Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Latest available · compiled 2022

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; 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, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 28.730000; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000000. The middle country reads 0.210000. Against the 2021 compilation, 51 values changed (24 up, 27 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

Download CSVCite this edition
Share

Share this page

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestMozambique

28.730000

Lowest4 countries share it

0.000000

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, 2022 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa28.730000consumption2022.08
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading26.130000consumption2022
KenyaKENEastern Africa5.690000consumption2022.67
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa5.610000consumption2022.71
ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2022 reading5.470000consumption2022
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2022 reading4.220000income2022
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2.160000consumption2022.85
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2022 reading2.100000income2022
SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2022 reading1.380000consumption2022
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2022 reading1.110000income2022
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2022 reading0.980000consumption2022
BrazilBRASouth America · 2022 reading0.920000income2022
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2022 reading0.870000income2022
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2022 reading0.860000consumption2022
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2022 reading0.830000income2022
SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2022 reading0.730000income2022
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2022 reading0.670000income2022
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2022 reading0.660000income2022
PeruPERSouth America · 2022 reading0.630000income2022
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2022 reading0.620000income2022
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa0.600000consumption2022.61
GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2022 reading0.470000income2022
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2022 reading0.440000income2022
SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2022 reading0.410000income2022
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading0.370000consumption2022

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mozambique28.730000
  2. Zambia26.130000
  3. Kenya5.690000
  4. Nigeria5.610000
  5. Chad5.470000

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared0.000000
  2. Czechiashared0.000000
  3. Chinashared0.000000
  4. Switzerlandshared0.000000
  5. Cyprus0.000003

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.210000. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 56 in both
  • 24 · 27rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kosovo9.130000 → 4.220000−4.910000
  • Brazil1.520000 → 0.920000−0.600000
  • Colombia2.510000 → 2.100000−0.410000
  • Georgia1.180000 → 0.980000−0.200000
  • Romania0.520000 → 0.330000−0.190000
+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

Read before you use

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • 54 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 10 decimals. 5 countries share 0.030000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2022). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2022

0622 held

Other editions