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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 (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. A higher value is the worse result.

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

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +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. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • 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.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

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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07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty severity ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation?

Angola, at 8.9300, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2018 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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