Lowest

  1. Ukraineshared0.0000
  2. Montenegroshared0.0000
  3. Denmarkshared0.0000
  4. Belarusshared0.0000
  5. Luxembourg0.0004

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.3000. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since the 2009 compilation

  • +25 / −21countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 62 in both
  • 25 · 32rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ China+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jordan+ South Korea+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Tunisia+ Tuvalu+ Taiwan+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu+ South Africa+ Zambia− Burkina Faso− Bolivia− Brazil− Botswana− Chile− India− Iran− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mali− Namibia− Nicaragua− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Sudan− South Sudan− Eswatini− Syria− Tajikistan− Tonga− Uganda

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 2010, from 2010 to 2010.

  • 62 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 6 countries share 0.0200. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 87 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2010). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2010 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2010

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