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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2016; 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, 2016 compilation covers 84 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 25.94; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 0.22. Against the 2015 compilation, 56 values changed (26 up, 30 down), 19 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2016

HighestSouth Sudan

25.94

Lowest5 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, 2016 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa25.94consumption2016.5
MalawiMWIEastern Africa15.89consumption2016.31
RwandaRWAEastern Africa13.23consumption2016.77
UgandaUGAEastern Africa11.86consumption2016.5
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa9.17consumption2016.17
GhanaGHAWestern Africa8.72consumption2016.75
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading4.46income2016
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2016 reading4.04consumption2016
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2016 reading3.46income2016
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2016 reading2.24income2016
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2016 reading1.99income2016
BrazilBRASouth America · 2016 reading1.31income2016
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2016 reading1.27income2016
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2016 reading1.25income2016
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2016 reading1.16consumption2016
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2016 reading1.15consumption2016
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2016 reading1.07consumption2016
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2016 reading1.01income2016
PeruPERSouth America · 2016 reading1.00income2016
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe · 2016 reading0.96income2016
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2016 reading0.86income2016
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2016 reading0.84income2016
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2016 reading0.75income2016
HungaryHUNEastern Europe · 2016 reading0.67income2016
BarbadosBRBCaribbean · 2016 reading0.63consumption2016

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. South Sudan25.94
  2. Malawi15.89
  3. Rwanda13.23
  4. Uganda11.86
  5. Eswatini9.17

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared0.00
  2. Maldivesshared0.00
  3. Icelandshared0.00
  4. Czechiashared0.00
  5. Belarusshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.22. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since the 2015 compilation

  • +19 / −22countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 65 in both
  • 26 · 30rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− 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

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 2016, from 2016 to 2016.

  • 58 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 5 countries share 0.01. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 84 countries has every column.

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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World Bank Group (2016). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2016 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2016

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