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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2015; 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, 2015 compilation covers 87 countries. Zambia is highest, at 25.33; 8 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.28. Against the 2014 compilation, 58 values changed (27 up, 31 down), 22 countries joined, 19 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2015

HighestZambia

25.33

Lowest8 countries share it

0.00

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, 2015 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, 2015 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2015 reading25.33consumption2015
BeninBENWestern Africa · 2015 reading20.13consumption2015
TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2015 reading16.31consumption2015
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2015 reading8.52consumption2015
KenyaKENEastern Africa5.34consumption2015.67
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa4.51consumption2015.5
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa4.30consumption2015.27
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4.07consumption2015.5
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2015 reading3.46income2015
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2015 reading3.32income2015
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa2.81consumption2015.85
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2015 reading2.21income2015
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading1.67consumption2015
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2015 reading1.66income2015
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2015 reading1.62income2015
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa · 2015 reading1.50consumption2015
GambiaGMBWestern Africa1.47consumption2015.31
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading1.46consumption2015
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2015 reading1.32income2015
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2015 reading1.28consumption2015
BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2015 reading1.17income2015
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading1.17income2015
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2015 reading1.14income2015
PeruPERSouth America · 2015 reading1.07income2015
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2015 reading1.04consumption2015

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Zambia25.33
  2. Benin20.13
  3. Togo16.31
  4. Côte d’Ivoire8.52
  5. Kenya5.34

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared0.00
  2. Malaysiashared0.00
  3. Moldovashared0.00
  4. Saint Luciashared0.00
  5. Kazakhstanshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.28. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since the 2014 compilation

  • +22 / −19countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 65 in both
  • 27 · 31rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Botswana+ Chile+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cabo Verde+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Zambia− Argentina− Australia− Burkina Faso− Cameroon− Comoros− Guatemala− South Korea− Liberia− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Niger− Nicaragua− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Vietnam− Yemen− South Africa

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 2015, from 2015 to 2015.

  • 63 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 8 countries share 0.00. 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 (2015). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2015 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2015

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