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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; 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, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Angola is highest, at 8.9300; 8 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.2150. Against the 2017 compilation, 61 values changed (22 up, 39 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestAngola

8.9300

Lowest8 countries share it

0.0000

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, 2018 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa8.9300consumption2018.17
NigerNERWestern Africa8.6800consumption2018.57
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa7.2700consumption2017.92
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading7.0900income2018
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa6.7400consumption2018.5
ChadTCDMiddle Africa5.3600consumption2018.5
TogoTGOWestern Africa5.2800consumption2018.43
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa4.3400consumption2018.75
BeninBENWestern Africa4.3200consumption2018.5
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2018 reading4.2600consumption2018
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading4.0900income2018
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa3.6300consumption2018.43
MaliMLIWestern Africa2.5300consumption2018.57
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading2.2200income2018
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa1.8700consumption2018.5
BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading1.4900income2018
SenegalSENWestern Africa1.3600consumption2018.5
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2018 reading1.3200consumption2018
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2018 reading1.2200income2018
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2018 reading1.0300income2018
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.0200consumption2018.42
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2018 reading0.8700income2018
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2018 reading0.8500income2018
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2018 reading0.8300income2018
GuineaGINWestern Africa0.8100consumption2018.5

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Angola8.9300
  2. Niger8.6800
  3. Tanzania7.2700
  4. Kosovo7.0900
  5. Burkina Faso6.7400

Lowest

  1. Thailandshared0.0000
  2. Sloveniashared0.0000
  3. Malaysiashared0.0000
  4. Kazakhstanshared0.0000
  5. Irelandshared0.0000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.2150. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 67 in both
  • 22 · 39rose · fell
  • 6unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe

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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 62 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 8 countries share 0.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (2018). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2018

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