Latest available · compiled 2020

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 — 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, 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.