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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2012; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation covers 87 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 25.4300; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.3000. Against the 2011 compilation, 59 values changed (26 up, 33 down), 22 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2012

HighestDR Congo

25.4300

Lowest4 countries share it

0.0000

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, 2012 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, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa25.4300consumption2012.4
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa16.0800consumption2012.73
UgandaUGAEastern Africa9.9700consumption2012.45
GhanaGHAWestern Africa7.9200consumption2012.8
HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading7.5200consumption2012
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading6.4900consumption2012
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia5.6300consumption2012.79
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading5.5800income2012
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa4.7900consumption2012.5
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading2.7500income2012
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2012 reading2.5500consumption2012
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2012 reading2.4000income2012
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2012 reading2.3800income2012
GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2012 reading2.1800consumption2012
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2012 reading2.1700income2012
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading2.1000income2012
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading1.7600consumption2012
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2012 reading1.6900income2012
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.6600consumption2012.25
PeruPERSouth America · 2012 reading1.4400income2012
ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading1.3000consumption2012
BrazilBRASouth America · 2012 reading1.2500income2012
PanamaPANCentral America · 2012 reading1.2500income2012
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2012 reading1.0700income2012
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2012 reading1.0300income2012

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. DR Congo25.4300
  2. Madagascar16.0800
  3. Uganda9.9700
  4. Ghana7.9200
  5. Haiti7.5200

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared0.0000
  2. Russiashared0.0000
  3. Denmarkshared0.0000
  4. Belarusshared0.0000
  5. Cyprus0.0004

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

032011 → 2012

Since the 2011 compilation

What changed between the 2011 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −17countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 65 in both
  • 26 · 33rose · fell
  • 6unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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 2012, from 2012 to 2012.

  • 62 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 6 countries share 0.0100. 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 87 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 (2012). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2012

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07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 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, 2012 compilation?

DR Congo, at 25.4300, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2012 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, 2012 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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