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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2013 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2013; 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, 2013 compilation covers 78 countries. Burundi is highest, at 18.890000; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000000. The middle country reads 0.240000. Against the 2012 compilation, 58 values changed (24 up, 34 down), 12 countries joined, 21 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2013

HighestBurundi

18.890000

Lowest4 countries share it

0.000000

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, 2013 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2013 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
BurundiBDIEastern Africa18.890000consumption2013.5
RwandaRWAEastern Africa13.510000consumption2013.75
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2013 reading6.140000consumption2013
MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2013 reading4.760000consumption2013
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2013 reading4.240000income2013
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2013 reading2.670000income2013
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2013 reading2.540000income2013
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2013 reading1.820000consumption2013
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2013 reading1.790000income2013
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2013 reading1.790000consumption2013
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2013 reading1.770000income2013
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2013 reading1.340000income2013
PeruPERSouth America · 2013 reading1.240000income2013
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia1.060000consumption2013.5
BrazilBRASouth America · 2013 reading0.950000income2013
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2013 reading0.880000income2013
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2013 reading0.780000income2013
PanamaPANCentral America · 2013 reading0.780000income2013
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2013 reading0.720000income2013
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2013 reading0.710000income2013
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2013 reading0.700000consumption2013
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2013 reading0.680000income2013
BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2013 reading0.610000income2013
SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2013 reading0.600000income2013
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2013 reading0.570000income2013

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2013 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Burundi18.890000
  2. Rwanda13.510000
  3. Djibouti6.140000
  4. Micronesia4.760000
  5. Honduras4.240000

Lowest

  1. Russiashared0.000000
  2. Malaysiashared0.000000
  3. Maltashared0.000000
  4. United Arab Emiratesshared0.000000
  5. Belarus0.000002

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.240000. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since the 2012 compilation

  • +12 / −21countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 66 in both
  • 24 · 34rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

Rose most

  • Ireland0.130000 → 0.420000+0.290000
  • Serbia2.400000 → 2.670000+0.270000
  • Denmark0.000000 → 0.220000+0.220000
  • Italy0.660000 → 0.880000+0.220000
  • Estonia0.320000 → 0.520000+0.200000

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Chile+ Fiji+ Micronesia+ Morocco+ Malaysia+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Taiwan+ Samoa− Albania− Bhutan− DR Congo− Egypt− Ghana− Guinea− Haiti− Iraq− South Korea− Laos− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− Mexico− Mongolia− Mauritius− Nigeria− Nauru− Philippines− Solomon Islands− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2013, from 2013 to 2013.

  • 54 distinct values among 78

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 10 decimals. 5 countries share 0.010000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 78 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2013). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2013 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2013

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