Latest available · compiled 2012

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 — 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, 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.