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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; 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, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 8.97000; 7 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00000. The middle country reads 0.17000. Against the 2016 compilation, 60 values changed (27 up, 33 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestLesotho

8.97000

Lowest7 countries share it

0.00000

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, 2017 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa8.97000consumption2017.14
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2017 reading6.30000consumption2017
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2017 reading5.60000income2017
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading4.57000consumption2017
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2017 reading4.00000income2017
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2017 reading2.68000income2017
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2017 reading2.03000income2017
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2017 reading1.57000income2017
BrazilBRASouth America · 2017 reading1.49000income2017
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2017 reading1.45000income2017
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2017 reading1.40000income2017
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2017 reading1.39000consumption2017
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading1.22000consumption2017
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2017 reading1.02000income2017
PeruPERSouth America · 2017 reading0.99000income2017
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading0.91000consumption2017
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2017 reading0.91000income2017
PanamaPANCentral America · 2017 reading0.84000income2017
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2017 reading0.84000income2017
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2017 reading0.73000income2017
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2017 reading0.68000income2017
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading0.51000consumption2017
SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2017 reading0.44000income2017
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2017 reading0.40000income2017
GabonGABMiddle Africa · 2017 reading0.40000consumption2017

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Lesotho8.97000
  2. Zimbabwe6.30000
  3. Kosovo5.60000
  4. Djibouti4.57000
  5. Honduras4.00000

Lowest

  1. Ukraineshared0.00000
  2. Thailandshared0.00000
  3. Sloveniashared0.00000
  4. Qatarshared0.00000
  5. Icelandshared0.00000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.17000. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 68 in both
  • 27 · 33rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Slovakia0.96000 → 0.11000−0.85000
  • Serbia3.46000 → 2.68000−0.78000
  • Honduras4.46000 → 4.00000−0.46000
  • Bolivia1.99000 → 1.57000−0.42000
  • Hungary0.67000 → 0.33000−0.34000
+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− 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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 51 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 7 countries share 0.00000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 79 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2017). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2017

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