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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 31.8400; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.1900. Against the 2019 compilation, 57 values changed (31 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

31.8400

Lowest5 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, 2020 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading31.8400consumption2020
BurundiBDIEastern Africa17.5200consumption2020.15
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading7.5300income2020
KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading5.8200consumption2020
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading4.6500income2020
GambiaGMBWestern Africa2.3500consumption2020.08
PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading1.4700income2020
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading1.3500income2020
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2020 reading1.2900consumption2020
Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading0.7600income2020
ChileCHLSouth America · 2020 reading0.7000income2020
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.6700income2020
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.6200income2020
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading0.5900income2020
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2020 reading0.5600income2020
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.5300income2020
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand · 2020 reading0.5200income2020
AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2020 reading0.5000income2020
ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading0.5000consumption2020
BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading0.4900income2020
MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading0.4800income2020
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading0.4700consumption2020
SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.4300income2020
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading0.4100consumption2020
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe · 2020 reading0.3900income2020

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. DR Congo31.8400
  2. Burundi17.5200
  3. Kosovo7.5300
  4. Kenya5.8200
  5. Colombia4.6500

Lowest

  1. Ukraineshared0.0000
  2. Sloveniashared0.0000
  3. Luxembourgshared0.0000
  4. Chinashared0.0000
  5. Belarusshared0.0000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.1900. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 62 in both
  • 31 · 26rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 46 distinct values among 71

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 5 countries share 0.0100. 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 71 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 (2020). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2020

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07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 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, 2020 compilation?

DR Congo, at 31.8400, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2020 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, 2020 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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